庭前会议：从法理到实证的考察

为了促进集中审理的实现,2012年刑事诉讼法增设了庭前会议程序。从规范分析的视角可见,该程序主要处理与审判相关的程序性争议,具有证据开示、非法证据排除、争点整理、沟通说服、程序分流和调解和解等六项功能。庭前会议既为集中审理做准备,又间接过滤不当起诉,以保障人权。通过样本分析可见,某些地方的司法机关将庭前会议中的证据异议等同于法庭质证,赋予庭前会议以裁决效力,这反映出司法实务部门过度追求效率的倾向。庭前会议制度的生长,应当在程序法定原则之下,既尊重庭审的中心地位,保持庭前会议与庭审的平衡,又充分释放其功能和影响,实现效率的最大化。     

从效率的角度分析我国的审前羁押制度——审前羁押制度研究之效率篇

在审前羁押活动中,以及在整个刑事诉讼活动中,效率一直是我们致力追求的一个目标.借助于经济分析的工具,我们对审前羁押活动进行分析,从中可以发现一些基本的规律.如此的规律运用于现实中将会呼唤在立法中及机构设置上的诸多变化立法中应对效率观念予以充分的重视,应当重视羁押监督机构及羁押过滤机构,应当促使羁押机构走向专业化.     

论大数据智能化侦查应用的特点及其构建

数据极大化和算法智能化是大数据侦查应用的基础和手段,人是大数据在侦查应用中的关键因素.从大数据侦查模式的宏观构建、微观算法目标和智能更新方式的设计到相关的行规、法规的建设等方面都需结合这两个特点展开研发和应用.通过阐述大数据智能化应用在预审业务及其人才培养的双重困境,提出在预审业务及其人才培养中开展大数据智能化侦查应用...     

论民事诉讼审前准备程序的重构

在我国的民事诉讼中,虽然也有审前的准备程序,但从立法和司法的现状来看,该程序存在着严重的功能缺陷,起不到证据整理,争点固定和促成和解的功能。改革审前准备程序应当以公正和效率为价值取向,在诉讼模式的选择上采辩论主义与职权进行主义相结合的模式,审前准备程序的改革不能搞一刀切,在第一审程序中,对不同的案件,应当设计不同的审前准备程序供法院选择适用,对于简单的案件,作必要准备后及时开庭,对于复杂的案件,通常应作充分的审前准备。     

刑事案件普通程序简易审质疑

无论从理论还是实践角度看,刑事案件普通程序简易审既欠缺理论上的合理性,实际上也达不到提高效率的目的,不符合程序正义的要求。要提高刑事审判效率,着眼点应放在侦查阶段、完善多种速决程序、提高法官素质等途径上来。     

FAMILY/CHILD JUDICIAL DISPUTE RESOLUTION (JDR)

This article outlines the Pilot Project in Pre-trial Judicial Settlement Conferencing in Family and Child Welfare/Protection Matters, which was designed and implemented by the authors, The Honourable Judge Nancy A. Flatters of the Provincial Court of Alberta, Family and Youth Court, at Calgary. The article also outlines the basis, rationale, and development underlying this emerging nontraditional judicial approach to the resolution of these disputes and the resulting settlement outcomes.     

Mobilizing drug policy activism: conferences,convergence spaces and ephemeral fixtures in social movement mobilization

This paper explores the role of conferences as “convergence space”: temporary events with lasting material effects. Drawing on three harm reduction conferences occurring between 2011 and 2012, I argue that conferences are both ephemeral fixtures in the landscape of policy activism, and are important nodes through which policy mobilization occurs. Conference spaces provide opportunities for ideas to be shared, produced and advocated. They serve as important sites for the construction of relationships that are required to form and maintain policy advocacy networks and harness political opportunity structures for drug policy reform.     

民事审前程序研究

民事诉讼审前程序对整个民事诉讼程序的维持运转有着重要的作用,其合理与否直接影响着民事审判的公正与效率,但由于观念、设置等原因,我国没有形成一个相对完整的审前程序。因此,在法院案件数量急剧增长、司法资源相对不足的现实压力面前,建立一个适合中国社会现实的、相对完善的审前程序,显得尤为必要和紧迫。     

Exploring the consequences of prolonged pretrial incarceration: evidence from a local jurisdiction in the Philippines

Prolonged pretrial incarceration is a key issue facing the criminal justice systems of many developing countries. Detainees stay in jail for years while undergoing trial but are still unconvicted. However, little is known about the consequences of this troubling phenomenon. Informed by relevant prison and criminological theories, this paper analyses jail official data and qualitative interviews from detainees in a local jurisdiction in the Philippines to understand the magnitude and consequences of prolonged pretrial incarceration. Results suggest the emergence of a legally cynical view of the criminal justice system shared by the detainees. These sentiments likely serve as bases for popular opinions that justify use of violence and vigilante justice on offender populations. Implications on judicial and penal reforms in the Philippines are discussed.     

Can terrorism become a scientific discipline? A diagnostic study

This study offers a meta-information analysis of the state of the art of terrorism research from structural disciplinary perspectives, and by comparisons with several other fields of study. It observes the interrelationship of disciplinary characteristics, specifically, scientific collaboration among terrorism researchers, the growth rate in the number of conferences in the field after 9/11 and the fragmentation of terrorism studies into separate research specialties. These three trends coincide, indicating the growing importance and visibility of terrorism and counter-terrorism studies for government decision-makers and an increase in funding for this research, much of which is channelled in specific desired directions. The new research on terrorism has created disciplinary studies on the subject in the sciences and the life sciences, side by side with traditional social science research. The fragmentation of the field, growing collaboration and the appearance of conference proceedings on terrorism are indicative of the beginnings of an autonomous academic research field, a distinct discipline of study. In great part, these developments are not only due to the infiltration of new subject areas into the network of terrorism research, but also to the expanding number of journals devoted to different aspects of the subject. The road to recognition as an academic discipline depends on whether the various aspects of terrorism studies can be integrated into one comprehensive branch of learning. This ability, in turn, is conditional on the field's cognitive structure or knowledge characteristics, as well as on the shifts and changes in the actual terrorism scene in the future that might influence the nature of research.