Opting Out: The Role of Identity,Capital, and Agency in Prison Visitation

An emerging body of research suggests that prison visitation has implications for better understanding inmate institutional and post-release behavior, but not all inmates receive visits. The goal of the current study is to document barriers to visitation from the inmate perspective and describe the perspectives of those who receive very few or no visits. We also describe how inmate perceptions of visits impacts the way one does time and negotiates subsequent visitation. Using data from qualitative interviews, we find evidence that inmates make willful decisions when negotiating prison visits that are guided by one’s sense of self and further colored by the perceived social and economic strain on families. Our results challenge the perception of a universally positive visitation experience, and introduce the role of inmate choice in selecting into and out of prison visits.     

AN EXPLORATORY STUDY OF SUPERVISED ACCESS AND CUSTODY EXCHANGE SERVICES

The detrimental effect of parental conflict in protracted child custody and visitation disputes is well established in the literature. However, little is known about the impact of parental conflict on children when visitation takes place in a protected setting. Part of a larger study that examined the broader issues related to parental and child involvement in a supervised access and custody exchange service, this article specifically explores the influence of parental participation on child well-being. This exploratory effort reveals that children's level of adjustment remained stable over 6 months of participation while visitation returned to court-ordered levels and interparental contact was precluded by staff intervention.     

浅谈监视居住的适用价值及完善

监视居住执行难,这是侦查机关面临的现实问题。是违法操作,还是“舍弃”不用?为了充分发挥监视居住的作用,为了保证刑事诉讼的顺利进行,有必要对监视居住的适用价值进行探讨,并给予完善。     

“I WANT MY MOMMIES”: THE CRY FOR MINI‐DOMAS TO RECOGNIZE THE BEST INTERESTS OF THE CHILDREN OF SAME‐SEX COUPLES*

In child custody cases, courts will look to the best interests of a child to maintain visitation/custody rights only with the child's biological parent, not third parties. However, with a same‐sex couple, it is inevitable that one parent will not be the biological parent. Thus, when that parent is in a mini‐DOMA state, where same‐sex couples from non‐mini‐DOMA states do not have to be recognized, that parent will be viewed as a third party and lose all visitation/custody rights if the couple separates. This note advocates that mini‐DOMAs allow both the biological and nonbiological parents of a same‐sex couple to have visitation/custody rights of their children if it would be in the best interest of the children to do so.     

对探望权立法的法理分析及其完善

婚姻法修正案设立了探望权制度,填补了婚姻家庭制度的空白。但经过几年的实践,探望权仍很难以实现。而身份权与物权等其他权利有着迥乎不同的自身特性,因此探望权的完善应当在充分考虑传统文化影响和探望权特殊性的原则下进一步完善。     

江泽民对邓小平权力监督制约理论的继承和发展

党的十三届四中全会以来,江泽民在坚持邓小平权力监督制约理论的基础上,结合我国国情,提出了一系列新观点,在以法制权、以德制权、以制度制权及以监督制权等方面,实现了对邓小平权力监督制约理论的发展和创新.     

论股份有限公司制度在清末民初的演进

股份有限公司是一种企业组织形式,又是一种现代企业制度,两是有机统一、不能割裂的。股份有限公司这种企业组织形式自１８７２年引入中国后,与应有的现代企业制度割裂开来,先受洋务派的控制被扭曲为“官督商办制”,后被社会名流用于“救国之策”,直到五四时期中国发展的黄金岁月,才具备现代企业制度的诸机制,开始推动的持续发展。     

信访制度之进退--对信访机构功能定位的思考

近年来,信访问题日益成为我国一项重要的社会问题,围绕着如何恰当定位信访机构所应发挥的功能,如何妥善处理、化解信访事项、信访矛盾,存在着不同的建议、表述和实践,本文就此在分析了信访制度之进退的两种思路之后,认为随着2005年年初新的《信访条例》的颁布,中国的信访制度应在继续完善法制化的基础上迈向法治化。     

刍议我国探望权制度存在的问题及其完善

我国2001年修订的《婚姻法》首次以法律规定形式确定了探望权制度,客观上弥补了我国婚姻法中探望权制度的缺失,但是,随着婚姻法在实践中的应用,探望权制度中的一些规定存在的缺陷、不足之处逐渐显露出来。需要在实践中不断加以完善。     

对婚姻法中有关探望权规定的思考

修订后的婚烟法对探望权做了规定,但在审判和执行过程中,经常会遇到一些婚姻法中没有明确规定的情形。要正确处理好这些问题,就需要正确的理解立法意图,对法律进行弥补操作。