Justice in Moscow?

The article explores Russians’ satisfaction with their experiences in court and with the legal system more generally. The analysis draws on a nationally representative survey of Russians, fielded by the Levada Center in 2010. The results show that most court veterans believe that the decision in their case was just, and that the judge treated them well. But these positive feelings do not extend beyond their case. Russians who have no court experience tend to have more favorable views about the legal system than do court veterans. These findings serve to remind us of the difficulty of building confidence in the legal system in post-Soviet Russia.     

“I was a homo thug,now I'm just homo”: Gay gang members’ desistance and persistence

In a growing body of research, the methods of and motivations for gang desistance are being investigated, spurred in part by concerns about the long-term negative effects of gang membership. Despite recent calls for scholarship that is more inclusive of LGBTQ populations and attentive to issues of sexual identity, however, most gang research remains overwhelmingly heteronormative. In this study, I use in-depth interviews with 48 self-identified gay male gang members to explore how and why they have desisted from or persisted in their gangs, as well as explore how desistance or persistence has affected their self-perceptions, lives, and activities. Because not all have left their gangs, I examine the markers in young men's narratives that signal shifts away from—but sometimes also toward—their gangs, as well as their zigzagging paths out of gang involvement. As gang structure and composition hold importance for their members’ experiences, I use a comparative approach by contrasting men in predominantly straight gangs with those in gay gangs. Set within a heterosexist cultural context, the structure of the gang combines with individual shifts in identity to encourage pathways out of straight gangs and pathways into continued involvement with gay gangs.     

US Women Federal Court Judges Appointed by President Carter

There is considerable disagreement as to whether any gender differences on the bench are symbolic, substantive, or both. This paper, based on never-before published surveys and personal interviews conducted in the early 1980s, contributes to that discussion by describing what women appointed to the federal bench by President Carter between 1976 and 1980 had to say about gender differences in their first years in office. I conclude that these early experiences and comments by women on the bench are still relevant today and presage much of the research on judicial gender which has followed.

MASCULINITIES,PERSISTENCE, AND DESISTANCE

In life‐course criminology, when gender has been the focus of study, it has predominantly been treated as a variable. Studies that explore the gendered nature of criminal careers through the lived experiences of offenders are rare, even though these studies can make important contributions to our understanding of crime and the life course. Analyzing qualitative data, this article uses life‐history narratives of a small sample of male juvenile delinquents (N = 25), born in 1969–1974, to explore the possible link among masculinities, persistence, and desistance from crime. The findings of the study suggest that processes of persistence and desistance are imbued with age‐specific norms of what it means to “be a man” and successfully do masculinity in different stages of life. Analyzing these gender‐specific practices gives a deepened understanding of processes that underlie the offenders’ lives as they go through stages of continuity and change in crime. The findings of the study further suggest a complex intersection between gendered biographies and gendered structures, with fruitful contributions to life‐course criminology. The implications of these findings are discussed.     

高速公路交警如何应对突发事件媒体采访

基层一线高速公路交警对于突发事件媒体采访抱有抵触情绪,不敢说、不想说、怕说错成为限制交警正常发挥水平的瓶颈,不利于高速公路交警良好形象的树立和交通管理工作的顺利开展。针对这种情况,作者就应对突发事件媒体采访时高速公路交警的心态调整进行了探讨,并提出了基本的应对策略和所应注意的问题,旨在提高基层民警突发事件媒体采访的应对能力,能给实际公安工作带来帮助。     

Compromising the public good? Civil society as beneficiary of gambling revenue

Profits from legal gambling are often channelled to good causes. This system embeds the predicament of whether citizens’ potentially problematic gambling activities should be a source of funding for the public good. In this article, this dilemma is unfolded by the receivers of public grants that stem from gambling revenues. A total of twenty-three representatives of Civil Society Organizations were interviewed as beneficiaries of the Finnish state-owned gambling monopolies. The article illustrates explicit dependencies and hidden ethical dilemmas, suggesting that CSOs may have limited possibilities of making ethically consistent decisions in view of the origin of their funding.     

刚柔相济的治理工具及其治理优势 ——以行政约谈为例

良好的治理有赖于适宜的治理工具。作为一种新的治理工具,行政约谈具有"刚性"与"柔性"两个不同方面的技术禀赋,在不同治理领域都得到了广泛的应用,发挥了特殊的治理功能。本文以80份约谈案例的文本为研究对象,运用ROST NAT和Nvivo软件,从多个维度呈现行政约谈在不同治理领域中的应用状况,分析行政约谈实践中的刚性与柔性话语,进而从主体、过程以及结果等维度剖析行政约谈的刚性和柔性及其体现,具体涉及主体的权威性和过程的协商性等,最后深入揭示了行政约谈所具有的治理优势及其效能转化逻辑,其中的核心是约谈刚柔相济的技术特性具有灵活应变的治理优势。这不仅有利于深入理解行政约谈的属性及其优劣利弊,也有利于根据具体的场景选择恰当的治理工具,还可以更好地反思和谋划行政约谈的未来发展。