Terrorizing the CPEC: managing transnational militancy in China–Pakistan relations

Despite the continuous risk posed by transnational militancy to Chinese interests in Pakistan, China and Pakistan have improved their cooperation on matters of security and economy in recent years. While transnational militancy in a state dyad is known to increase the potential for conflict, it may also spur interstate cooperation on counter-militancy operations under certain conditions. This article examines the sources of the increase in Sino-Pakistani cooperation in fighting transnational militancy. Pakistan was in the early 2000s the country where the Chinese experienced most militant attacks resulting in the cancellation of Chinese projects in Pakistan despite the dyad’s professed all-weather friendship. More than a decade later, the Chinese are back with a prospected $62 billion in investments in the China–Pakistan economic corridor (CPEC). This overarching incentive has altered the challenge of transnational militancy to their mutual relations from a mostly negative, to a more constructive one requiring costly cooperation. In a quest to secure a continuing relationship in a hazardous landscape, the state dyad is attempting to roll out a concerted security strategy involving the army, navy, paramilitary forces and private security companies. A mix of domestic policies of both states, their foreign policies and the nature of threat posed by the militants facilitates this cooperation.     

大数据背景下“套路贷”犯罪案件侦查机制创新

大数据是一把双刃剑,在推进社会发展的同时,也给犯罪分子提供了犯罪的温床。当前"套路贷"犯罪罪数、资金流规模越发庞大,社会危害性随之扩大。应借鉴特大套路贷犯罪案件的侦破成功经验,与当前犯罪新形势相结合,对"套路贷"犯罪案件侦破难点进行梳理,建大侦查格局、用好大数据技术、用大兵团作战思路精准打击"套路贷"犯罪案件,提升打击"套路贷"犯罪的侦查效能。     

Personal Criminal Victimization in the United States: Fixed and Random Effects of Individual and Household Characteristics

The present research is concerned with multilevel modeling of personalvictimization rates. Data from the 1994 National Crime Victimization Surveyare employed. Following the routine activities and lifestyle victimizationtheory, individuals' profile and lifestyle as well as characteristics oftheir household comprise the set of explanatory variables. The results ofestimated multilevel negative binomial models, which explicitly disentanglethe unexplained heterogeneity between individuals and between households,are discussed. The estimated random effects of household characteristicsshow that the unexplained heterogeneity for the average number of personalcrimes differs across household types. Further, the individual covariateswith between households random effects become less influential the more thebase personal crime rates are high.     

试论新形势下汕头经济特区经济犯罪的特点及对策

经济政策实施和经济管理过程中暴露出来的薄弱环节,现有的法律、法规又相对滞后于现实,前瞻性不足,给经济犯罪分子可乘之机,也决定经济犯罪在今后相当长的时期内依然很活跃,打击和预防的任务依然很繁重。本文着重对汕头经济特区经济犯罪的特点和存在原因进行剖析,作出一般推测和预见,提出预防和综合治理的具体对策。     

论贪污贿赂犯罪死刑标准之异化——以培育法律公信力为视角

刑法关于贪污贿赂犯罪的设置,以及司法机关对此类犯罪的惩处,都是为了严厉打击此类犯罪,并以此昭示法律的正义,培育法律的公信力。但在上述目标实现的过程中,由于立法、司法、媒体传播等原因,使死刑标准发生了不同程度上的异化,这种异化的表层后果是死刑适用的不均衡,其深层后果是降低司法权威、动摇法律公信力,应当予以矫正。     

金融职务犯罪的原因及防范对策

金融职务犯罪已经成为影响金融稳定及金融生态良性循环的重要因素之一。分析其深层次原因,有针对性地构建全方位防范和打击此类犯罪的社会联动机制,做到惩治和预防相结合,方能达到治标又治本的目的。     

刑事司法视角下的国民预测可能性

作为刑法的精神内核,罪刑法定内含预测可能性原理,意图通过明文规定的犯罪与刑罚,克己守法的法官运用形式思维严格适用法律,使民众事先能够预测自己的行为性质,保障行动的自由.然而预测可能性原理实现前提的假设被证伪,刑法规范的模糊性与法律概念的类型化,使得法官适用法律时必然适当能动.同时,法官的法律思维与民众的日常思维存在较大...     

全国毒品违法犯罪心理学术研讨会综述

全国毒品违法犯罪心理学术研讨会的代表们结合会议主题,分析了吸毒、贩毒、戒毒者的心理态势,并有针对性地提出了治疗、改造、预防和惩治的对策方略。     

Performing PREVENT: anti-extremist theatre-in-education in the service of UK counter-terrorism,a Freirean analysis

ABSTRACT

This article reveals a new trend in UK counter-terrorism: the emergence of anti-extremist Theatre-in-Education (TIE) to deliver counter-terrorism projects in schools and colleges. Using Paulo Freire’s vision of critical and dialogic pedagogy, I offer an analysis of anti-extremist TIE against a backdrop of PREVENT, the UK counter-terrorism strategy. The September 11 attack, the London Transport bombings and the more recent attacks in Europe and the UK have contributed to a strengthening of counter-terrorism measures in all spheres of public life. In 2015, the UK government introduced a statutory duty for education providers to prevent young people from being drawn into terrorism. This is known as the PREVENT Duty. The implementation of the duty has not been without controversy, with commentators noting a disproportionate focus on Islamist forms of terrorism. My study has shown that the guiding principle of TIE to enact social change is threatened in this climate, whilst maintaining the possibility of engaging young people in meaningful dialogue about terrorism and violent extremism.     

中国《刑法》中的环境犯罪:梳理、评价与展望

经过刑法修正案的几次修正,中国《刑法》对环境犯罪的法律规制逐渐形成了基本格局,并从严密法网和降低结果要求两个维度体现出了强调环境保护自身价值的明显倾向。但总体上说,人本主义的刑法本身仍值得坚持,而填充侵犯环境犯罪作为独立一章则需要慎重。降低环境犯罪的结果要求不等于规定了行为犯,而过失危险犯立法的主张不如所谓复合罪过立法,严格责任立法则实无必要。中国环境刑法的进一步完善,远景规划是追求立法双轨制、在行政法规中制定罪刑罚则,乃至在条件成熟时制定《危害环境犯罪法》。而就当下来说,更容易实现的目标是,进一步严密环境犯罪的法网范围,同时,完善相应的刑事制裁体系,以便更为有效地应对各种环境犯罪行为。