关于给付行政的若干思考——以德日行政法为中心

给付行政是德日行政法学的一个基础概念与分析工具。虽然近年来我国已开始出现对给付行政的研究,但在一些基础问题上(如含义、涉及范围及相关法律问题等)仍缺少较为深刻的领会。在比较分析德日等国在给付行政研究方面所涉及的基本问题后,分析给付行政研究对于推进我国的行政法学总论与分论研究的意义,并进一步指出我国在进行给付行政研究的时候所需要注意的几个基本理论问题。     

刑罚演进的他者视角——对福柯《规训与惩罚》的刑法学解读

福柯在《规训与惩罚》中运用谱系学方法和自身建构的微观权力理论分析了从中世纪末期到近当代的刑罚演进历史,指出所谓监狱与刑罚制度的改革不过是在人道和人权的幌子下所作的规训方式的的进化,这一观点显然有别于传统的刑法学观点,因此有必要从刑法学角度探讨福柯论证的内在理路及其见识。     

关于看守所全面开展对社会开放的思考

根据公安部《关于全面推开看守所对社会开放工作的通知》精神,看守所对社会开放工作将在全国范围内推广。对社会开放是看守所在新形势下面临的一项新任务。利用对社会开放契机,看守所应当进一步加强制度建设,提高工作透明度,树立良好形象,最大限度地争取社会对监管工作的理解与支持。     

联邦国家的中央与地方立法分权模式研究

联邦制的启示在于,要实现中央和地方关系的法治化,有必要从宪法上合理配置中央和地方的立法权。虽然联邦国家的中央和地方分权历经变迁,但还是有章可循,而联邦国家的立法分权模式为中国的中央与地方关系法治化提供了可资借鉴的经验。     

我国贸易顺差的成因分析及对策建议

改革开放以来,我国开放型经济发展迅速,外贸顺差不断增加,由此带来贸易摩擦加剧、国内货币政策效应弱化等一系列问题。应从全球战略的高度,从互利双赢的思路来看待贸易平衡问题,推进产业结构、经济结构调整,以化解贸易摩擦,促进全球经济在合作、竞争、创新中和谐发展。     

Gender in the Context of Same‐Sex Divorce and Relationship Dissolution

This article identifies ways that judges, lawyers, researchers, and policy makers may attend to the role of gender and gender dynamics facing same‐sex couples upon divorce or other relationship dissolution. When same‐sex couples marry, the legal system and society at large may project conceptions of gender onto same‐sex couples, often in a manner that conflicts with couples' intentions and practices. Gender and gender dynamics may affect the bases for dissolution, the financial aspects of dissolution, and the determination of child custody. The article also suggests directions for future research on the impact of gender on the dissolution of same‐sex relationships.     

Narrative accounts from the citizens,victims, and offenders restoring justice program

This paper describes the Citizens, Victims, and Offenders Restoring Justice (CVORJ) program, a prison-based program conducted as a pilot study at the Washington State Reformatory. The program brings together offenders and victims - though not involved in the same crime - in the company of interested community members to discuss restorative justice principles. The program focuses on the sharing of personal narratives of crime to explore how the harms resulting from crime can best be addressed and justice achieved. Of interest was how a restorative justice model that highlighted community participation could be incorporated into a correctional setting and whether healing could result from the use of surrogate offenders, victims, and community members. The restorative nature of the program, its method of operation, results from the qualitative evaluation, and key implementation challenges are presented.     

Prison Recruitment as a Policy Tool of Local Economic Development: A Critical Evaluation

Like the sports franchises and foreign auto plants that preceded them, state and local governments are touting prisons as the latest means of economic miracle‐making, often for small towns and communities that are economically depressed. The building of prisons is supposedly tied to the development of a just, fair, and rational criminal justice policy in a civil democratic society. Prison building has positive and negative social and political consequences for these communities. This critical essay explores some of these consequences in light of the literature on prison siting, the experiences of communities and prisoners, and relevant statistical data in the public domain. It also offers an alternative framework for evaluating prison recruitment as a strategy for local economic development.     

Gang activity in English prisons: The prisoners’ perspective

Abstract

Gang activity in American prisons has resulted in serious problems for prisoners and staff. This study assessed prisoners’ perceptions of gang-event frequency in the UK. Interviews with 360 prisoners from nine prisons in England and Wales indicated gang-related events were perceived as more frequent in all male categories of prison than they were in female institutions. Prisoners reported drug possession and prisoner groups being formed along regional origins as the most frequent gang-related activities. Recidivists perceived higher levels of gang-related activity than did first-time prisoners. Gang-related variables also predicted prisoners’ perceptions that groups of prisoners have more control over events in the prison than do staff and that order in the prison may not be maintained. The merits of interviewing prisoners and the implications of the results for maintaining order in prison are discussed.     

When Law and Order Returned to Denmark

The international trend toward increased use of punishment has been visible in Denmark since the early 1990s and has accelerated in the first years of the new millennium. As in other countries the trend cannot be explained by changes in crime or a political turn to the right. The increased use of punishment in (post) modern societies undoubtedly has a very complex background. The primary explanation put forth in this article is that it is based on a radical change in the human conditions and in the way people relate to their world. It is an existential revolution and, as such, it has emerged ‘from the bottom’ of society. This suggestion is not offered as an alternative to existing explanations that have been mainly dealing with factors and matters ‘from the top’ of society, such as changes in and of the political system (e.g. populism), the mass media (e.g. alarmism), the social organization of society (e.g. bureaucratization and/or industrialization), and globalization (e.g. imitation and/or internationalization of penal law). Rather, the hypothesis should be viewed as an important supplement to these existing theories and explanations.