Understanding the Relationship Between Onset Age and Subsequent Offending During Adolescence

This article examines the well-documented relationship between early initiation or onset of criminal behavior and a heightened risk of involvement in offending. Previous research examining this question conducted by Nagin and Farrington (Criminology 30:235–260, 1992a; Criminology 30:501–523, 1992b) used data from the Cambridge Study in Delinquent Development and found that: (1) onset age was correlated with offending involvement; and (2) the correlation could be explained by stable individual differences in the propensity to offend rather than a causal effect of early onset age. In this study, similar analytic methods are applied to data from the Second Philadelphia Birth Cohort. This data set consists of all 13,160 males born in Philadelphia in 1958 who resided in the city continuously from ages 10 to 18, slightly more than half of whom were non-white. Information from each of the youths was collected from schools, juvenile justice agencies, other official sources and surveys. In a model that mimics previous analyses, we initially found that an early age of onset is associated with greater subsequent involvement in delinquent behavior. When unobserved criminal propensity was controlled, however, we found that a late rather than an early onset of delinquency was related to future offending. In finding a state dependent effect for age of onset, our findings are contrary to propensity theory in criminology. In finding that it is late rather early onset which puts youth at risk for future offending, our findings are contrary to developmental/life course theory. Our results are more compatible with traditional criminological theory that is friendly to state dependence processes, though they too have not to date articulated why a late onsetting of offending might be particularly criminogenic.

英美刑法中的犯罪行为及其启示

英美刑法中犯罪行为的概念具有不同于大陆法系刑法中犯罪行为概念的特色。文章通过对英美刑法中犯罪行为概念的展开,分析了犯罪行为的地位及其与犯罪构成的关系,并且进行了分类介绍。人们应汲取英美刑法中犯罪行为理论的合理内核,将持有视为与作为和不作为并列的第三犯罪行为形式。     

The identity of ‘the other’ for sexual violence victims: is there anything new in sexual violence prosecutions before the International Criminal Court?

Despite the spectacular development in the field of international criminal law, critical feminism stresses the narrow scope of the sex and gender crimes in the Rome Statute establishing the first permanent International Criminal Court. The current international criminal law discourse, as expressed by recent case law, is geared towards the protection of certain groups targeted on account of their distinctiveness within the framework of a conflict situation, and gender is not recognized as one of these group identities. The question whether international criminal law on sexual violence applies only to inter-group conflicts brings to the fore an uneasy likelihood of exclusion of some recently emergent situations where identities of the conflicting parties transcend a particular ethnicity or nationality, and where victims of sexual violence belong to the same group as their perpetrators. The article argues that, rather than the Rome Statute or newly introduced rules and regulations, a significant obstacle in developing gender justice is the narrow interpretation of sexual violence to inter-group hostilities.     

Now wash your hands: uncommissioned art and gender

Examining the urban arts in the UK, in their paint and fibre-based alternatives, this article aims to account for the differences in contemporary dealings with graffiti and yarn-bombing (kniffiti). The intersectional complications of gender, race, age and class, as they have come to bear on the visual arts, as well as the historical power structures that have determined the classification of crime, and of art, are offered as possible rationales for present-day handling of ‘deviance’ in the form of urban art. It seems that urban knitting has blind-sighted both social conventions and legal principles in a way that exposes the arbitrary nature of both.     

论不追究刑事责任

我国《刑法》和《刑事诉讼法》用三个不同的概念对不追究刑事责任作了规定。《刑事诉讼法》第16条所规定的不追究刑事责任可分为三种情形,但《刑法》第201条第4款中规定的不予追究刑事责任并未归属其中。现行刑事立法在不追究刑事责任的规定中概念不统一,《刑法》在规定不追究刑事责任方面不当缺位,已有的规定也较为粗糙,《刑事诉讼法》缺乏特赦令执行的程序规定,我们有必要完善不追究刑事责任的刑事立法规定。     

平台异化还是因债致罪？——P2P网贷涉非法吸收公众存款罪裁判文本实证研究

文章采用文献研究的方法对83份P2P网贷平台构成非法吸收公众存款罪的裁判文书进行实证分析。通过对平台异化模式的定性分析和平台负债情况的定量分析以及与刑事责任程度的交叉分析,文章认为,平台异化是P2P网贷平台构成非法吸收公众存款罪的基础性因素,负债规模、存款人人数和无法清偿的数额等三个因素都对刑事责任的程度产生影响。而且相比之下,无法清偿的数额对刑事责任影响的程度最为显著。实际上对P2P网贷平台追究非法吸收公众存款罪的刑事责任是因为网贷平台无法清偿举债数额巨大,即因债致罪。这种因债致罪的司法行为逻辑,可以从司法者作为“清场者”的功能定位和对社会秩序的价值追求来解释其合理性,但是从多元价值权衡和刑事民事分离的角度分析,其又是不合理的。     

司法实践中能否认定自首的几种情形

在新修订的刑法修正案（八）中对自首条文新增加一款规定,将如实供述（习惯上称之为＂坦白＂,笔者在下文中也暂且将刑法修正案（八）新增的67条3款简称为＂坦白＂）可以从轻处罚的酌定量刑情节上升为法定从轻情节,足见我国刑事立法对自首或者如实供述的犯罪嫌疑人所秉持的是宽缓的态度。然而对于该条款的准确适用,则是检察机关特别是基层检察机关在办案过程中亟需解决的问题,本文从司法实践的角度对几种能否认定自首的情形进行逐一的分析和探讨,以期对当前和今后的司法实践起到一定的促进作用。     

刑事审判监督机制研究——以南京国民政府为例

刑事审判监督机制是保证审判质量,确保司法公正的重要举措。南京国民政府时期,刑事审判制度的设计及运作,无不将刑事审判监督机制作为一项重要的内容加以构建,既吸收了西方的法制监督理论,也考虑到当时的国情,建立了一个从正规的监察院到普通的社会民众的庞大的刑事审判监督体系,对防止刑事错案、杜绝司法腐败起到了积极的作用。     

论未成年人犯罪案件中的相关信息调查——我国新《刑事诉讼法》第二百六十八条之理解与适用

针对启动事由在法条规定的基础上,提出涉案未成年人基于自己的权益需要也应赋予其信息调查的申请启动权,另外相关未成年人的社会保护团体在面临特殊情况时也可建议涉案未成年人或者公检法启动信息调查。在信息调查主体方面提出参照先前司法解释,由公检法三机关协商共同委托社区矫正工作部门来进行信息调查。最后提出在信息调查的内容方面要与司解内容相对接,与试点经验相融合,与身心特点相协调,与嫌疑罪名相对应的构想。     

高等学校法学刑侦实验室建设模式的研究与探索

通过对高等院校法学刑侦实验室现状的分析研究,针对传统法学教学模式只注重法学理论、弱化实践性教学环节,导致学生操作能力不强的现状,紧紧围绕法学教学活动中以刑事侦查实践为中心,以提升学生的动手及适应社会能力水平为目的,夯实本科教学基础,提出以体验性模拟现场实景教学法为手段,构建合理的法学刑侦实验室建设的模式。