TENUOUS BORDERS: GIRLS TRANSFERRED TO ADULT COURT*

There are tremendous gaps in our theories and knowledge about girls who have committed crimes deemed so serious as to justify adult sentencing. This study is guided by a feminist approach to “give voice” to 22 girls incarcerated in a women's prison in the Midwest. Through in‐depth interviews, the girls describe their lives before prison and their perceptions of being tried and convicted as adults. Consistent with other research on female offenders, these girls reported lives fraught with violence and victimization, sexism, racism, and economic marginalization. This study calls for a more careful and complex look at issues of victimization, agency, and responsibility among female offenders, particularly those proclaimed “adults” by the legal system.     

学生在射击课教学中不同阶段的心理活动

在公安院校的射击教学中,应全面了解学生在不同阶段和不同条件下的各种微妙心理活动,采取灵活多样的教学训练 方法和手段来提高射击教学质量。     

西方高等教育对我国公安高等教育的几点启示

西方高等教育的经验是经过长期摸索得到的 ,借鉴他们的经验 ,可以降低我们在推进公安教育改革和发展中的风险和代价 ,有利于我们用很少的时间和很小代价去完成自己的发展目标     

新形势下加强和改进思想政治理论课的体会与思考

思想政治理论课必须紧紧抓住信念教育这个根本,帮助学生树立坚定的共产主义信念,警察院校因其特有的性质,这一点尤为重要。在进行信念教育时必须坚持灌输理论。思想政治课教师必须在教学实践中身体力行地坚持马克思主义与时俱进的理论品格。充分发挥思想政治理论课的主渠道作用,加强和改进思想政治理论课,不断增强教育教学的针对性、实效性和说服力。要讲究语言的艺术性,提高思想政治理论课教学的吸引力和感染力。     

试析我国农村集体土地征收法律制度的完善——以农民权益保护为视角

土地征收制度,是世界各国为发展社会公共事业而设的一种法律制度,我国实行的是土地社会主义公有制,土地所有权的主体是国家和集体。随着我国城市化进程的加快,越来越多的集体土地被征收。在国家经济飞速发展的今天,农民成了中国经济发展的最大义务承受者。本文以农村土地的征收现状为基础,分析其中存在的问题,以期在法律制度上为保护农民利益提供一些帮助。     

THE INFLUENCE OF EARLY SCHOOL PUNISHMENT AND THERAPY/MEDICATION ON SOCIAL CONTROL EXPERIENCES DURING YOUNG ADULTHOOD

The use of suspensions and expulsions by American public school administrators has increased dramatically over the past 40 years. Meanwhile, a growing number of childhood misbehaviors have been diagnosed by doctors as medical conditions and are being treated with therapy or medication. As these trends develop at different rates for boys of different racial and ethnic groups, the connection between childhood and adult social control remains untested empirically. By using a prospective panel of 3,274 White, Black, and Hispanic males (15,675 person‐years) and multilevel logistic models, I examine whether and how school punishment and/or the use of therapy or medication during childhood contributes to involvement in the criminal justice or mental health systems during young adulthood. The findings suggest that school punishment is associated with greater odds of involvement in the criminal justice system but not the mental health system. The use of therapy and/or medication during childhood is associated with higher odds of involvement in the mental health system but not the criminal justice system. Finally, although the relationship between school punishment and involvement with the criminal justice system is similar for White, Black, and Hispanic men, the relationship between medicalized social control during childhood and young adulthood is stronger for Whites than for non‐Whites.     

Changes in staff confidence and attributions for challenging behaviour after training in positive behavioural support,within a forensic mental health setting: a replication study with follow-up

Positive behavioural support (PBS) is a proactive approach to managing challenging behaviour. Staff in a forensic mental health service were provided training in PBS. The study aimed to assess the effectiveness of training by measuring changes to staff confidence and attributions for challenging behaviour before training, post training and at six-month follow-up. Qualified and unqualified staff were compared, as were male and female staff. Confidence was measured using an adapted version of the Confidence in Coping with Patient Aggression Instrument. The Challenging Behaviour Attributions Scale and the Causal Dimension Scale II assessed staff attributions. Staff confidence levels in working with challenging behaviour increased following PBS training, and this increase was maintained at six-month follow-up, for unqualified, qualified, male and female staff. Changes in attributions for challenging behaviour were observed post training; however changes were not maintained at follow-up. Limitations and clinical implications were outlined.     

Confinement as a two‐stage turning point: Do changes in identity or social structure predict subsequent changes in criminal activity?*

Scholars frequently characterize incarceration as a possible turning point in criminal activity. This implies a two‐stage process: 1) change in life‐course mechanisms around confinement and reentry result in 2) subsequent change in criminal activity relative to preconfinement. Following this model, we examine change in criminal activity, criminal identity, and social/structural challenges using data from the Prison Project, a cohort of adult males with short‐term confinement in the Netherlands in 2010–2011. Results of a novel test for within‐individual change in arrests from preconfinement to post‐reentry show that most individuals are stable—yet there is a substantial group who go down meaningfully and a much smaller group who go up. Even though changes in criminal identity from the intervening period do not predict these change groups, increases in social/structural challenges predict those who go up in criminal activity. We build from prior work on desistance and reentry, contrasting our findings and highlighting the unique insight gained from, as well as challenges of, measuring individual change within our two‐stage turning point model. Although life‐course mechanisms often correspond with changes in criminal activity concurrently, identifying individual changes that are predictors of subsequent shifts in criminal offending remains elusive.     

高校思想政治理论课教学方法探析

高校思想政治理论课教学要增强吸引力和感染力，需要从以下方面入手：课堂教学要贯彻“以人为本”原则；使传统教学方式与现代教学方式相结合；使理论灌输和实践教学相结合；使思想政治教育与心理健康教育相结合。     

构建贵阳生态文化建设评价体系的思考

构建生态文化建设评价体系的目的就是对本地本部门生态文化建设状况作出科学的评价,为党委、政府提供决策参考,协调、督促、指导本地本部门改进工作方式,提高工作效率,力争更大成效。构建贵阳生态文化建设评价体系,就是建立一套遵循生态文化建设的客观规律、科学设置指标体系框架、能够反映生态文化建设基本状况及成效的综合评价方法。通过对各地各部门生态文化建设工作的科学评价,有利于生态文化建设工作的有序开展、统筹实施、科学推进,实现工作制度化、精细化、实效化。