DIVORCE MEDIATION: Research and Reflections

Mediation and other forms of alternative dispute resolution (ADR) grew rapidly in the last few decades as a result of high divorce rates, frequent conflicts between parting parents, the resulting administrative burden on courts, and especially concerns about damaging effects on children and postdivorce family relationships. This article focuses on our longitudinal research involving randomized trials of mediation and adversary settlement to support the conclusions that mediation can: (1) settle a large percentage of cases otherwise headed for court; (2) possibly speed settlement, save money, and increase compliance with agreements; (3) clearly increase party satisfaction; and (4) most importantly, lead to remarkably improved relationships between nonresidential parents and children, as well as between divorced parents—even twelve years after dispute settlement. The key "active ingredients" of mediation are likely to include: (1) the call for parental cooperation over the long run of co-parenting beyond the crisis of separation, (2) the opportunity to address underlying emotional issues (albeit briefly), (3) helping parents to establish a businesslike relationship, and (4) the avoidance of divisive negotiations at a critical time for family relationships. We call for more research on mediation and other forms of ADR, as well as a renewal of the excitement and optimism of the "first generation" of mediators, qualities that are "active ingredients" in any successful social or psychological intervention.     

关于开展文物警察学研究的设想

文物警察学是要从公安工作角度对文物保护问题进行综合研究,其基本内容包括对于文物刑事、文物治保、文物消防和公安内部文物管理体制等方面问题的探索。山西警专开展文物警察学研究,具有地方治安刑事案件素材和人力资源等优势,也具有重要的理论和实践价值。在为期五年的第一发展周期,应充分利用人、财、物等条件,推动山西的文物警察研究和教学活动由软性研究课题组合向专门的科研部门,再向能承担教学、培训、科研任务的公安特色专业演进,为本校、山西以至全国的公安理论研究和公安教育工作做出贡献。     

略论两汉时期的汉字研究

本文分三个方面对两汉时期的汉字研究进行了概述,一、对汉字形义的阐释;二、对汉字音义的阐释;三、对字义的阐释。本文指出,两汉时期的汉字研究是一个全面发展的阶段,形式多样,内容丰富,为今后的汉字学奠定了坚实的基础。     

应用：中国逻辑研究的软肋

多年来中国逻辑应用研究一直停滞在探索范围、对象、方法的层次上,进取不大,成为中国逻辑研究的软肋。究其原因,逻辑应用研究的认识有误是妨碍逻辑应用研究发展的主要问题。     

Consent in escrow

Disasters such as flash flooding, mass shootings, and train and airplane accidents involving large numbers of victims produce significant opportunity for research in the biosciences. This opportunity exists in the extreme tails of life events, however, during which decisions about life and death, valuing and foregoing, speed and patience, trust and distrust, are tested simultaneously and abundantly. The press and urgency of these scenarios may also challenge the ability of researchers to comprehensively deliver information about the purposes of a study, risks, benefits, and alternatives. Under these circumstances, we argue that acquiring consent for the immediate use of data that are not time sensitive represents a gap in the protection of human study participants. In response, we offer a two-tiered model of consent that allows for data collected in real-time to be held in escrow until the acute post-disaster window has closed. Such a model not only respects the fundamental tenet of consent in research, but also enables such research to take place in an ethically defensible manner.     

Interventionism as Practice: On ‘Ordinary Transgressions’ and their Routinization

In this article, the aim is to bridge the gap in the international relations (IR) literature on contemporary interventionism between a strand of research mainly focusing on the concepts of intervention, sovereignty and their meanings, and a strand more interested in the particular practices bound up with the phenomenon described as ‘intervention'. This is done by exploring how the literature on the so-called ‘practice-turn' might allow light to be shed on both dimensions. Such an approach might prove fruitful provided attention is paid both to the material and discursive practices of interventionism; both to the transgressive practices constitutive of interventionism and their routinization. Finally, this piece also introduces each of this special section's contributions by showing how they illustrate and expand on the different problématiques here outlined.     

基于裁判文书的法学实证研究之审视

知识图谱分析结果表明,基于裁判文书的法学实证研究成果数量总体上呈现增长趋势,但在近两年出现明显下降;基于裁判文书法学实证研究学术群体规模正在逐步缓慢扩大,但研究成果在研究主体间的分布呈较为集中趋势;研究成果所涉及学科领域具有较为明显的局限性,且具体研究内容伴随热点问题获得短暂爆发之后开始呈退缩之势。在方法转型背景之下,基于裁判文书法学实证研究的演变,受到研究方法在数据可得性、数据完整性以及数据客观性等方面所存在之优势与缺陷影响。研究人员自身应当在研究过程中通过丰富研究数据、规范研究方法之适用以及推动数据处理技术的发展等方式寻求基于裁判文书法学实证研究的长远发展之道。     

基于课堂观察的三环六步教研模式的实践——以中职英语教学为例

中职英语教研模式单一化,教师的专业发展主要靠自己的努力,缺少同伴专业的相互指导促进。结合课堂观察实例,讨论了中职英语教研方式的改进的现实需要、并借助案例分析介绍了以课堂观察为基础的中职英语三环六步这种创新型的教研模式,旨在优化教研组的教研模式,提升教师的研究能力,营造团队合作的氛围,优化中职英语课堂。     

监狱民警职业心态问题研究

监狱民警的职业心态,是监狱民警在对罪犯的行刑与改造的过程中,所内化出的一种反映其职业操守与职业行为的心理状态。受其正能量因素与负能量因素的影响,监狱民警的职业心态,又可分成为正向性职业心态和负向性职业心态,其正向性职业心态是监狱民警担当法律之责、刑罚之任的主流心态,分别表现为趋强性、趋稳性或趋弱性的演绎逻辑过程,构成为交错性、反复性、重叠式、跳跃性和阶段性的演绎特征。其调适的路径主要有监狱民警职业态度的再度塑造、监狱精神的传承弘扬、监狱文化的着力建设、监狱民警的心理养生、监狱民警的职业调理和监狱民警的职业评估等。