黑恶组织犯罪的初查研判研究

在黑恶组织犯罪案件的侦办过程中,由于此类犯罪操作层面大,取证难,因而大量立案前的调查行为在打黑实践中比比皆是,如对黑恶组织的早期摸排经营,情报信息的甄别审查等。较之检察机关侦办职务犯罪案件的初查制度的日益成熟与规范,立法对黑恶组织犯罪立案前的调查行为并未专门规定,它还处于一个实践概念的层面。黑恶组织犯罪的初查研判在打黑实践中极为关键,是侦查工作顺利开展的基础,是启动黑恶组织犯罪专案侦查的保障。     

民间文学艺术权利归属的若干思考

民间文学艺术是集体创造物。其权利归属的确定,是民间文学艺术所有者的合法利益的保障,更是促进民间文学艺术在经济社会中实现其经济价值和人文价值,弘扬民族风气,传承民族精神的必需。民间文学艺术权利的归属,存在不同观点。集体族群作为民间文学艺术权利归属具有合理性,集体族群成立的社团组织在实践中具有可操作性,能够促进民间文学艺术的保存与发展。     

"用工荒"与"就业难"并存形势下高职校企合作人才培养研究

＂用工荒＂与＂就业难＂同时存在的现象,其实质上是人才结构、产业结构的问题。高职校企合作是职业教育人才培养与经济社会发展需求相适应的重要途径。我国的高职校企合作大多是低水平、浅层次的,为此,应大力培育和发展行业协会,加快推进高职院校人才培养机制创新,建立健全政府主导、行业指导、企业参与的办学机制,促进校企合作制度化,建立起一个可持续发展的校企合作的良性循环机制。     

关于我市部分企业劳动争议调解组织工作情况的调研报告

我市劳动争议调解组织网络,现已初步形成,劳调组织已成为化解劳动纠纷的"稳压器"。但其组织建设,尚有较大缺位;改制退出企业的劳调工作,也陷入了某种盲区;一些企业劳调水平不高,影响了调解的成效。今后应进一步贯彻落实相关法律法规政策,加大对劳调组织的组建力度,努力推进劳动争议调解与人民调解的有效衔接,以使我市劳调工作能够提升到一种新水平。     

黑社会性质组织的认定探析——以立法解释为视角

刑法典第294条对黑社会性质组织规定并不完整,于是全国人大常委会于2002年4月28日通过了相关的立法解释。立法解释对黑社会性质组织的界定可以概括为组织性特征、经济实力特征、行为手段特征和非法控制性特征,其中非法控制性特征是黑社会性质组织的本质特征,是区别于一般的犯罪集团最显著的特征。在认定黑社会性质组织时准确地把握立法解释,四个特征需要同时具备,既不可随意降低标准,也不可刻意拔高标准。     

非营利组织在社区治理中的作用

随着市场经济的建立,非营利组织作为社会的第三板块日益凸现出来,它对于推动政府职能转变、参与社区治理等都将起到难以替代的作用;要充分发挥它在社区治理中的作用,就必须改变政府的一贯态度,建立政府与非营利组织、营利组织与非营利组织的伙伴关系,为非营利组织的发展提供广阔的自主活动空间,建立健全非营利组织自身的运行机制。     

Examining the good lives model and antisocial behaviour

This study examined the utility of the Good Lives Model (GLM) (Ward, T., &; Stewart, C. A. (2003). The treatment of sex offenders: Risk management and good lives. Professional Psychology: Research and Practice, 34(4), 353–360. doi:10.1037/0735-7028.34.4.353) in understanding offending behaviour in students. Two hypotheses were made, consistent with the assumptions of the GLM. First, that participants would endorse the importance of the primary goods set out in the GLM. Second, that reports of antisocial behaviour would relate to a lack of effective strategies, or use of maladaptive strategies, to achieve primary goods. Participants (n?=?340, M age?=?20 years) completed a questionnaire (Measure of Life Priorities) assessing their pursuit, valuation, and achievement of the primary human goods as set out in the GLM and a Self-Report of Offending questionnaire. Results supported our hypotheses, and subsequently the assumptions of the GLM. Our findings support the continued use of the GLM as a theoretical and treatment oriented framework in diverse groups engaged in offending behaviour. Future research should continue to ground the GLM in empirical support.     

Nothing personal: explaining the rise and decline of political machines in Ukraine

This article is the first to explore and compare the dynamics of party-building between the three main political forces that competed for power during the last decade in Ukraine – Viktor Yushchenko's Nasha Ukrayina (Our Ukraine), Yulia Tymoshenko's Batkivshchyna (Fatherland), and Viktor Yanukovych's Partiya Rehioniv (Party of Regions). We show that their political trajectories can be explained by differences in their organizational structure and distribution of resources within the party's leadership. When a party depends on resources linked primarily to one individual, it will develop a personalized decision-making structure advantaging its leader, and the party's fortunes will be tied to the popularity (or lack of same) of the leader. By contrast, when a party relies equally on resources from several groups, a more consociational style of decision-making is likely to emerge. Using Ukraine as a case study, the article shows that personality-led parties will be more vulnerable to defections and less capable of absorbing potential competitors. On the other hand, coalition-led parties are better capable of surviving defeats, maintaining internal cohesion, and merging with like-minded parties.     

Integrating Behavioral Health Care and Primary Care: Application of a Clinical and Economic Model in Culturally Diverse Communities

Although mental illness treatment protocols exist, the organization and financing of screening and treatment services inhibit access. These challenges are compounded for refugees, immigrants, and other groups vulnerable due to their ethnicity, race, or culture. By creating a system-wide, collaborative, integrated model that recognizes and addresses critical clinical and economic aspects in the delivery of services, high quality, evidence-based care can be made available to groups susceptible to the burdens of mental illness. Clinically and financially aligning primary and specialty care offers a viable alternative for improving access and quality of mental health services to vulnerable populations.     

The Organization of Purchasing at German Universities: An Empirical Investigation

The objective of this article is two-fold: first, it studies how German universities organize their purchasing activities, and, second, it identifies patterns in the structure of the purchasing function and analyzes factors that influence the design of purchasing. For this purpose, the article develops an analytical framework based on ideas of contingency and organization theory and presents the results of an empirical study which analyzed the purchasing organization of 65 German universities. The results of the study indicate that German universities use a medium level of centralization and specialization to organize their purchasing activities, and that the purchasing process is highly formalized in most universities. As to influential factors of the structure of purchasing, the study indicates that the number of employees, the number of employees with purchasing-responsibility, the purchasing volume, and the number of students enrolled at the university influence the structural variables.