Characteristic Features of Hanging: A Study in Rural District of Central India

The ligature mark is the most relevant feature of hanging. This study was undertaken with a view to determine the characteristic features of hanging and its association with ligature material or mode of suspension. Of a total medicolegal deaths reported at an Apex Medical Centre, hanging was noted in 4.1% cases, all suicidal with mortality rate of 1.5 per 100,000 population per year. The hanging was complete in 67.7% with nylon rope as the commonest type of ligature material used for ligation. The hanging mark was usually single, situated above thyroid cartilage, incomplete, prominent, and directed toward nape of neck. The mark of dribbling of saliva was seen in 11.8% cases. Facial congestion, petechial hemorrhage, and cyanosis were significantly seen in partial hanging. Though occasionally reported, the argent line was noted in 78.7% hanging deaths with neck muscle hemorrhage in 23.6% cases. Fracture of neck structure was predominant in complete hanging.     

European Human Rights Law and the Normalisation of the ‘Closed Material Procedure’: Limit or Source?

Once a legal abnormality that was criticised on human rights grounds, the closed material procedure (CMP) has now become the main mechanism for dealing with allegedly sensitive security information in the UK. This article considers the role of European human rights law in that process. It argues that the CMP can be conceptualised as the product of human rights law, which has developed so as to legalise and normalise its use, and that this process is symptomatic of a deeper inter‐relationship between human rights law and the preservation of states' security interests, which renders the former inherently unsuitable for dealing with security phenomena.     

把集邮文化融入先进文化建设大潮

集邮以其广泛的群众基础和深厚的人文魅力,是构建先进文化的有机载体,把集邮文化融入我国先进文化建设大潮,具有重要的现实意义。     

视听资料的证据能力及采信规则

视听资料在我国是一种独立的证据种类 ,它对民事案件过程的再现具有其他证据种类无法比拟的特性。但是 ,视听资料本身又包含有易被伪造、篡改的先天不足 ,瑕疵视听资料 (包括非法视听资料 )的证据能力该如何判断 ?视听资料在司法实践中的采信规则该如何把握 ?等问题 ,都是我们要面对且亟待解决的课题。本文主要就视听资料的证据能力及采信规则进行一番探讨 ,以为今后建立视听资料的有关具体制度作一些理论上的准备     

戒毒难之探索--吸毒复吸机理之新探

毒品对人体造成了生理上的实质性损害,改变了人脑中枢的正常犒赏功能,仅仅依靠自然或意志是不可能恢复的.因此,生理依赖才是其根本的原因,心理依赖是建立在生理依赖的基础上的.     

一次手印鉴定引发的思考

近期,我们受理了一起特殊的手印鉴定。此前该手印已有肯定与否定两种截然相反的鉴定结论,鉴定委托人又不能提供检材和样本原件,只将相关的照片送检。在检验过程中,我们经过观察分析、实验验证、计算机图像处理等过程,弄清了手印的本质,做出了科学、客观的结论。     

我国劳动教养制度改革刍议

在我国签署了《公民权利与政治权利国际公约》的特定政治经济态势下,现行劳动教养制度的改革就显得十分迫切。作者阐述了现行劳教制度应予改革的缘由、根据,并提出劳教改革建言。     

犯罪现场心理痕迹的利用

犯罪现场的心理痕迹客观地反映了作案人的心理意识和活动,它具有客观普遍、抽象特殊、相对稳定等特征。通过对犯罪心理痕迹的分析,获取作案人的个性特点,犯罪经历、动机、行为以及无意识心理痕迹等特征,能够为作案人进行心理画像,并为案件串并、侦破提供线索和依据。     

高等职业教育《法理学》教材体系创新研究

教材是体现教学内容和教学方式的知识载体,是把教育思想、观念、宗旨等转变为具体教育实践的终结,是实现培养目标的重要工具.编写具有职业教育特色的高职政法类教材,应把突出高职教育特色作为教材创新的宗旨;而转变教材编写的传统理念是教材创新的关键;知识内容的选择是教材编写的核心;教材框架结构的设计是构建具有高职特色、体现创新教育理念、具有完整的知识结构的教材手段.     

政府信用制度的法律调整

诚信原则不仅显耀于私法,在公法领域也逐渐得到认可.个人信用、企业信用是民商法的调整范围,与民商法相对应的基本法的是经济法、行政法,经济法和行政法的关系是实体(经济法)和程序(行政法)的分工.在政府控制经济活动的领域中,经济法与行政法分别以实体法规范(授予行政权力)和行政法规范(设定行政行为的程序)的方式互动地实现政府控制经济生活,规范政府经济行为的目标,本文拟从行政法与经济法的角度研究政府信用制度.