Working with sex offenders in a climate of public blame and anxiety: How to make defensible decisions for risk

Abstract

Work with sex offenders takes place in a climate of public blame and anxiety. This requires practitioners to adopt the highest standards of practice to ensure that defensible decisions are made. These are decisions that must withstand hindsight scrutiny in the light of a risk management failure. This paper reviews the key practice points that will assist practitioners in making defensible decisions, and the key challenges for practitioners in this challenging area of work.     

A human rights-based practice framework for sexual offenders

Abstract

Human rights create a protective zone around people and allow them the opportunity to further their own valued personal projects without interference from others. In our view, the emphasis on community rights and protection may, paradoxically, reduce the effectiveness of sex offender rehabilitation by ignoring or failing to ensure that offenders’ core human interests are met. In this paper we consider how rights-based values and ideas can be integrated into therapeutic work with sex offenders in a way that safeguards the interests of offenders and the community. To this end we develop a rights-based normative framework (the Offender Practice Framework: OPF) that is orientated around the three strands of justice and accountability, offender needs and risk, and the utilization of empirically supported interventions and strength-based approaches. We examine the utility of this framework for the different phases of sex offender practice.     

赌博违法犯罪行为辨析

赌博是常见的违法犯罪活动.通过对赌资数额如何认定、涉赌交通工具如何处理、赌资较大的标准、为涉赌人提供资金行为定性、携巨款参赌行为性质认定、赌博罪与非罪的界限进行分析,进而明晰涉赌违法犯罪活动的司法实务.     

科学学习是提高支部书记综合素质的关键

支部书记作为党的基层组织的负责人,要发挥组织、协调、表率、监督等作用,必须具备较高综合素质。支部书记综合素质的提高要以科学发展观为指导,确立科学的学习观,通过科学的求知、科学地工作、科学地生活,提高支部书记的综合素质。     

我国地方政府创新的实践与评价

我国地方政府创新活动在学术界、媒体和公众的共同推动下,呈现出日益蓬勃的发展态势。地方政府创新的实质是公共治理创新,目的是提高公共服务质量和政府自身的管理能力。目前,地方政府创新存在的主要问题是创新动力不足、创新环境不佳和创新成本较高。文章从国家制度建设、地方政府的层级节制和社会评价机制建设方面对促进与规范地方政府的创新行为进行了思考。     

论《刑法》第238条第2款后段的性质

关于《刑法》第238条第2款后段的性质,理论上存在着"转化犯说"、"注意规定说"与"法律拟制说"的对立。但是,"转化犯说"既没有对非法拘禁案件中的暴力进行合理的区分,也没有区分行为人对造成被害人伤残、死亡结果的心态,对问题的处理过于粗糙。"注意规定说"将"使用暴力致人伤残、死亡"解释为"故意使用暴力致人伤害、死亡",但是其根据并不充分;没有对非法拘禁案件中的暴力进行合理的区分;以故意伤害罪、故意杀人罪等吸收之前已经成立的非法拘禁罪,而不进行数罪并罚,缺乏理论根据。"法律拟制说"能够有效地适应社会需要,但是对法益理论和构成要件理论造成严重冲击,并且难以反驳涉嫌重刑主义和结果责任的指斥;从程序法的角度看,尽管简化了思维过程,但是也可能不当地减轻了检察机关的证明责任和法官的判决说理义务。只有将《刑法》第238条第2款后段理解为"注意规定加法律拟制",才能得出合理的结论。     

法人精神损害赔偿的正当性

法人精神损害赔偿当取决于民法原则、目的和司法问题之解决,而不仅由单纯的一般概念和法学概念推导决定。民法理论上,民事主体拟制属性和民法公平原则与目的均支持法人精神损害赔偿;司法实践中,填平补偿法人非财产损害,对法人非财产损害引起的大规模自然人精神损害的补偿都急需法人精神损害赔偿之确定。     

Driving South: The globalization of auto consumption and its social organization of space

ABSTRACT

Don Mitchell is one of the most influential contemporary cultural geographers and has long been at the forefront of scholarship on intersections of capital, nature and labor. His work engages the geo-historical processes of landscape co-production and discusses how social, political and labor struggles that formed landscapes have been hidden or erased. Mitchell’s research and work are informed by an urgency to uncover the forces shaping the human–land dialectic. It is difficult not to sense profound urgency at the current political–ecological conjuncture, which is why we turned to Don Mitchell to reflect on his research, intellectual practice and the state of academia and activism today. The first section of the interview centers on Mitchell’s research and the tools and methods he employs in his work. In the second section of the interview, we discuss strategies and tactics in resistance struggles, campus activism and radical scholarship. Infused throughout the interview are the influences that have shaped Mitchell’s unique approach to teaching, research and a critical academic life. We conclude with a section on current academic practice.     

eGovernment

Abstract

This article gives an overview of policies and progress on eGovernment in Europe. Propelled by the implementation of the eEurope 2002 Action Plan, collaborative R&D work and the establishment of trans-European telematic networks between EU national administrations, eGovernment applications have developed dramatically in Europe. However, the first achievements will not fulfil their promises if further challenges are not addressed by the decision makers at all levels of government. Top-level leadership and commitment is necessary to deepen eGovernment, not least for the change management needed for reorganisation of government back offices. The transfer of eBusiness practices into the public sector can help to achieve increased productivity and inclusion, by ensuring access for all to government eServices. The Brussels eGovernment Conference in November 2001 highlighted both the quality of existing eGovernment applications and the potential of European cooperation. European administrations are setting new standards as a basis for further progress.     

微信在图书馆服务中的应用研究与实践

微信这种新型信息服务模式具有良好的信息交互能力,图书馆以此为契机不断扩展和创新服务。通过介绍微信的特点,分析了微信应用于图书馆服务的可行性以及在图书馆服务中的具体应用,有针对性地提出基于微信的图书馆APP服务功能设计方案,具有实践应用性。