Reducing Domestic Violence and Improving Outcomes for Children: Funding Civil Legal Aid to Maximize Impact

Domestic violence survivors and children in foster care often experience significant unmet civil legal needs. Legal aid services, when adequately funded, can help close the justice gap for these two populations while improving safety, stability, and court efficiencies. However, despite ample literature demonstrating how legal aid can improve outcomes, almost half of those seeking legal aid services are turned away due to lack of resources. This article reviews the research and data about how legal aid can improve outcomes for people in the domestic violence and child welfare contexts. It also discusses how several state‐administered federal funding opportunities—including the Victims of Crime Act (VOCA) Victim Assistance Formula Grant Program, Title IV‐D child support funds, and Temporary Assistance for Needy Families (TANF) basic block grants—can fund the needed civil legal help.     

Understanding Parental Gatekeeping in Families with a Special Needs Child

Supporting the positive development of a special needs child is especially challenging when parents have separated or divorced. Invariably, there is an increased need for collaborative co‐parenting wherein information is shared and intervention plans can be implemented effectively. In this article, the evolving literature on parental gatekeeping is applied to families with special needs children, as it offers a useful model for understanding the strengths and liabilities of co‐parenting relationships. We describe some of the typical and unique gatekeeping dynamics that occur when children suffer from developmental, physical, and/or psychiatric syndromes that require specific treatment and specialized parenting skills. Examples of both restrictive and facilitative gatekeeping are described as they manifest in these families. Implications for decision making are also discussed.     

中国现代物流法制环境建设

本文分析了中国物流业发展及其法制环境的现状,指出中国物流业正处于从传统物流转向现代物流的过渡时期,良好的物流法制环境对于中国物流业的发展具有重要的制度支持与保护作用。在中国物流业法制建设的过程中,政府的作用举足轻重,物流法制环境建设涉及管理体制、基础设施建设、物流服务、市场准入和市场竞争等诸多方面。中国目前应当着手制定《物流业管理条例》,引导我国物流业健康发展。     

Fighting corruption in public procurement in post-communist states: Obstacles and solutions

Anti-corruption efforts in Europe’s post-communist states have been less successful than anticipated. Criticism has been raised against the role of the international community in promoting anti-corruption programmes. Besides, such programmes have been deemed vague and “all-inclusive”. They have largely failed to address local factors “informing” corrupt behaviour in post-communist states, such as (a) negative perceptions of law, and (b) informal practice.‘ I'd be grateful if you could retain the original sentence as it is more precise.     

Transdisciplinary innovation research in Uzbekistan – one year of ‘Follow-the-Innovation’

In 2008, a German-funded interdisciplinary research project in Khorezm province, Uzbekistan, initiated a participatory approach to innovation development and diffusion with local stakeholders. Selected agricultural innovations, developed by the project and identified as ‘plausible promises’, have since then been tested and modified accordingly by teams of researchers, local farmers and water users. This paper discusses the challenges faced in this process of joint experimentation and learning between researchers and local stakeholders whose behaviours, attitudes and actions are heavily shaped by the local context, academic discipline and hierarchical culture of knowledge governance.     

Digital technology uses for sustainable management of natural resources in multicultural contexts

This article questions the notion that the use of digital technologies guarantees better policy development for the sustainable management of natural resources, particularly in multicultural contexts. It is argued that input of digital technologies could positively or negatively affect the geopolitical projects and development strategies pursued by indigenous peoples.     

A confluence of Fair Trade and organic agriculture in southern India

Although the confluence of Fair Trade and organic agriculture has become a salient phenomenon, they contradict each other at the production level: Fair Trade focuses on specific products, while organic agriculture targets production units. This article explores how Southern small-scale producers cope with this discrepancy, by observing one farmers' group's attempt to obtain the two certifications in India. This case study identifies stakeholders who react to the two certifications differently under different livelihood strategies. Combining the two initiatives may not always be the best practice for realising poverty reduction and environmental conservation –aims which the initiatives have in common.     

Monitoring gendered outcomes of environmental and development policies

Environmental and development policies used to be considered gender-neutral. Women's needs and interests were perceived to be identical to those of men. Empirical research has more recently asserted that policies that were thought to be gender-neutral were actually gender-blind and, therefore, either inadequate or inappropriate to capture the impacts upon women of environmental and development policies. This article presents a range of practical tools and mechanisms that may be used to monitor environmental and development issues from a gender perspective. It also outlines key strategies through which governments, NGOs, and donor agencies may assess the impact of such policies on women.     

违反行政法义务的责任:在行政处罚与刑罚之间——基于《行政处罚法》第7条第2款之规定而展开的分析

具有刑罚后果的违反行政法义务的行为,在具有相同的行政处罚和刑罚构成要件的情况下,应当从区分行政处罚和刑罚的决定因素与适用的两个面向,根据行为的情节、后果、条件、数量和主体等因素确定给予行政处罚抑或刑罚。在处理程序上,基于"行政→刑事"和"刑事→行政"正反两个程序模式的架构,从它们的启动要件、运作步骤和程序效力等方面,解释现行相关规定的实质内容,揭示两种法律责任的程序衔接部分的法律框架。     

行政法:中国特色社会主义法律体系之重要特色

社会主义法治建设工程启动并已经初步造就成为我国取得的诸多举世瞩目成就领域中最突出的一项。社会主义法治建设工程首在立法,并坚持权为民所赋、权为民所用。社会主义法律体系是开放发展的体系,它将随着法治工程建设的进展而自我完善。我国法治建设任务的重点就是实现行政法治,就是建设中国特色的法治政府。中国特色社会主义法律体系的完善和成熟将集中体现在中国特色行政法律体系的完善和成熟方面。