Residential Concentrations of Rural Registered Sex Offenders

This research employs social disorganization theory to examine the residential locations of registered sex offenders in rural areas. Data was gathered on 728 non-incarcerated registered sex offenders (RSOs) in the Appalachia region of Eastern Kentucky (41 counties total). Census tract data was used to assess the degree of social disorganization of residential locations of RSOs and to compare census tracts with high concentrations of registered sex offenders to the counties in which RSOs reside, the nation as a whole, and census tracts with low concentrations of RSOs. Results show that although there are significant social disorganization indicators present, there are few relationships between RSO residence and increased levels of social disorganization.     

当代国际经济法的人文关怀

第二次世界大战后,由于受可持续发展等当代世界主流思想的影响,国际经济法律制度日益关注商业基本道德、人类的共同发展和可持续发展,呈现出浓厚的人文关怀的气息.     

INVISIBLE PARTIES: LISTENING TO CHILDREN

This article discusses how children are involved in family court proceedings in New Zealand. On July 1, 2005, the Care of Children Act 2004 came into force. One of the changes brought about by this Act is an increased expectation that children will participate in proceedings involving them, by the court giving the child a reasonable opportunity to express his or her view. Children may participate in three ways, the primary mechanism being through the lawyer for the child. Children's views can also be elucidated through a specialist report, and direct participation can be achieved through judicial interviews. As each child is different, it is important that the unique circumstances of the case are accounted for. This article will discuss how each of the three methods can be combined to tailor an approach that gives every individual child a reasonable opportunity to express his or her view. There are a number of examples given of this approach in practice, showing how the court has adapted the process to accommodate the child's situation and personality.     

新加坡医疗保障体系运行机制及现状评述

新加坡政府创造性的建立了储蓄型医疗保险制度,取得了较好的效果。本文通过对新加坡保健储蓄计划、健保双全计划、乐龄保健计划和保健基金运行机制分析,发现新加坡医疗保障体系具有以"个人负责"作为制度设计总理念,精细化管理,体现公平正义理念,具有服务型社会治理内涵,进行积极调节,具有激励约束机制的特点。     

关于面向基层就业的医学本科生就业能力现状的调查研究

目前社会各界一直在强调大学生要面向基层就业,医学本科生要面向基层医疗卫生机构就业,就医学本科毕业生能否很好地符合基层医疗卫生机构的用人要求、目前基层医疗卫生机构真正需要哪一类医学人才等问题,作了一系列基础调研。     

驻扎官与马来亚——《弗兰克·瑞天咸爵士的马来亚日记(1874-1876)》研究

驻扎官制度是英国在马来亚实行殖民统治的特征,驻扎官在英国殖民统治中扮演了非常重要的角色.本文以弗兰克·瑞天成为个案,探讨他在驻扎官制度初期的殖民策略,并利用马克思关于殖民主义"双重使命"的学说,分析他在英属马来亚历史上的作用,肯定其对推动马来亚历史发展的作用.     

Empirical Modeling of Policy Diffusion in Federal States: The Dyadic Approach

Policy diffusion is a common phenomenon in federal states: indeed, one of the normative justifications of decentralized policy making is that it permits the development and spread of best practices. Following Berry and Berry (1990), event‐history analysis has been the method of choice for the quantitative investigation of policy diffusion, but Volden (2006) has recently introduced a dyadic variant of this method in which units of analysis are not states but, instead, pairs of states. This article discusses the dyadic approach with a particular focus on the diffusion of policies in Switzerland. The goal is not to introduce a new method, but rather to provide a practical overview for researchers interested in using it. The article shows how the method has migrated from the international relations literature to the policy‐diffusion literature, describes the typical structure of a dyadic dataset in a diffusion context, and discusses several modeling issues. The usefulness of the dyadic approach is illustrated empirically with the example of health‐insurance subsidy policies in Swiss cantons.     

市民社会与民法的互动关联

市民社会与民法的关系是近年来法学界研讨的论题之一。通过一种历时性的理论考察,能够揭示市民社会与民法的互动关联,指出市民社会孕育与推动了民法的成长与丰富;民法规范与保障了市民社会有秩序的自由发展;政治国家与市民社会关系的变化对民法的影响,以及民法在二者关系中所起的平衡作用。     

The 2012 sandy hook elementary school shooting: Connecticut’s department of mental health crisis response

This article reports on the role, activities, and lessons learned of a state mental health authority—the Connecticut Department of Mental Health and Addiction Services—in responding to the mental health needs of families and community members following the 2012 Sandy Hook Elementary School shooting. Following the introduction, we provide a brief case study of Department of Mental Health and Addiction Services’ role in the aftermath of the Sandy Hook shooting. This role included use of the Incident Command System (ICS) to deploy a standing statewide network of clinicians who provided direct care for surviving children and school personnel, victims’ family members, and others, and coordination of its mental health response with the activities of other state, private, and individual players. We then discuss key themes and lessons learned and offer recommendations to mental health authorities for planning and implementing their own responses to possible like incidents in the future.     

Contact,welfare and children in care: revisiting the significance of birth family relationships after finding significant harm

The focus of this paper is the issue of continuing birth family involvement in the child’s life once the child is living in care. Drawing on a psychosocial study and free association narrative interviews with care leavers it focuses on the harm to a young woman called Frances, caused by direct contact with her birth family and the cessation of such contact. The paper addresses the tension between these two types of harm, in particular the role of contact in safeguarding and promoting the welfare of children in care. It presents an argument for the child’s care plan to emphasise the need for ongoing review of the role and impact of the child’s close relationships and contact with their birth family once the child is in care. This includes ongoing consideration of the child’s changing relationship with the birth mother and siblings with a view to reconciliation in young adulthood.