Community-based forensic child and adolescent mental health services in England,Scotland and Wales: a national mapping exercise

Aim: We sought to ascertain the current nature of specialist community mental health provision for young people presenting with risk of harm to others or involvement with the youth justice system in England, Wales and Scotland. Methods: Questionnaire-based survey. Results: Fifty-five services were contacted, 48 responded and 35 of these were found to be providing some form of community mental health provision to high-risk young people. Thirteen services provided comprehensive community forensic child and adolescent mental health (FCAMH) services, whilst the remainder offered more ad hoc clinical input. Amongst the comprehensive FCAMH services, staffing, function, commissioning arrangements and population served varied widely. Conclusions: There is patchy geographical provision of comprehensive community FCAMH services across England, Scotland and Wales with heterogeneous commissioning arrangements, staffing and function. Development of a national commissioning strategy for community FCAMH services is required to ensure that the complex needs of high-risk young people are adequately addressed.     

Promoting empowerment? The World Bank's Village Investment Project in Kyrgyzstan

This article examines the extent to which the World Bank's community-driven Village Investment Project empowered people to influence the choice of local investments (micro-projects) and to exact accountability from their leaders. It is based on qualitative interviews and group discussions in 16 rural communities. The research demonstrates that the project provided an effective mechanism for responsive infrastructure delivery to address local priority needs. However, it did not improve accountability either within or outside the micro-project boundaries. The project's bottom-up development model was not by itself sufficient to enable people to exercise power over local government officials and informal leaders in the absence of effective horizontal accountability institutions within the state.     

The Politics of Jurisdiction

Jurisdiction is a central concept in the framing of the legal world but it has received short shrift in mainstream legal theory. This article examines the prevailing conceptual forms of jurisdiction in order to retrieve space for the political. The study of jurisdiction is also the study of the political community that it invokes and authorises. The first part of the article examines the three forms that jurisdiction takes in contemporary scholarship (territory, community, governance) to show that each form overlooks some implication of the political community that is tethered to jurisdiction. The second part of the article flips the inquiry to demonstrate the oversight of jurisdiction in theories of sovereign exception. The emergent understanding of jurisdiction as political provides an anchor for the study of jurisdiction going forward and highlights the potential role for jurisdictional arrangements in contemporary public law and constitutional law settings.     

Behavior Research: Improving Social Services for Young People in the Community

This research is based on a social community centre for young people. Researchers have been working together with social workers in carrying out the practical research. Using a process of problem solving, making improvement plans, applying theories into practice, feedback evaluation, and seeking further questions, we are continuously working to improve the quality of social services for young people. We also hope to improve social work methods and the professionalism of social workers.     

刑事司法实践视角下的“人民团体”概念探析

人民团体在我国政治和法律中都是比较重要的概念,在刑事司法方面也多有体现.在97刑法中共有七个条文提及"人民团体"的概念,但令人遗憾的是,对人民团体的概念和具体含义至今都没有权威的解释和准确的阐述.因此,司法实践中如何界定现实生活中的"人民团体"的就成了困扰我们办案人员的一个问题.在文章中,作者从理论解读与司法实务分析两个层面,对人民团体的概念及相关问题作了探讨.     

构建和谐社区的法律思考

社区是社会的细胞,社区和谐是社会和谐的基础之一,构建社会主义和谐社会应从建设和谐社区入手。构建社会主义和谐社区,是一项系统工程,应在把社区自治作为和谐社区建设和发展方向的基础上,建立完善、系统的社区自治法律制度。积极稳妥地推进民主选举、决策、管理及监督。依法加强居委会组织队伍建设和社区基础设施建设,逐步实现社区居民自我教育、自我服务、自我管理、自我监督,创建管理有序、民主和谐的自治型和谐社区。     

社区民警压力的来源及解决措施

社区民警当前承受的压力逐渐加大 ,主要是由于社区民警下段时间得不到保障、责任范围不断扩大、职能部门功能错位和民警素质欠缺所致。对此 ,可以通过推行社区巡访工作模式、明确社区民警工作职责、转变职能部门工作作风和增强民警各项素质来解决。     

论夫妻债务的法律规制

夫妻债务的法律规制,不仅关系到夫妻双方的财产权益,而且关系到第三人债权安全保障的问题,因此,在法律理论上明确夫妻共同债务、夫妻个人债务的各自范围、清偿责任,以及二者在法律上易混淆时的处理依据极为必要。     

论社区矫正的研究对象

由于我国在立法上没有对社区矫正的对象予以明确规定 ,因此 ,社区矫正的研究对象还存在争议。从学理上看 ,社区矫正的研究对象可以分为刑罚惩罚条件下适宜社区矫正的对象、其他条件下适宜社区矫正的对象和行政处罚条件下适宜社区矫正的对象。对这一问题的研究 ,有助于社区矫正的科学定位     

美国社区学院职业教育对我国高职教育的启示

美国社区学院职业教育的发展对我国发展高等职业教育有三个启示 :人们对高等职业教育的接受与认可需要一个过程 ,故我国高等职业教育工作者切不可丧失继续前进的信心 ;社区和学院配合 ,共同培养适应当地经济和社会发展需要的应用型人才 ;高等职业教育发展的趋势必然是加强职业技术教育与学术教育的融合。