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.     

弱势群体对社会稳定的影响

我国目前弱势群体在承受“弱势”所带来的种种伤害的同时,正以一种极具破坏性的 方式表达为“强势”,并迫使社会在承受和消弭其影响时支付日益高昂的成本。这种社会机器内部 的撞击,已经严重地影响了整体运行的安全性和稳定性,而确立公平则是解决问题的前提和基础。     

我国城市社区民主治理的困境与出路

积极推进城市社区民主治理对我国的民主政治建设和法治进程具有重要而深远的影响,但宥于我国历史传统和民主法治国情,城市社区民主治理仍存在民主权利与民主需求、民主需求与民主实践、民主实践与民主权利之间不相协调的问题,使得社区民主治理陷入权利-需求-实践的困境,这严重阻碍着中国城市社区建设及基层民主政治的健康发展。当务之急是结合我国实际,完善民主权利,满足民主需求,深化民主实践,积极探索具有我国特色的城市社区民主治理之路。     

北京市城市文明社区创建工作面临的新情况和新问题——对月坛、新街口、德胜门外三街道和居委会成员的调查

本依据第一手调查资料,描述北京市明社区创建工作中出现的新情况和新问题;并指出明社区创建工作需要着重解决的问题和长期创建需要做的基础性工作。     

我国城市社区直接选举探究

社区居委会直接选举作为扩大基层民主的有效形式,已经成为全面推进城市基层民主的突破口,受到社会各界越来越多的关注。本文选取社区居委会直接选举中的两个环节进行分析,梳理了社区选举过程中的程序规范及存在问题,以期进一步推进城市社区居委会直接选举的程序化、公平化。     

城市社区治理中软法作用研究

城市社区治理是我国社会基层治理重要组成部分。基层治理现代化和法治化离不开硬法与软法合力的作用。我国软法理论与实践起步较晚,软法在基层治理中独特作用没有得到充分重视和释放。充分认识软法的内涵、特征及相关理论基础,重新评估软法在基层自治中的特殊作用即完善社区治理法律体系、弥补社区治理硬法不足、有效保障社区自治实现。针对我国目前城市社区治理软法存在的主要问题,提出健全软法规范体系、协调软法与硬法关系、强化软法实施保障机制等建议,从而充分发挥软法在城市社区治理应有的作用。     

论我国社区矫正回避制度的构建

刑事诉讼中的回避制度是确保刑事案件得到公正处理的程序设置。建立社区矫正行刑中的回避制度,使得在社区中服刑的矫正对象能够得到公正、公平的刑罚惩罚,受到公正、公平的处遇,这也是程序公正的必然内容。针对矫正对象与社区行刑执法人员以及矫正社会工作者之间的特殊关系而实行回避,是保护矫正对象合法权益的重要举措,也是社区矫正行刑制度完善的内在要求。     

论社区矫正在刑罚中的运用

《中华人民共和国刑法修正案（八）》规定对判处管制、宣告缓刑、被假释的犯罪分子实施社区矫正,但对社区矫正如何执行并未做具体规定。针对社区矫正试点工作中存在的问题,应着重从社区矫正立法、执法理念及适用范围等方面,探讨如何进一步完善我国社区矫正制度。