Saved By the Bell: Reclaiming Home Court Advantage for At‐Risk Youth Funneled into the School‐to‐Prison Pipeline

Far too often, minority students are faced with punitive disciplinary actions and are consequently directed to the “school‐to‐prison” pipeline. From education to discipline, implementation of policies that criminalize minor delinquent behavior pushes these students out of school and into the juvenile justice system. Traditional disciplinary actions that would land students in the principal's office have gradually transformed to students being handcuffed and thrown in jail. This Note proposes a model statute requiring states with a high criminal delinquency rate to implement school‐based youth courts in public high schools.     

中国经济刑法法益:认知、反思与建构

当前基于秩序、利益、自由等表述的经济刑法法益学说在认知进路上存在问题,无法形成本体和功能自洽的法益观。应当承认集体法益的独立性,立足法益二元论对经济刑法法益进行本体重塑与功能展开。它勾连宪法,是保障在经济领域中实现个人自由的外部条件的统一体,也是经济秩序市场经济规范保护的客体。法益不是刑法独有的保护目标,仅根据法益标准难以有效区分刑事不法与行政不法。经济刑法的犯罪化应坚持保护适格的集体法益,同时更加注重合比例原则和明确性原则的补充与限制。经本体重塑的经济刑法法益兼具体系超越与体系内在功能,有助于在反思当下中国经济刑法立法与司法的基础上,重构经济刑法的立法理念与犯罪化标准,厘清经济犯罪的类型与解释原理。     

二战前中马贸易关系中的华侨因素

二战以前,马来亚的华侨不仅人口众多、经济实力雄厚,而且其经济活动遍及马来亚的生产领域和分配领域的各个方面,因而在对马来亚的社会经济发展产生重要影响的同时,也对中国与马来亚的贸易关系发展产生了巨大的影响,在沟通和增进中国与马来亚的贸易往来方面具有举足轻重的地位和不可替代的作用.     

罪犯再社会化与罪犯教育制度

教育、改造罪犯就是对罪犯进行再社会化,但是监狱对于实现上述目标而言作用有限。故此,需要从整体上反思现有的罪犯教育制度,调整罪犯教育活动的目标、限制罪犯教育的对象范围、更新罪犯教育的内容。     

试论工商行政管理职能转变的实质和方向

改革开放以来 ,工商行政管理在监督对象、目标、领域和方式等方面发生了一系列变化 ,其实质是经济体制转变对政府职能转变的要求。今后应在把握体制转变方向的基础上 ,重视相关制度创新 ,才能完成这些转变 ,建立真正与市场经济体制相适应的市场监管新体制     

不同寻常的英国司法

在三种国家权力中,司法权是最不起眼的一种,其功能和作用一般说来都不如立法权和行政权那样成效显著和引人注目。但在英国,司法权却发挥了不同寻常的巨大作用,特别是在推进法治进程方面,堪称厥功甚伟。司法不但是引领英国法治文明的火车头,而且是支撑现代英国法治大厦的顶梁柱。英国司法之所以能够独树一帜,盖因其自身具有功能强大、结构优良、发展优先三大优势。     

服刑人员权利之法律保障探究--兼论现行《监狱法》的不足与完善

如果说刑法是犯罪人的大宪章，那么《监狱法》就应该是服刑人员的大宪章。作为刑事法律体系的组成部分，《监狱法》既规定监狱的刑罚执行权和狱政管理权，同时又规定了在押服刑人员的权利。然而《监狱法》实施20年来，由于其规定的过于粗疏、而且未就“服刑人员权利及其救济”专章规定，导致行刑实践中监狱执法者随意性较大，服刑人员的权利不能得到完全保障，监狱侵犯服刑人员权利的事件时有发生。本文在分析现行《监狱法》在服刑人员权利保障方面的不足的基础上，试图提出《监狱法》在完善服刑人员权利保障方面的一些修改建议。     

Static risk factors predict sexual misconduct among incarcerated female sexual offenders

Abstract

Although there has been a great deal of research conducted on sexual offenders in recent years, the vast majority of studies have focused on male perpetrators. Little is known about female sexual perpetrators, due primarily to the small number of offenders/offences and sociocultural factors. This study evaluated if there was an association between static risk factors [as delineated by the Static-99 and Rapid Risk Assessment for Sex Offender Recidivism (RRASOR)] and institutional sexual misconduct for incarcerated female sexual offenders. In addition to demographic information, total Static scores were obtained from a file review along with institutional conduct reports. The STATIC-99 and RRASOR scores from intake information significantly predicted sexual conduct reports in prison.     

Introduction

In Sweden, female prison officers are a long-established fact. Today women make up about 38% of the prison officer work-force. However, the distribution of sexes in the organization is quite uneven between different types of prison wings and units, and at the in-group level there is an informal gendered division of labour going on. The article deals with how a gendered division of labour comes about as a result of socially established motives and notions among prison officers, as well as prisoners, about men's and women's different qualities in performing different types of work tasks. It is based on data from a minor interview study (from 2006), and a 3-year multi-strategic research project containing qualitative case-studies and a nationwide survey (from 2007–2009). The article concludes that a great number of female officers contribute to a more prominent position for the rehabilitative side of prison work. However, the on-going gendered division of labour in and between wings and units is also one important factor behind sub-cultural differentiation and variations in work practices in the prison organization. A more balanced distribution of the sexes would stimulate rehabilitative work and a more unified view of the occupational role throughout the whole organization.