监狱内重特大案件危机的解决途径

危机预防和化解是当前监狱工作面临的重大执法责任问题。罪犯结构的复杂化和罪犯个体社会责任意识的淡化．给监狱的安全、稳定带来极大的隐患。新的社会形势要求监狱必须切实履行维护社会稳定的法定职能。根据当前狱内重特大案件的种类、特点、成因，必须强调创新理念，引进“零缺陷”管理等现代管理方法，注重基础防范和执法队伍建设。     

滥用职权罪主体资格探析

司法实践中,社区基层组织成员滥用职权,致使公共财产和人民利益遭受重大损失,能否构成滥用职权罪,在司法实践和刑法理论界均存在争议。文章用真实的案例,对社区基层组织成员如何适用全国人大常委会的两个立法解释,以及是否具有滥用职权罪主体资格进行了分析。     

Screening of Women in Jail for Health Risks and Needs

Abstract

In order to address the relative lack of services for women who come into contact with the criminal justice system, there is a need to develop quick and easily administered screening tools. This pilot study was conducted with 110 women in two urban county jails in Ohio. The purpose of the project was to develop and pilot a quick multidimensional screening instrument for women in jail to identify risk and rehabilitative needs. The project resulted in a 15-item screening tool which can be used in urban crowded jail settings to identify women at risk for health, substance abuse, mental health, family, employment or housing risks.     

我国社区矫正适用条件研究

由于我国社区矫正工作起步较晚,加上社区矫正制度执行上有很多实际问题没有解决,所以社区矫正工作在很多方面还是遇到了一些难题和困境。通过对我国社区矫正的适用条件现状进行研究,提出对我国社区矫正适用条件的完善建议。     

Computer based testing – Bolls v. W. Scott Street,Sec'y of Va. Bd. of Bar Exmnrs., August 11, 2009, case no. 090915

The most significant change to law licensing in the United States is the recent¹ reliance on computer-based testing for the bar exam in all of the fifty states. The following comment piece is meant to inform the computer and technology law community how the use of testing software must necessarily be accompanied by additional procedural protections and corrective processes that may not have existed previously. Chief among these is the availability of discovery of the item in question, namely in this case the essays in a computer-based bar exam, which constitutes evidence that is essential to vindicating one's rights when a software failure occurs.     

Time's Up

This study tests general strain theory among a sample of 216 incarcerated women. Incarcerated women cope with many strains in prison. They frequently rely on social support from other inmates as coping mechanisms. Some even form pseudofamilies. Such relationships may impact the level of strain and negative emotions these women experience and the misconduct they engage in. The purpose of this study is to explore what relationship (if any) exists between strain, anger, depression, institutional misconduct, and pseudofamily membership. Findings suggest limited support for general strain theory and highlight the importance of women's past victimizations and impulsivity in predicting their misconduct.     

Book review

This article looks at the vast contributions political philosopher Hal Pepinsky has made to effecting a peaceful, needs‐meeting vision of justice in the academic fields of criminology and criminal justice over the past three decades. The article examines his life's work as reflected in his most recent book, Peacemaking: Reflections of a Radical Criminologist. This work demonstrates that those who push the boundaries of scholarly disciplines, such as he has done, sometimes find themselves in conflict with those most invested in controlling the allocation of the rewards those disciplines mete out. As Professor Pepinsky increasingly became an outsider he took the risk of taking on the burdens of other outsiders whose pain and suffering the vast majority of his academic colleagues turned their eyes from.     

Scandinavian Prospects for a Place‐Based Randomized Experiment on Burglary Reduction

Despite their widespread implementation, there is a surprising absence of clear‐cut, unambiguous evidence concerning the effectiveness of situational crime prevention approaches (e.g. alarms, neighborhood watch, property‐marking) on residential burglary. This absence of evidence—which should not be confused with a presence of contradictory evidence—stems most notably from the fact that very few of the programs enacted to date have been evaluated under controlled, experimental conditions. The current article describes problems with previous evaluations and advocates the use of a place‐based, randomized experimental design—which this author argues should be easier to implement in Scandinavia than elsewhere.     

对我国社区矫正适用范围的质疑——以社区矫正的性质为视角

对社区矫正的适用范围的划定应当与社区矫正的性质以及我国现行的刑罚制度相一致。社区矫正是一种社会化的刑罚执行活动。根据是否具备社会化行刑条件这一标准,假释制度、缓刑制度与管制刑制度完全具备社会化行刑的条件;暂予监外执行制度部分具备社会化行刑的条件;而被剥夺政治权利的监外服刑人不具有社会化行刑的条件。