Treating high-risk rapists in a New Zealand intensive prison programme

The focus of this article is on the pilot development and implementation of a prison-based intensive treatment programme for high-risk adult-victim rape offenders in New Zealand. Advances in actuarial risk assessment enabled the identification of a group of high-risk adult sex offenders for whom no dedicated treatment programme existed. Based on a review of the treatment literature for rapists, a pilot programme was developed called the Adult Sex Offender Treatment Programme (ASOTP). The programme, based on the risk–need–responsivity and cognitive behavioural therapy principles, also used an adaptation of Young's schema therapy to address personality responsivity issues and specific idiosyncratic schema associated with participant offence pathways identified by the Massachusetts Treatment Centre classification (Version 3 for rapists). Measures of responsivity and dynamic risk administered in the ASOTP indicated some success in addressing treatment needs for the pilot participants (n=10). The programme has subsequently been expanded across prison specialist treatment unit sites and delivered to a further 52 participants. Although intermediate measures continue to indicate change in dynamic risk, recidivism outcome evaluations have not yet been possible, due to low numbers of paroled participants.     

A cognitive-based indicator of deviant sexual interest: Concurrent validation of the Stroop task

ABSTRACT

One of the strongest predictors of sexual recidivism is sexual deviance [Hanson, R. K., & Bussière, M. T. (1998). Predicting relapse: A meta-analysis of sexual offender recidivism studies. Journal of Consulting and Clinical Psychology, 66, 348–362. doi:10.1037/0022-006X.66.2.348]. Phallometric testing, the most commonly used method of assessing sexual deviance, has elicited methodological and ethical criticisms, while self-report is vulnerable to social desirability and poor insight. To overcome these limitations, researchers have utilised cognitive measures, including a modified Stroop task, to measure deviant sexual interests among sex offenders using victim selection as a comparison measure. However, the results have been inconclusive. The current study explored the validity of the modified Stroop task as a measure of deviant sexual interest among a non-offending sample of 570 females and 223 male participants, using self-report as the comparison measure. The results indicated a significant gender difference in concurrent validity; there was a significant relationship between self-reported deviance and deviant word Stroop performance for male but not for female respondents, suggesting the Stroop is a viable option for assessing sexual deviance among males. Implications of these findings are discussed relative to sexual recidivism risk assessment.     

侦查管理研究述论——兼析侦查管理学学科性质和研究对象

侦查管理就是以破案为目标的组织利用侦查资源的一系列决策过程,它针对特定案件侦破活动的管理,不包括侦查机关日常的组织行政管理。可以从案件侦破流程、侦查要素、具体侦查行为三个层面考察侦查管理。侦查管理学应为公安学和管理学的交叉学科,是公安学的三级学科,其研究对象为侦查管理的规律。     

司法鉴定在刑事侦查中的运用

司法鉴定在侦查中对案件事实证明发挥积极作用的同时,也引发错误认定事实的风险。近年来,侦查中运用司法鉴定的比例有所提升,但刑事错案的背后揭示鉴定样本的收集过程在规范化、程序化方面做得还不够。鉴定意见随着案卷进入后续程序,并对案件事实的认定发挥证明作用。侦查中的司法鉴定存在运用尚不充分、样本的收集保管不够规范、司法人员迷信鉴定意见等问题。其进路在于进一步提高侦查中的鉴定技术含量,规范鉴定样本的收集程序,转变对鉴定意见迷信的观念。     

进步与不足：新刑事诉讼法技术侦查措施规定之反思

在新刑事诉讼法中规定技术侦查措施有重要意义。其进步之处是体现了重罪原则、人权保护原则、程序法定原则和必要性原则。其不足的地方是概念不清,条件范围不明确,适用程序模糊,缺乏明确的监督救济程序,对隐藏身份及控制下交付的秘密侦查规定过于原则和抽象,有关技术侦查措施所获得证据庭外核实的规定不足。要坚持合目的性、手段节制原则、程序法定原则。同时,要通过司法解释明确适用程序、救济程序和监督程序。     

侦查协作的碎片化分析及其整体性治理模式

侦查协作是应对当前刑事犯罪特点和发展趋势所采取的一项有效的组织措施,但是我国目前的侦查协作情况却不容乐观。引入新公共管理中的“碎片化”概念,从六大维度分析我国侦查协作的现状,进而从整体性治理这一社会治理模式的视角出发,提出侦查协作的完善思路与方法。侦查协作的整体性治理对策包括加强侦查协作的整体性认识、侦查协作的整合、侦查协作主体之间的协作治理,侦查协作信息系统的建立、利用,建立和完善侦查协作的评估、监督和反馈机制。     

规范检察机关参与非法证据排除程序探析

新《刑事诉讼法》对非法证据排除进行了相关规定,明确了检察机关参与非法证据排除主体性地位。检察机关参与非法证据排除意义重大,有利于从根源上防止非法证据的出现,也有利于克服我国一元制庭审模式的弊端,从而规避非法证据进入庭审对法官的影响,确保法官公正审判,维护司法正义。这就迫切需要对检察机关参与非法证据程序进行规范,才能以之指导检察实践。     

论网上反拐卖妇女儿童

网上反拐卖妇女儿童是一项针对拐卖妇女、儿童犯罪的综合治理对策,它意味着工作方式的转变、工作内容的延伸、工作成效的强化、工作机制的完善和工作方法的发展.因此,网上“反拐”具有传统方式的“打拐”或“反拐”所不具备的优势,即减弱了侦查打击工作的零散性,提升了“反拐”工作的规范性,降低了侦查打击的能耗性,提高了“反拐”工作的效能性,淡化了侦查打击工作的孤立性,强化了“反拐”工作的整体性.网上“反拐”的主要侦查措施是网上侦查,具体包括网上信息查询、网上追逃、视频侦查、互联网的网上侦查等.     

检察机关参与社会管理创新的路径--以法律监督实践为视角

社会管理与检察工作密切相关,既是检察机关履行职责的重要内容、发挥职能的重要领域,也是检察机关必须承担的重要社会责任。检察职能具有多样性,参与加强和创新社会管理的路径也有多种。根据法律规定和检察实践,以执法办案为依托,完善检察环节的各项工作机制,配合相关部门深化犯罪预防、制发检察建议、完善行政执法与刑事司法衔接机制、参与社会管理综合治理、参与“两新组织”和虚拟社会的服务管理,是检察机关参与社会管理创新的有效路径。     

言语识别技术发展的制约因素和破解途径

言语识别技术从产生至今已经得到了长足的发展。但是从当前言语识别技术本身及从事言语识别技术的人员来看,言语识别技术的发展和运用未能跟上信息化社会和司法实践的迫切需求。应更为深入而成熟地拓展和运用言语识别技术,以期解决影响和制约言语识别技术发展的相关因素。