歧视与平等机会的法律透视

平等机会就是人们参与社会政治、经济等活动,根据一定的标准和原则,平等地拥有争取或获得某种资源的可能性.这种机会的获得不因某种身份状况而得到不公平的待遇.歧视就是基于某类人所具有的某种身份状况,以不合理的或不相干的理由,给他人以较差的待遇,从而使其利益受损的行为.歧视的后果就是使他人丧失争取或获得资源的平等机会.反歧视是实现平等机会的重要措施.     

THE CASCADING EFFECTS OF ADOLESCENT GANG INVOLVEMENT ACROSS THE LIFE COURSE*

The short‐run deleterious effects of gang involvement during adolescence have been well researched. However, surprisingly little empirical attention has been devoted to understanding how gang involvement in adolescence influences life chances and criminal behavior in adulthood. Drawing on the life‐course perspective, this study argues that gang involvement will lead to precocious transitions that, in turn, will have adverse consequences on the fulfillment of adulthood roles and statuses in the economic and family spheres. Moreover, problems fulfilling these conventional roles are hypothesized then to lead to sustained involvement in criminal behavior in adulthood. Using data from a sample of males from the Rochester Youth Development Study, results from structural equation models support the indirect link between gang membership and noncriminal and criminal outcomes in adulthood. Specifically, gang involvement leads to an increase in the number of precocious transitions experienced that result in both economic hardship and family problems in adulthood. These failures in the economic and family realms, in turn, contribute to involvement in street crime and/or arrest in adulthood. Implications for the criminal desistance process are discussed.     

法律适用不平等及其解决之道

平等权在我国《宪法》中表述为“法律面前一律平等”,在《人民法院组织法》、《人民检察院组织法》和三大诉讼法中被具体化为“在适用法律上一律平等”。而司法实践中,法律适用不平等问题突出,严重制约社会公平正义的实现。通过司法解释将“法律适用不平等”作为“适用法律确有错误”的情形之一,作为法定再审理由,可以解决适用法律不平等的难题。     

论我国注射死刑的平等适用

目前,我国在执行注射死刑时存在不能完全平等适用的问题。这种不平等适用体现为不同身份的死刑犯适用不平等、不同地区的死刑犯适用不平等、不同罪行的死刑犯适用不平等等方面。注射死刑不平等适用违反了法律面前人人平等原则,引起社会的诸多质疑。而注射死刑未平等适用的原因较为复杂,既因立法上存在漏洞,又受到注射成本过高,地方司法机关推动力度不够,民众报应观念较强等因素制约。     

刑满释放人员就业歧视问题探究

刑满释放人员因受就业歧视、失业而再犯的问题越来越多,理应受到我们的关注。对刑满释放人员的就业歧视的原因在哪,是否具有合理性？文章从反就业歧视一般原理及刑罚理论论证其不合理性,并分析刑满释放人员就业权平等保护的意义。最后提出应从营造平等保护制度环境、强化歧视法律责任和实施积极行动等方面来保障刑满释放人员的平等就业权。     

侵权行为法对权利与利益保护的比较法分析

侵权行为法是民法的重要组成部分,是保护民事主体民事权益,制裁民事违法行为,推动文明进步和社会发展的重要法律武器。“传统上侵权行为法的保护客体仅为绝对权。现今已扩张至将相对权以及权利外利益包括在内。虽在保护客体上主要国家取得了一致,但在对权利与利益的保护程度上,世界范围内却有两种相对的立法例：差别保护立法例与平等保护立法例,从侵权行为法中的价值衡量出发。对比两种立法例可知平等保护立法例较之差别保护立法例更为可取。     

危难救助者的行政补偿研究

在现实生活中,危难救助者的损失往往得不到应有的赔偿或补偿,导致人们对危难救助行为心存疑虑.然而,随着风险社会的出现及其程度不断加深,在防范和化解风险过程中,一种最有效的途径无疑是让社会大众共同分担救助他人的义务,这相当于为国家履行职责.因此,国家的责任不可或缺.根据行政补偿理论中的公共负担平等说,国家应当对危难救助者给予行政补偿,以弥补其因救助行为所造成的损失.     

A review of the role of radical feminist theories in the understanding of rape myth acceptance

Abstract

Research into rape myth acceptance (RMA) first emerged in the 1970s, when authors such as Brownmiller (1975) and Burt (1980) proposed that rape was a mechanism that allowed men to exert power over women and that the endorsement of rape myths justified this sexual dominance. These influential theories have meant that subsequent definitions of rape myths have failed to acknowledge male victims of serious sexual assault, despite an increase in prevalence rates. More recent research has attempted to explore RMA in relation to male victims, with results suggesting that men are more likely than women to endorse rape myths regarding male victims when the victim is assumed to be homosexual, or when the victim is heterosexual and the perpetrator is female. Brownmiller's theory is challenged and a more holistic view of the importance of sex-role traditionality is explored, while acknowledging the contribution of individual factors relating to the development of RMA.     

The true servant: Self-definition of male domestics in an Italian city (Bologna, 17th–19th centuries)

Some historians have classed as servants only people living with their masters; some have excluded farm servants; some have included married domestics living with their own families. The archive of the Bolognese Confraternity of San Vitale, also known as Università dei Servitori, is analyzed in this article to show how one group of servants defined a “true” servant. Their solution was to exclude from their association people who performed what they deemed “filthy” tasks. They also excluded women, giving us a particular insight in the history of gender and masculinity. In their view, the “true” servants were bourgeois (and locally born) men rather than lower class (migrant) women who are often identified as the stereotypical servants. Moreover, most members of the association were married, they had their own families in Bologna and did not always live with their masters. This makes possible the analysis of married male servants living with their own families, a category of servant that has received less attention than life-cycle servants.     

After father's death: Authority and conflict in the eighteenth-century French household

This article argues that Parisian widows, in taking over a guiding role in the household, upset normative gender roles. One result of that change was violence in the household between widows and their adult sons. In asserting their authority, widows found unlikely allies in the institutions of the State, legal structures and the guild system. Ultimately, widows' roles in their families demonstrated the ways that gender roles were fluid in lived experience, as opposed to the ways they were articulated in rhetorical texts.