Risk and Protective Factors Associated with Alcohol,Cigarette, and Marijuana Use During Adolescence

The purpose of this study was to increase the knowledge base of adolescent substance use by examining the influences of risk and protective factors for specific substance use, namely alcohol, cigarettes, and marijuana. Participants included 271 adolescents and their primary caregivers referred for mental health services across North Carolina. A series of hierarchical multiple regressions showed that the relative influences of risk and protective factors differed depending on the target substance in some cases. History of parental felony predicted use of all 3 substances, although the direction of association was substance specific. Parental behavioral control (how families express and maintain standards of behavior) was predictive only of cigarette and marijuana use, not alcohol use. The different links among risk factors, protective factors, and specific substance use are discussed, and recommendations for both mental health and substance use professionals are offered.She received her M.A. in Psychology from Wake Forest University and is currently a doctoral student in Clinical Psychology at the University of North Carolina at Greensboro. Her major research interests include developmental pathways to aggressive behavior among females.An evaluator for the North Carolina Department of Health and Human Services, her major research interests include system of care intervention programming.She received her PhD in Clinical Psychology from Purdue University. Her major research interests include developmental psychopathology and early intervention.His research interests focus on youth violence and youth involved with the juvenile justice system.She received her PhD in Clinical Psychology from the University of North Carolina at Greensboro. Her research interests focus on early intervention with young children.     

Measurement Properties of the Communities That Care<Superscript>®</Superscript> Youth Survey Across Demographic Groups

Prevention science has produced information about risk and protective factors that predict adolescent drug use and related problem behaviors. This paper investigates the Communities That Care Youth Survey that measures multiple risk and protective factors. Using a sample of 172,628 students who participated in surveys administered in seven states in 1998, analyses were conducted to test the factor structure of these risk and protective factors and to test the equivalence of the factor models across five racial/ethnic groups (African Americans, Asians or Pacific Islanders, Caucasians, Hispanic Americans, and Native Americans), four grade levels (6th, 8th, 10th, and 12th) and both gender groups. Results support the construct validity of the surveys risk and protective factor scales and indicate that the measures are equally reliable across males and females and five racial/ethnic groups. Implications of these findings for science-based prevention planning are discussed.     

Personality Pathways to Impulsive Behavior and Their Relations to Deviance: Results from Three Samples

The importance of the relation between impulsivity and deviance is well-acknowledged among criminologists. However, differences in the representations of impulsivity, some merely titular and others substantive, may cloud our understanding of these relations. The current study examines the argument, offered by Whiteside and Lynam Pers. Individuals Diff. (2000) 30: 669–689, that there may be four distinct personality pathways through which impulsive behavior may be manifested. Across three samples (two undergraduate, one community), we examine the validity of a four-factor structure of impulsivity, test whether these four pathways manifest divergent relations with various forms of deviant behavior such as crime and substance use, as well as laboratory manifestations of aggressive and impulsive behavior, and examine the invariance of these results across gender. The results support the existence of a four-factor model of impulsivity, the importance of two specific personality pathways in relation to self-reports of deviance (lack of premeditation and sensation seeking), as well as actual behavior, and suggest that these pathways are important for both men and women.     

析俄罗斯煤炭运输的发展前景

能源供应的可靠性和战略稳定性要求俄罗斯在能源领域必须实现燃料—能源资源的部门结构和分布多元化。煤炭运输未来发展的预测是根据“2 0 2 0年前俄罗斯的能源战略”制定的 ,该战略确定了燃料由目前占绝对优势的碳氢化合物 (石油和天然气 )向煤炭、核能和再生材料过渡的进程。同时 ,能源战略的一些指标应该考虑到经济和能源中长期发展计划的可行性和实现性。建立国家未来的起支撑作用的运输网的首要任务 ,是修筑北西伯利亚铁路线     

关于挪用公款罪犯罪客体的探讨

职务行为的廉洁性是贪污贿赂罪的同类客体,本身内容并不清楚,不宜作为挪用公款罪的直接客体。挪用公款罪的直接客体应该是国家工作人员的职权行为对特定财产之占有使用权能的不可侵犯性和特定财产之占有使用权能本身。挪用公款罪的本质是"公款私用"。其特点有二:一是滥用职权,二是个人非法获得利益。     

积极推进禁吸戒毒“外转内”工作努力实现社会面上无吸毒人员的目标

处在全国禁毒前沿的云南公安机关在总结 10多年来禁吸戒毒工作经验中由基层首创、并进行试点的基础上 ,走出了一条“外循环”转“内循环” ,实行劳动康复管理模式的禁吸戒毒工作新路子。自 2 0 0 1年全省推行对吸毒人员的收戒方式“外转内”以来 ,实践证明 :工作开展好的地方 ,通过全员收戒吸毒人员 ,实现社会面上无吸毒人员的目标 ,就能够遏制社会面上的毒品需求 ,有利于逐年减少吸毒人员 ,为创建“无毒县市”、“无毒乡镇”、“无毒社区”奠定良好的基础 ,促进整个禁毒斗争的顺利开展。     

对挪用公款罪中"归个人使用"的质疑

我国法学界对挪用公款罪中"归个人使用"的争论由来已久.2002年4月全国人大常委会作出的立法解释虽然较为科学地界定了"公款使用者"的范围,增强了司法实践可操作性,但仍有不足之处,也产生了一些新的问题.无论从司法实践还是立法发展来看,"归个人使用"都不应成为挪用公款的必备要件.按照普遍定罪列举不构罪的特殊技术,尽快对挪用公款罪修订完善,以确保及时有效地打击该类犯罪.     

公安机关推进社会管理创新初探

公安机关作为社会管理的重要职能部门,承担着增强社会活力、维护社会稳定、为经济社会发展创造良好社会环境的重要职责。公安机关推动社会管理创新的目的是实现公正廉洁执法,源动力是理念创新,出路是机制创新,保障是队伍建设。     

简述中国传统道德教育的工具性

中国传统道德思想自从被统治者利用并上升为主流意识形态以后，它的一整套传统道德教育体系便与它一并成为了统治者手中的政治工具，从此逐渐遮蔽了其固有的价值性，具有了鲜明的工具性特征。这种特征主要表现为：经世致用化、政治伦理化和道器分离化。     

农村宅基地产权流转的制度建构

农村宅基地产权流转应和城乡一体化统筹发展相结合。农村宅基地产权流转合理配置问题是产权制度问题。农村宅基地使用权用益物权属性的实质是农村住宅社会保障价值形态的转化。农村宅基地产权可流转制度的构建是农村社会经济现实发展的迫切需要。