论公安机关在构建和谐社会中职能作用的发挥

构建社会主义和谐社会是一项宏大而长远的系统工程。公安机关在这一伟大工程中负有神圣使命与重大历史责任。为此,必须深刻理解和谐社会的内在涵义,找准公安工作的切入点,从根本上解决在影响构建和谐社会过程中出现的诸多问题,充分发挥公安机关的职能作用,为构建和谐社会服务。     

试论我国检察制度的完善

我国检察制度具有专门性、依法性、权威性、规范性、程序性等特点,它的建立与发展具有其历史必然性和现实合理性。由于现行法律的不完善、检察权的依法独立行使缺乏制度保障、检察监督的手段单一以及检察队伍的素质不足等因素的存在,影响和制约了检察权威的树立、职能的发挥。文章认为,应在立法上进一步完善我国检察制度、健全发挥检察职能的内外部机制,在实践中强化检察职能的各项手段、提高检察队伍的综合素质,全方位构建中国特色的检察法律监督制度。     

Applying Functional Analysis to the Case of a Malfunctioning Education System: Addressing System Complexity and Tangled Causes

A 4-year decline culminating in a collapse of school leaver exam results sent shockwaves through the Tanzanian state education system. Students and citizens attribute the collapse to visible deficiencies in classroom teaching, which is the product of a complex, government-administered system of teacher training colleges, schools, schools inspectorate, an examinations council, and a curriculum development institution. A model of the system is constructed and ‘interrogated’ to establish a research framework of key questions and propositions for functional analysis and evaluation of the system.     

Behind closed doors: the effect of pretrial publicity on jury deliberations

Abstract

Effective treatment of aggressive behaviour and accurate release decision making are necessary components of adequate clinical practice in forensic psychiatric units. Unfortunately, methods to identify treatment targets and ameliorate aggressive behaviour have developed at a slower pace than risk assessment technologies. Recent progress on the identification of offence paralleling or functionally equivalent behaviour offers a framework for individually tailored treatment and idiographic release decision making, although empirical scrutiny of this approach is inadequate. This paper describes an examination of the relationship between aggressive behaviour prior to admission with aggression during inpatient psychiatric treatment, and reconviction for violent offending following discharge. Results showed a relationship between pre- and post-admission aggression but no relationship between aggression during inpatient psychiatric treatment with either pre-admission aggressive behaviour or violent recidivism. These findings indicate the importance of state psychological variables, specifically those states affected by symptoms of psychiatric illness, as well as environmental activators and inhibitors of violence that operate within the hospital. These require inclusion in an adequate functional analysis of aggressive behaviour for forensic psychiatric patients.     

(Anti) Queer: Introduction

Thumbnail images depicting the face of a social actor were the most common type of image used in hard-news stories on the home page of the Sydney Morning Herald online (smh online), a high-circulation Australian daily broadsheet, between 2002 and 2006. While not all online newspapers use such images to the same extent as the smh online, close-up thumbnails of faces are commonplace on online newspaper home pages in general. This paper examines the use of these “thumbnail faces” on the smh online home page. Over four years (and across four page-design periods), these images were used more frequently, despite the fact that they function in a very different way to traditional hard-news images. Thumbnail faces cannot “tell stories”, nor “provide evidence”, but they play an important interpersonal role in individual news stories, collectively on the home page, and over time in the discursive relationship between the smh online and its readership.     

涉外继承案件专属管辖考

涉外继承案件是否属于专属管辖范围,从我国《民事诉讼法》的规定看,答案似乎是肯定的,但理论上存有相当大的争议,且实践中,这样的理解也难以变成实际操作。纵观大陆法系德日法等国家立法,将涉外继承案件列入专属管辖范围实属罕见。就国内层面而言,专属管辖可以从法院职能角度和案件特殊性角度进行广义理解,但在国际层面,尤其涉及司法裁决域外承认与执行问题的时候,专属管辖范围的限制就尤为重要;因此,有关不动产物权、法人清算或破产、知识产权诉讼等专属某国法院管辖的观点和做法,日益成为各国普遍认可的事实。从这个角度来看,我们更应审视我国现有规定,从而为涉外继承寻找出合理的法律地位。     

政府系统副职职能转型、规模控制与组织法治

改革政府系统副职现状,是政府机构改革的有机部分,是政府组织、法治化、科学化的基本要求。加快政府组织法治化进程,完善政府组织法的框架和内容,在政府职能转变的基础上继续推进"大部制"改革,提升部门地位和权能,实现政府系统副职职能转型和规模控制,对于推进法治政府建设和实现政府组织体系科学化,具有重大的现实意义。     

论规制知识产权滥用与相关竞争法的制订——从“本土化”的视角

针对发达国家跨国公司的知识产权滥用,我国尚未制订专门的相关竞争法对之予以规制;尽管已有学者在不同程度上对该法的制订进行过理论分析,但从＂本土化＂的角度予以研究的并不多见。本文初步探讨了与此相关的三个重要问题,即该法与我国知识产权国内法的关系、如何审慎地借鉴国外的相关立法、该法的制度重心应如何予以安排。在此基础上提出＂本土化＂的相关竞争法,应在总体上凸显＂最强化＂的制度特色。     

法律本土化:一种法社会学的视角

法律现代化与法律本土化的争论 ,实质上是法律实证主义和法社会学在中国的理论争鸣 ,法律本土化观点为中国法学提供了一种法社会学的研究进路。     

电针治疗严重功能性便秘疗效观察

目的评价电针治疗严重功能性便秘的近期和远期临床疗效。方法将70例严重功能性便秘患者随机分为电针组和假电针组,每组35例。电针组患者接受双侧天枢、腹结、上巨虚深刺,假电针组患者接爱双侧天枢旁、腹结旁、上巨虚旁非穴点浅刺。于基线期、治疗8周末和随访12周末,分别观察两组患者每周完全自主排便(complete spontaneous bowel movements,CSBM)次数、自主排便(spontaneous bowel movements,SBM)次数,以及Bristol粪便性状(Bristol Stool Scale,BSS)评分、排便困难程度评分。结果与基线期比较,治疗期和随访期两组每周CSBM次数均显著增加(P0.01),但电针组每周CSBM次数增加值显著大于假电针组(P0.01)。在随访期,电针组每周CSBM次数≥3的病例数增加率显著大于假电针组(P0.05)。在次要结局指标方面,电针组每周SBM次数和BSS评分增加值以及排便困难程度评分降低值均显著大于假电针组。结论电针治疗严重功能性便秘疗效确切,远期疗效较好。