A Friendly Visit

U.S. President Barack Obama eases Canadian concerns on his first foreign trip Mao Zedong once described relations between the People's Republic of China and North Korea as being as close as "lips and teeth."     

Back on Track

Chinese Foreign Minister Yang Jiechi's visit to Canadabodes well for improved China-Canada relations     

Judicial Perspectives on Family Drug Treatment Courts

Family Drug Treatment Courts are a specialized calendar or docket that operates within the juvenile dependency court. These courts provide the setting for a collaborative effort by the court and all the participants in the child protection system to come together in a non‐adversarial setting to determine the individual treatment needs of substance‐abusing parents whose children are under the jurisdiction of the dependency court. This article is intended to give judges and others a judicial perspective on FDTCs, and to offer some assistance for those who are operating or who are considering creating one.     

Giving Your Chinese a Local Flavor

<正>Wang,the driver of our school bus,is the most animated speaker I have ever seen—in any language. He is generally so excitable on the drive to and from school that he entertains all the teachers.He maintains a constant flow of     

CLOSE‐UPS AND THE SCALE OF ECOLOGY: LAND USES AND THE GEOGRAPHY OF SOCIAL CONTEXT AND CRIME

Whereas one line of recent neighborhood research has placed an emphasis on zooming into smaller units of analysis such as street blocks, another line of research has suggested that even the meso‐area of neighborhoods is too narrow and that the area surrounding the neighborhood is also important. Thus, there is a need to examine the scale at which the social ecology impacts crime. We use data from seven cities from around the year 2000 to test our research questions using multilevel negative binomial regression models (N = 73,010 blocks and 8,231 block groups). Our results suggest that although many neighborhood factors seem to operate on the microscale of blocks, others seem to have a much broader impact. In addition, we find that racially and ethnically homogenous blocks within heterogeneous block groups have the most crime. Our findings also show the strongest results for a multitude of land‐use measures and that these measures sharpen some of the associations from social characteristics. Thus, we find that accounting for multiple scales simultaneously is important in ecological studies of crime.     

Media Art Comes to Beijing

MEDIA art has a very short history on China＇s mainland,where more traditional forms such as painting and sculpture tend to hold sway.So the arrival of a major survey of global media art practice at Beijing＇s National Art Museum of China（NA- MOC）set the local art world abuzz in the lead up to the Olympic Games. What is media art？Broadly defined, it is art that utilizes contemporary technology and/or reflects upon the role of technology in modem life.Zhang Ga, a China-born,New York-based artist, curator and teacher,has made it his mission to bring the latest media art practices to China over the past few years.