Street Violence against Women in India: Mapping Prevention Strategies

Street violence against women (SVAW) in India is highly under researched. This article aims to understand the contextual factors responsible for the occurrence of SVAW in five cities of North‐east India: Agartala, Kohima, Imphal, Shillong, and Guwahati. The aftermath of an horrific gang rape and the subsequent death of a 23‐year‐old woman in a moving bus in New Delhi in December 2012 served as a wake‐up call for the Government of India (GOI), augmenting the need to understand the issues of SVAW. On December 23, 2012, the GOI constituted the Justice Verma Committee (JVC) who prepared a 630‐page report, submitted to the Prime Minister of India, which identified “failure of governance” as the central cause of SVAW. Based on some of the recommendations of the JVC report, the GOI passed the Criminal Law Amendment Bill, 2013. Drawing upon semi‐structured interviews from qualitative research in combination with a questionnaire survey, this research aims to understand the factors that allow SVAW to persist. Using recommendations of the JVC report and the Justice Usha Mehra Commission, the Criminal Law Amendment Act, 2013 , as well as research findings, this article is an attempt to inform prevention strategies aimed at escalating the safety of women in public spaces of the study region.     

The Illusions and Juxtapositions of Commercial Sexual Exploitation among Youth: Identifying Effective Street-Outreach Strategies

To explore sexually exploited youths' perspectives of how street outreach workers can effectively provide outreach and connections to services, we conducted qualitative interviews with 13 female participants, ages 14 to 22, in a Midwest U.S. city. Participants reported multiple types of exploitation, most first exploited by age 13, plus substance use and recurrent homelessness. Nearly all had a pimp, and all used the internet as a venue for sexual exploitation. Participants wanted outreach workers to use “soft words” to refer to exploitation. They expressed contradictory images of their “boyfriend” pimps and their exploitation. They wanted outreach workers to “provide resources,” “be nonjudgmental,” “listen,” and “care.” Street outreach can be one way to support sexually exploited youth but should occur in multiple settings.     

Sexual behavior of clients with street prostitutes in Camden,NJ

This paper describes the sexual behaviors of 101 male clients with female street prostitutes. An earlier study (Freund, Leonard, & Lee, 1989) was limited to sexual behaviors of street prostitutes themselves. Interviews were given by 62% of the clients approached. The clients were mature men (mean = 39.8 years), long‐term residents of Camden, NJ (mean = 19.2 years), and currently or previously married (78/101). Racial composition was similar to the general population of the area, 65% white, 33% black, 2% Asian. Clients reported a mean of 5.3 years of using prostitution, with 81% having been clients of Camden prostitutes for more than a year. Most were regular (or repeat) clients; 93% monthly or more frequently, and 63% weekly or more frequently. About one‐half (55%) reported sex with the same prostitute or same small group of prostitutes. The primary meeting place was the street (78/101) and 43% of the sexual encounters took place in the clients' cars. Ejaculation into the vagina was most frequently reported (43/101), followed by ejaculation into the mouth (39/101) Reports of condom use were substantial; 72% for vaginal and 33% for oral intercourse (mean = 58% of encounters).     

构建城管执法的协商治理模式

改革开放以来,伴随着城市化进程的快速发展,加强和创新城市管理变得越来越重要。城市管理中城管人员与摊贩之间的博弈,主要表现为散乱经营、消极配合、全面对峙、默契共生和和谐相处五个场景,以及形式化、粗暴化、自由化和人性化四种执法模式。在城管执法中引入市民群体,构建城管人员、流动摊贩和市民三方共同参与的协商治理模式,以期更好地解决城管执法困境。     

From Community Organization to Direct Services: The Street Trans Action Revolutionaries to Sylvia Rivera Law Project

ABSTRACT

The literature on transgender social services is limited. Taking a case study approach, this article examines the needs of chronically underserved lesbian, gay, bisexual, transgender, and queer (LGBTQ) populations, particularly homeless transgender street youth, and efforts of community-based organizations to address them. To consider their needs, this article considers the legacy of transgender activist Sylvia Rivera along with four organizations that grew out of her work: the Street Trans Action Revolutionaries, Sylvia's Place, Sylvia Rivera Law Project, and New Alternatives for LGBT Youth. These organizations show the promise for using multiple methods, from direct action to direct services, while connecting the lessons of social movements with social services. Future recommendations for improving research and services are highlighted.     

Streetwise sales and the social order of city streets

This paper analyses how a Big Issue vendor approached passers-by and how they responded, how recognizable courses of social and economic activity were interactionally produced from initiation through to some conclusion. The paper recovers how the vendor's work was contextually embedded in the urban landscape, how it was constrained by, and actively shaped, the social order of the street. Drawing on video-audio recordings the paper contributes to a growing body of ethnographic and ethnomethodological research which has emphasized the embodied, contingent and interactional character of economic activity. By examining such materials, the paper is well positioned to describe how the vendor found his market on the street, social interventions that propelled passers-by into buying behaviour. The paper sheds light on now familiar encounters which occur millions of times each week in the UK and beyond.     

C2C 环境中顾客重复购买行为的实证与建模

通过分析C2C 商家的交易记录, 发现单个商家的顾客重复购买次数呈幂律分布, 这与重复购买理论以往得到的购买次数为负二项分布的结论不同. 基于C2C 交易的实际情况, 建立了具有购买强化效应的购买概率模型, 模型很好的解释了顾客重复购买率呈幂律分布的现象.实证和模型表明, C2C 环境中, 顾客购买次数的分布具有很长的尾部, 大量顾客有低的购买次数, 而少数顾客有很高的重复购买次数;模型还揭示了巨大的潜在顾客数量和顾客多次购买的强化效应是造成重复购买分布呈幂律形式的重要原因.     

基于消费者购物价值的商场环境建设策略研究

商场环境建设是零售业研究领域的一项重要课题,改善商场环境能够有助于提升营销业绩。研究发现,消费者享乐主义或功利主义购物价值对商场营销业绩产生重要影响。由此,基于这两种不同的消费者购物价值,分别提出商场环境建设的对策。     

网购存在的问题及其对策

通过对当前网购状况的分析,认为网购中卖家的诚信问题、网络支付存在安全隐患、售后服务和物流服务相对滞后是常见的3个问题;而网购的运营模式不够完善、网络安全问题突出和物流服务相对滞后是导致问题的主要原因,并指出买家培养良好的网购习惯、政府管理部门和网站联合加强网购交易的安保措施、制定专门的相关法律为网购提供法律保障是解决这些问题的有效措施。     

湍流模型和施密特数对街谷内污染扩散模拟的影响

选取不同的湍动施密特数,分别采用标准κ-ε模型和realizable κ-ε模型对孤立街道峡谷内的气流运动和污染物扩散进行了数值模拟.计算得到的气流速度场和污染物浓度分布表明,标准κ-ε模型和realizable κ-ε模型预测出极为相似的气流旋涡结构,即在峡谷内生成一个中心大致位于峡谷中央的顺时针大旋涡,并在此大旋涡的作用下污染物往峡谷的背风侧积聚.通过对比分析峡谷迎风面和背风面上的无量纲污染物浓度计算结果与风洞试验数据表明,湍动施密特数的改变并不影响计算空气流场,但改变污染物扩散方程中的湍动扩散率,增大湍动施密特数将减弱污染物的湍动扩散作用,使得峡谷顶部污染物外溢减少,从而导致峡谷内的污染物浓度计算值增大;只要给定合适的计算参数,标准κ-ε模型和realizable κ-ε模型均能预测出峡谷内的污染物扩散分布,标准κ-ε模型合适的湍动施密特数为0.4～0.6,而realizable κ-ε模型则为0.3～0.5;当取湍动施密特数为0.7(Fluent软件系统中的默认值)时,标准κ-ε模型的计算精度高于realizable κ-ε模型的计算精度.