美国对网络色情的法律规制及借鉴

网络色情泛滥,对青少年的不良影响巨大.我国目前尚缺乏规制网络色情的完备法制.本文通过对美国规制网络色情的法律制度和技术措施的介绍和评价,提出我国可借鉴的方面制定完善相应的法律制度,并据此实施对传播网络色情的惩罚机制;重视发挥家庭与学校的教育作用;采用高科技手段以及加强国际联合与协作.     

基于青少年网络犯罪的思考

网络的出现和发展,使人们享受着高科技带来的各种方便和愉悦,极大地改变了人们的生活方式。网络对青少年的生活也带来了很大的影响。譬如黑客、计算机病毒、网络色情和网络恐怖主义,而缺乏辨别能力的青少年在频繁的上网冲浪过程中不可避免地会接触到这些"网上垃圾"。青少年天性中的模仿性和好奇心,令人担忧频繁的接触,不可避免地会导致青少年学习某些犯罪技术并转而用于实践。     

分级制能否遏制网络色情泛滥?

目前,互联网对中小学生的影响正在迅速增强,网络色情对青少年的危害正在迅速放大。在苏州,一位中学生因沉迷于网络色情,从优秀走向堕落,她的母亲深感切肤之痛,她上书市委书记,呼喊道:“我的儿子只有16岁呀!如果没有好的社会环境,他该怎样走完他的人生啊!”中小学生因为正处于青     

分级制能否遏制网络色情泛滥?

目前,互联网对中小学生的影响正在迅速增强,网络色情对青少年的危害正在迅速放大.在苏州,一位中学生因沉迷于网络色情,从优秀走向堕落,她的母亲深感切肤之痛,她上书市委书记,呼喊道:"我的儿子只有16岁呀!如果没有好的社会环境,他该怎样走完他的人生啊!"中小学生因为正处于青春发育期,控制能力较差,一旦迷上色情网站,很容易堕落甚至走上犯罪道路.     

全球化时代的“软权力”

在当今美国,在外全职工作的家长比以往增多。因此,每天下午放学后,直到晚饭时候,甚至更晚些,近1/3的青少年需独自在家。这段下午放学后独自在家的时光如同一个危机四伏的雷区,暗藏着性、毒品、烈酒、网络色情、暴力游戏、极端冒险活动、孤独等等,被称作青少年的“危险时刻”。对青少年自我管理行为的研究结果令人担忧:青少年无人监管的时间越长,就越可能发生性     

中国网络色情现状调查

网络色情是指在网上以性行为或者人体裸露为主要内容的信息,目的在于挑逗浏览者的性欲或满足人的性猎奇心理,不具备或基本不具备教育、医学和艺术等价值。对于网络色情,现有评价贬大于褒,然而不可否认的是,网络色情在休闲娱乐、满足大众欲望方面有其独特的功效。网络色情发展史网络普及在国内是近几年的事,相应算起来,网络色情的发展也不过五六年光景。不过就发展经历而言,它已经是一波三折,度过了好几个阶段,大致可划分如下:1999年之前是“启蒙”期;1999至2001年是“摸索”期;2002年到现在属于飞速发展和初步成熟期。1995年,国内开始出现网…     

远离网络色情侵害

近几年来,网络色情以及经由网络散布的暴力文化已经成为世界各国面对的一大公害。美国就将网络色情危害程度排在毒品之上,相关立法及打击力度前所未有。从2002年下半年开始,中国的网络色情呈愈演愈烈之势。在这一拨色情狂潮中,连众多的门户网站也纷纷染指,并最终成为困扰互联网     

中国网络色情现状调查

网络色情是指在网上以性行为或者人体裸露为主要内容的信息,目的在于挑逗浏览者的性欲或满足人的性猎奇心理,不具备或基本不具备教育、医学和艺术等价值.对于网络色情,现有评价贬大于褒,然而不可否认的是,网络色情在休闲娱乐、满足大众欲望方面有其独特的功效.     

网络淫秽表演背后的三大利益链条

面对日益泛滥的网络色情,警方分析,色情网站犹如一个场,在这里既有“骗子”,也有“小偷”,还有只管卖刀不管刀是不是用来杀人的所谓“第三方”。于是,一个案件牵扯出若干个网络诈骗、网络盗窃、网络色情、输入计算机病毒等集群性案件。在其背后,至少存在三大利益链条。     

网络色情成瘾,谁之罪?

电脑已经成为21世纪的“性玩具”,它会像地雷那样随时爆炸,破坏人们的私人生活甚至是工作。由于互联网的易介入性和直观性,使得色情的内容随处可见。一些具有猎奇心理的人终日在这些网站上留连忘返,以满足那些日常生活中无法满足的性需要。有专家指出,每周花费11个小时以上用来漫游色情网站的人就有网络色情成瘾的嫌疑。网络色情成瘾的病症表现为在线性活动开始干扰你的工作、学习、正常娱乐以及你与他人的关系。美国心理学家指出,目前美国网络色情成瘾的人数正在增加,电脑已经成为21世纪的“性玩具”,它会像地雷那样随时爆炸,破坏人们的私…     

Back and Forth and Beyond

The Journal invited Tom Andersen, author of major pioneering work on the reflecting team, and his colleagues, to offer comment on The Reflecting Team Process in Training. We thought such a north-south dialogue was in keeping with the spirit of reflecting teams, and the team members in Melbourne and Tromsø agree — Editor.     

Time and aging--mechanisms and meanings

A recent European Molecular Biology Laboratory Conference on Science and Society entitled "Time & Aging--Mechanisms & Meanings" fascinated scientists from different research areas as well as nonscientists. Topics discussed included not only the biological aging process but also the psychological effects of aging and social influences that affect this process.     

Arts and Crafts and Reconstruction

Abstract

This paper examines the role of arts and crafts in reconstructing communities after times of upheaval, their use in creating employment opportunities, and their impact on the nature of South African art history. It looks at craft initiatives during and after the Johannesburg World Summit on Sustainable Development in 2002, and draws parallels with early twentieth-century initiatives, particularly those of Florence Phillips, who founded the Johannesburg Art Gallery in 1910, Emily Hobhouse, who established Boer home industries, and the South African National Union, which promoted the manufacture and use of local products.     

Sexual Compulsivity and Sexual Behaviors Among Gay and Bisexual Men and Lesbian and Bisexual Women

Within the existing body of research, the information pertaining to sexual compulsivity (SC) among women, both homo- and heterosexual, remains rather limited in comparison to men. The aim of this study was to assess the prevalence of SC in a community sample of gay and bisexual men and lesbian and bisexual women and to identify differences in sexual practices based on classification as sexually compulsive within gender. Supporting previous research, the findings indicated that gay and bisexual men were significantly higher in SC when compared to lesbian and bisexual women. Similarly, sexually compulsive gay and bisexual men were more likely to report drug use with sex than their non-sexually compulsive peers, suggesting that “party n' play” may play a larger role for men with SC. In addition, the findings demonstrated empirical support for the proposition that lesbian and bisexual women with symptoms of SC were more likely to engage in specialized sexual behaviors in comparison to their non-sexually compulsive peers. These data suggest that SC manifests differently in gay, lesbian, and bisexual men and women.     

Evening and night work schedules and children's social and emotional well-being

ABSTRACT

An emerging body of evidence shows that parents’ non-standard work schedules have a detrimental effect on children's well-being. However, only a limited number of studies have investigated mediating factors that underpin this association. Likewise, only a few studies have examined the impact of fathers’ non-standard work schedules on children's well-being. Based on data from the Families in Germany Study (FiD), this study aimed to address these research gaps. The sample consists of parents and their children at ages 7–8 and 9–10 (n?=?838 child observations in dual-earner families). The data were collected in the years 2010–2013. Non-standard work hours were defined as working in evenings and or at night (every day, several times a week, or changing as shifts). Children's social and emotional well-being was measured with the Strengths and Difficulties Questionnaire (SDQ). The findings show that both mothers’ and fathers’ evening and night work schedules are linked to an increase in children's externalizing and internalizing behavior and that this association is partially mediated by mothers’ and fathers’ harsh and strict parenting, with a stronger mediation effect for fathers parenting.     

History and the here and now

This paper explores the lesser-known histories and present-day realities of small towns and non-metropolitan areas in the internal provinces of South Africa. It is different inasmuch as it focuses on transformations that have taken place at the local level, and where possible, generalises from these, rather than following the normal route taken by social scientists – at least from 1994, which has been to examine them from the top down. One feature of such changes has been the growth of gated communicates across the length and breadth of South Africa, but there are many more. One reason for their anonymity is that their evolution has been gradual and corpuscular, that they have become unconsciously familiar and are left unexamined. Another is our collective preoccupation with the metropolitan areas rather than the smaller localities where such processes are subterranean and confined. This paper presents very briefly some of the results of the researchers of the Local Histories and Present Realities programme over the past five years, in 19 separate centres. It examines the history and present circumstance of chiefdoms of Ga-Mphahlele and reveals the surprise finding that much of recent and contemporary politics revolve around events 200 years old. An analogous situation has arisen in Venda as well as in Mpumalanga and elsewhere, where a combination of new legislation to revive chiefly powers, and land reclamation legislation have lent a new legitimacy to chiefly powers, and inspired hundreds of phantom – and time-consuming – quests. Another massive development which has gone on around us but whose internal dynamics have never been observed is the rise of game hunting and ranching all over the interior of South Africa. This is a monster subject which is likely to have influence on all of our lives into which our group is now in a position to offer insights. A change of equal proportions is the rise of mining all over the interior Bushveld Igneous Complex – Mokopane is a good example of this and the huge social consequences this has brought in its wake. One final theme which embraces all the communities that we have studied is the local histories of transformation – collectively the most important – since 1994. This is almost entirely hidden to a wider world, including the transformed positions of local Indian residents.     

Thinking and Speech and Protocol Analysis

Some form of verbal report—that is, a research participant' s concurrent or retrospective verbal account of thought processes during problem-solving activities—has been used throughout this century as the database from which psychologists have developed theories of human mentation. Newell and Simon (1972) and Ericsson and Simon (1980, 1993) have provided extensive justification for using one such method, protocol analysis, as a tool for investigating cognition from an information-processing (IP) perspective. Their arguments have characterized protocol analysis as a methodology capable of providing evidence of the ways in which people attend to information stored in short-term memory to solve problems, with the evidence providing them with the grounds from which to generate models of human cognitive processes. A different view of protocol analysis is available from the perspective of cultural-historical activity theory (CHAT) based on the work of Vygotsky (1987), Leont'ev (1981), and others, and its concern with the mediation of human development by culturally and historically grounded signs and tools. Because of its emphasis on culturally channeled development, a CHAT perspective views speech, including the speech that serves as evidence for cognition in psychological research, as a tool that potentially enables changes in consciousness. In this article I outline a CHAT perspective that accounts for protocol analysis along three key dimensions: (a) the relation between thinking and speech from a representational standpoint, (b) the social role of speech in research methodology, and (c) the influence of speech on thinking during data collection. The purpose of this discussion is not to refute the IP perspective on protocol analysis but to illustrate how this method can be viewed through a CHAT lens and to identify alternative assumptions that must be made to use it from a CHAT perspective.