Curious erasures: the sexual in wartime sexual violence

Wartime sexual violence is especially egregious precisely because it is a sexual form of violence that causes particular harms. Yet, curiously, and in contrast to feminist theory on sexual violence more generally, the sexual has been erased from frames of understanding in dominant accounts of wartime rape. This article places the seeming certainty that “wartime rape is not about sex (it’s about power/violence)” under critical scrutiny and poses questions about the stakes of the erasure of the sexual in explanations of conflict-related sexual violence. It argues that the particular urgency that accompanies this erasure reflects the workings of familiar distinctions between war and peace, as well as efforts to clearly recognize violence and separate it from sex. Erasing the sexual from accounts of wartime rape thus ultimately reinscribes the normal and the exceptional as separate, and reproduces a reductive notion of heterosexual masculine sex (in peacetime) that is ontologically different from the violence of war.     

Sodomy’s Penumbra

This article advocates a sodomitical approach to sodomy. Its approach is framed alongside and against three historical glosses on sodomy law: first, that sodomy law instantiates homophobia; second, that sodomy law targets sexual violence against boys; third, that sodomy law reaches assaultive sex against women that did not register as assaultive enough to qualify as “rape” by sexist juries. The first story of sodomy law is mostly wrong. The other two glosses pivot on protection: protection of boys or protection of girls and women. These accounts, tethered to identitarianism, underplay sodomy law’s multiplicity, as a source and symptom of our conflicted understandings of when sex is sex and when sexual violence is rape.

The first part of the article explains my choice of sodomitical sites. The second part complicates the story of sodomy as phobic. The third part complements the historiography of sodomy as protective against boys. The fourth part argues that the gloss on sodomy law as a corrective to disbelieved women is appealing but untrue. The final part makes the case that fellatio matters. The prevalence of forcible oral sex in sodomy cases intimates a cultural pluripotence of oral sex, as well as shifting definitions—in law and life—of sex and rape. This last story of sodomy law remains undetected under an identitarian radar.     

Sending money home in times of crime: the case of Mexico

We explore at the municipality level how the climate of criminal violence has affected the flow of remittances to Mexico. Using a panel of municipalities in the years 2006 and 2010, we find that drug-related crimes and overall rates of homicides have reduced the percentage of families that receive remittances. This result is robust to controlling for net migration, political variables, and traditional socioeconomic explanations of remittance sending. It is also robust to potential threats to validity. We interpret this result as suggestive of self-interested concerns when sending money home amidst a climate of rampant violence. Nonetheless, mixed motivations to remit are evident in our analysis.     

协同理论下高空抛物法律治理模式之再完善

高空抛物之法律治理已实现分散治理向协同治理的转型。前者以“侵权+补偿”之双层责任体系保障受害人的民事权利,后者则以《民法典》上公安机关调查职责等关联性条款的设置为肇端。但受到公私法理念对立、民事单行法思维和实用主义调整思路等因素影响,协同治理模式拘泥于各部门法的个别优化,缺乏对协同观念与方案的理论关照,从而导致不同部门法之间各自为政且相互掣肘。鉴此,宜从整体和部分两个方面展开反思与完善,以协同共治理念为指引,妥善确定各部门法治理的逻辑关系及其效力范围。具体而言,一要强调可能加害人补偿责任的限制适用;二要推动高空抛物防治义务向公法属性回归,构建行政机关主导的多层次救助体系;三需对“高空抛物罪”构成要件的解释保持谦抑。     

高校学生越轨行为成因及对策思考

高校学生个体或群体在其主观意识的支配下,偏离社会主导行为规范的行为称之为高校学生越轨行为.高校学生的越轨行为严重影响着高校学生的成长和社会的稳定发展.为此,家庭需给予高校学生正确引导和适度关注,学校需加强和改进对高校学生的思想政治教育和管理工作,社会需创造适合高校学生健康成长的良好社会环境.     

当前犯罪构成理论多元化存在之必然

针对目前我国理论界对犯罪构成众说纷纭、莫衷一是的现状,从我国的基本国情出发,在理论本身、理论研究者、社会变革及司法实践等层面上,提出当前中国多元化犯罪构成理论存在的必然性。     

SPECIAL ISSUE： ANTI-CORRUPTION STRATEGIES IN TRANSITIONAL CHINA --China＇s System of Anti-corruption Charges： The Tightening-up Process and Future Development

伴随着中国的改革开放,中国反腐败的罪名体系走过了一条逐步精致化、细腻化的发展历程,完成了多次细化和全面转型,形成了严密的反腐败刑事法网和二元制罪名体系。二元制的反腐败罪名体系在过去30年间贡献卓著,它不仅是法律逻辑自然演进的结果,背后也承载着复杂的社会变革因素,更体现了立法者试图在制度层面遏制腐败的主观期待。伴随着中国改革开放力度和范围的加大,中国反腐败罪名体系的未来走向,必然是坚决废弃二元制罪名体系和彻底恢复一元制罪名体系。     

向制假者购买居民身份证行为的法理分析

购买伪造的身份证的行为不构成犯罪是贯彻罪刑法定原则的需要;根据对向犯理论：向制假者提供身份证信息并要求购买该伪造的身份证的行为不能认定为伪造居民身份证罪的教唆犯或者帮助犯。向制假者购买身份者的行为不是犯罪,而是一般违法行为,但利用伪造的居民身份证从事其他活动触犯刑法的,则应另行处理。     

浅议单位过失犯罪

指出由于单位犯罪主体方面的特殊性,它的主观方面是否存在过失引来争议。本文分析和评价了学界关于单位过失犯罪的各种学说,研究了单位犯罪的核心和本质,最终肯定了单位过失犯罪存在的合理性和必要性。     

敲诈勒索罪定性研究

权利是否受到侵害,具有极高的定性价值。权利受侵害人获得的救济权包括程序性权利和实体性权利两个层面,不能以实体性权利否定程序性权利。构成敲诈勒索罪所使用的“威胁”、“要挟”方法,应当予以合法性审查并符合明确的法律标准,同时,防止把民事“胁迫”升格为刑事犯罪的敲诈勒索。“非法占有为目的”作为主观要件有其规定的识别价值,具有排斥“凭空地”索要他人财物之外的索要财物行为入罪的规范意义。一个以获取财产为目的的行为,其性质应当由是否具有合法性根据来决定而不是由数额是否合理来决定,数额只能影响其合理性。