Realigning criminal policy. Offender and victim in the Swedish party system over time

The article conducts a case study of criminal policy in the Swedish party system between 1960 and the present. Like other countries, Sweden has witnessed its criminal policy take a ‘punitive turn’ during this time. We hypothesize that this turn is explained by the fact that the discourse on crime has become increasingly victim-centred. Our study of the changes in the parties’ policies suggests that the parties play a central role in this explanation. In order to understand the punitive turn, however, the increasingly victim-centred discourse must in turn be explained. We argue that it is the individualization of society which provides the key here.     

再论犯罪既遂标准——以对犯罪结果的重新解读为切入点

通说认为,“犯罪构成要件齐备说”作为犯罪既遂标准具有其优越性：它以刑法分则既遂模式论为依托,因而包容各种不同类型犯罪的既遂情形。但通说却存在不能克服的矛盾：它无力解决危险犯既遂后行为人主动消除危险状态行为的问题;各种具体犯罪标准的争论也表明通说并未解决犯罪既遂标准问题;通说还面临其他质疑,这些都使通说陷入尴尬。将犯罪结果理解为犯罪行为对刑法所保护的人或物的存在状态的改变,并将“犯罪结果发生说”作为犯罪既遂标准具有理论和实践上的可行性。“犯罪目的实现说”目前不宜作为我国犯罪既遂标准。     

Why we should think some more. A response to ‘When you’re boxing you don’t think so much’: pugilism,transitional masculinities and criminal desistance among young Danish gang members

This paper forms part of a discussion with scholars working in the field of criminology and youth crime, in particular those who are interested in sport, gender, and desistance from violence. Furthermore, this paper challenges previous work into the sport of boxing and desistance from violence, and therefore argues for a more nuanced approach, by incorporating more feminist epistemologies, and inclusive masculinities into this complex phenomenon. Drawing upon contemporary research, this paper discusses prior literature on sport and desistance from violence, and further develops the concept of sport as a tool for reduction in violent youth crime.     

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。     

论《大伟人江奈生·魏尔德传》的反讽叙事艺术

本文试从《大伟人江奈生·魏尔德传》的反语讽刺来分析小说的人物塑造,以及在深化犯罪主题方面所起的积极作用。     

我国网络犯罪立法问题探究

网络作为一种新兴事物,为现代人与人之间的沟通、交流提供了传输的平台,随着计算机网络技术的逐步普及,网络犯罪的种类和数量也在逐年增加,并且在网络上实施的犯罪行为,已经严重危害了社会环境。然而我国刑法学界对计算机犯罪的研究起步较晚,虽然在新刑法中也规定了计算机犯罪的条款,但是由于刑法规范具有一定的滞后性,使得完善网络犯罪立法成为当下刑事立法的紧迫任务。     

“组织涉黑”性质的界定及其引申

对涉黑犯罪采取“打早”、“打小”的政策须以打准为基础。涉黑犯罪分为两个类型：与组织形式相关的犯罪和基于组织利益由成员实施的具体犯罪。一般情形下由成员实施的直接危害社会的行为应被首先评判,此后甄别成员问非法利用关系证明非法利益共同体的存在,最后对应刑法条款决定是否适用组织、领导、参加黑社会性质组织罪罪名。如果存在国家机关工作人员包庇、纵容犯罪人的,亦据此决定适用包庇纵容黑社会性质组织罪或适用其他罪名。