Common Ground: The Development of a Support Group for Survivors of Homicide Loss in a Rural Community

ABSTRACT

Losing a loved one from human-perpetrated violence can lead to a debilitating process of stigma-generated isolation and trauma. Layers of social services are needed to support surviving family members, all secondary victims of homicide. Although urban populations have enriched access to victims-of-crime services, rural-bound populations often do not. This article describes homicide-specific trauma and the development of a community support group for rural-bound persons suffering homicide loss. The support group process offers potential for real help in areas where few trauma-informed options exist. The authors chronicle their journey of group-work practice with underserved persons coping with homicide loss.     

Legislation on the New Types of Cybercrime and Its Application

The new types of cybercrime have different features from traditional “cumulative crimes.” The application of the relevant provisions of the Criminal Law has run into difficulties, and the relevant theoretical explanations of substantive preparatory crime and being an accomplice in crime find it hard to achieve self-consistency. Legislation on the new types of cybercrime is a legitimate response to recent changes in this area. Utilizing the particular techniques of cybercrime and the circumstantial requirement of limiting the amount of criminal harm is the key to satisfying the conditions for offences warranting criminal punishment. The harmfulness of the new types of cybercrime is not great; the law’s circumstantial requirements are flexible, and the criteria for judicial application are unclear, so the law’s provisions are seldom invoked and the sphere of criminal activity is unduly expanded. In order to give full play to the effectiveness of this legislation, we should formulate reasonable judicial rules that accord with the constitution of cybercrimes, narrow down the constituent elements of such crimes in a reasonable way, and categorize and limit the interpretation of circumstantial requirements.     

文化冲突导致犯罪的启示

文化冲突导致犯罪是国际化、城市化、社会阶层变化过程中的一种犯罪现象,解决文化冲突导致犯罪的根本办法就是树立文化多元化的理念,尊重每一种文化,尊重各阶层文化中形成的文明文化,弘扬主流文化与优秀传统文化。针对腐败亚文化,思想上要高度重视,更重要的是从法律上杜绝,制度上约束,机制上限定,舆论上监督,同时要有保证高素质的人才涌现的体制机制。     

Hybridity,ethnicity and nationhood: legacies of interethnic war,wartime rape and the potential for bridging the ethnic divide in post-conflict Bosnia and Herzegovina

ABSTRACT

Relying on the biographical narrative Leila, a girl from Bosnia and the recorded narratives by adolescents born of wartime rape in Bosnia and Herzegovina we illustrate the difficulties and symbolic implications associated with negotiating hybrid identities in post-conflict Bosnia and Herzegovina against the dominant post-conflict discourse based on ‘pure’ ethnicities. We argue that in today’s Bosnia and Herzegovina, hybrid identities are marginalized by official politics and societal structures as a legacy of the war. However, they simultaneously embody the symbolic tools through which ethnic divisions could be overcome, envisioning and recalling a multi-ethnic Bosnia and Herzegovina as a supra-national designation.     

对教师虐童行为刑法规制的思考

立法对于教师虐童行为存在界定模糊与刑法缺位的不足。将未造成轻伤的教师虐童等虐待行为入罪可以选择扩大虐待罪的主体与对象的方式,列举虐待儿童的行为,将虐待儿童构罪设为公诉罪名。对于教师虐童行为的有效防控,刑法的规制存在有限性,必须通过改变观念、增强权利意识、加强师资与民间组织的建设、严格执行相关部门法等综合治理的方式来进行。     

A history of nonviolence? The social construction of Costa Rican peaceful identity

Crime, violence, and insecurity are among the most important social topics in contemporary Costa Rica. These three issues play a central role in the media, politics, and everyday life, and the impression has emerged that security has changed for the worse and that society is now permanently threatened. However, crime statistics do not support this perception. The paper thus asks why violence and crime generate such huge fear in society. The thesis is that the Costa Rican national identity – with Costa Rica constructed as a nonviolent nation – impedes a realistic discussion about the phenomena and their causes, and simultaneously provides a platform for sensationalism and the social construction of fear.     

论配偶暴力中受虐妇女杀夫案的量刑

因不堪忍受配偶暴力而杀害施暴人是大部分女性犯罪的原因。根据调查,对受虐杀夫妇女基本上适用故意杀人罪的第一法定刑幅度,学者普遍认为量刑过重并提出各种解决建议。在促进立法的同时,我们更应重视科学量刑,依据《人民法院量刑指导意见（试行）》和宽严相济的刑事政策,充分考虑被害人过错、犯罪动机和被害人家属谅解等酌定量刑情节,对受虐杀夫妇女从宽量刑。     

浙江舟山群岛新区背景下流动人口犯罪管控问题探析——以美国破窗理论为视角

浙江舟山群岛新区设立以来,随着新区建设对人力资源需求的增长,各种层次的外来人口进入数量逐年递增,这势必给经济改革发展地区的社会稳定和流动人口犯罪管控带来新的考验。本文以美国破窗理论为视角,分析探讨如何借鉴该理论改增强新区流动人口管控模式,降低流动人口的违法犯罪率,从而为舟山群岛新区发展创造良好的社会软环境。也希望冀此抛砖引玉,为今后长三角其它沿海地区海洋经济改革发展过程中可能面临的此类问题,提供一个可咨借鉴的参考。     

行政犯法律性质的定位、缺陷及完善

行政犯与传统自然犯最主要的区别在于其涉及行政规制与刑法规制的交叉地带。从行政犯的构成要件与法律责任上讲,其研究的内容为行政犯罪与刑事责任,其规制的方式应当定位于刑事规制。目前,我国行政犯理论研究尚存较大的缺陷,刑法中主要以空白罪状的形式规定行政犯,对其认定需要结合相关行政法法规。这样的情况导致司法实践中认定行政犯时会出现违反罪刑法定原则的情况,而解决这样的缺陷的一个有效的手段就是将模糊的法律规定明确化。这种措施既有利于对行政犯的司法适用,也促进良好的行政规则与刑法规制之间的衔接。     

掩饰、隐瞒犯罪所得、犯罪所得收益罪的行为对象

掩饰、隐瞒犯罪所得、犯罪所得收益罪的行为对象是"犯罪所得"与"犯罪所得收益"。"犯罪所得"与"犯罪所得收益"中的"犯罪"是刑事实体法意义上的犯罪,不限于财产犯罪。"犯罪所得"是他人既遂犯罪行为之所得,是犯罪行为直接之所得,转化物、交易物、具有有形载体的财产性利益以及部分违禁品都可以成为犯罪所得。"犯罪所得收益"是犯罪所得所产生的孳息,包括犯罪所得产生的天然孳息与法定孳息两类。