Labor force participation and juvenile delinquency in Taiwan: a time series analysis

This study examines the null hypothesis of Granger no-causality between labor force participation (LFP) and juvenile delinquency in Taiwan. In order to explore this issue more thoroughly, this study adopts the approach proposed by Toda and Yamamoto (1995, Journal of Econometrics, 66(1–2), 225–250). It uses official time-series data provided by the Government of Taiwan. After estimating both a four- and five-variable VAR system, one that substitutes both male and female LFP rates for the aggregate LFP rate, the primary findings of this study reveal the following: The higher the past juvenile crime rate, the lower the future aggregate and female LFP rate will be. In addition, the higher the past male LFP rate, the higher the future juvenile crime rate will be. These findings are quite robust in terms of different lag-length structures.

侵犯著作权行为的刑事法分析

侵犯著作权的行为在我国近年有愈演愈烈的趋势,并且产生了一些新的侵权行为。相形之下,现行刑法中的相关规定在打击侵犯著作权行为的实践中渐显滞后。综观我国侵犯著作权立法的历史沿革和现行刑法中有关侵犯著作权罪的犯罪构成,结合司法实践,要从扩展刑法对著作权的保护范围,取消犯罪主观案件中的非法营利目的,侧重于对被害人的实质补偿,修改罚金刑、增强其可操作性,确立对侵犯著作权犯罪以自诉为主、公诉为辅的犯罪追诉模式和充分保护著作权人的权益以及社会公共利益等方面,进一步完善我国侵犯著作权罪的相关规定。     

明清两代的公罪与私罪制度

中国古代将官吏犯罪区分为公罪和私罪,其目的是为了维护吏治的清明。明清两代的律、例、令、会典等条文中就有对公罪和私罪的相应规定。本文从明清两代的公罪与私罪的基本概念、具体规定、实际运行和影响因素四个方面对这一制度进行深入分析,以期对之有更加全面的认识。     

串通投标罪客观要件探析

针对司法实践中理解、适用串通投标罪存在的歧义,探析该罪的客观要件内容,认为该罪的成立应以存在法律意义上的招投标活动为前提,并对该罪的具体行为方式、罪与非罪的标准以及实践认定中的有关问题进行探讨。     

大学生网络犯罪及对策探析

网络犯罪在大学生中出现,为所有高校思想政治教育工作者敲响了警钟。深入了解大学生网络犯罪的现状,剖析其发生和发展的动因,从而在预防大学生网络犯罪上做文章,是我们每一位高校思想政治教育工作者的责任。     

Risking safety and rights: online sex work,crimes and ‘blended safety repertoires’

It has been well established that those working in the sex industry are at various risks of violence and crime depending on where they sell sex and the environments in which they work. What sociological research has failed to address is how crime and safety have been affected by the dynamic changing nature of sex work given the dominance of the internet and digital technologies, including the development of new markets such as webcamming. This paper reports the most comprehensive findings on the internet‐based sex market in the UK demonstrating types of crimes experienced by internet‐based sex workers and the strategies of risk management that sex workers adopt, building on our article in the British Journal of Sociology in 2007. We present the concept of ‘blended safety repertoires’ to explain how sex workers, particularly independent escorts, are using a range of traditional techniques alongside digitally enabled strategies to keep themselves safe. We contribute a deeper understanding of why sex workers who work indoors rarely report crimes to the police, reflecting the dilemmas experienced. Our findings highlight how legal and policy changes which seek to ban online adult services advertising and sex work related content within online spaces would have direct impact on the safety strategies online sex workers employ and would further undermine their safety. These findings occur in a context where aspects of sex work are quasi‐criminalized through the brothel keeping legislation. We conclude that the legal and policy failure to recognize sex work as a form of employment, contributes to the stigmatization of sex work and prevents individuals working together. Current UK policy disallows a framework for employment laws and health and safety standards to regulate sex work, leaving sex workers in the shadow economy, their safety at risk in a quasi‐legal system. In light of the strong evidence that the internet makes sex work safer, we argue that decriminalisation as a rights based model of regulation is most appropriate.     

Televisual pregnancy beauty

Theorizing the contours of televisual pregnancy beauty, this essay demonstrates how televisual stylistics construct and communicate a political ideology of pregnancy. When the crime dramas Bones and In Plain Sight incorporated their star actors’ pregnancies, they produced different televisually styled portrayals of pregnancy; these medium-specific portrayals play an important role in how pregnancy itself is culturally conceptualized. Although pregnancy beauty, the commodification and sexual objectification of the pregnant and postpartum body, has been analyzed in ways that link it to post-industrial, neoliberal, capitalist, and patriarchal forces, this analysis demonstrates how televisual style sets the scene for this broader discourse. Specifically, I contend that the costuming, blocking and staging, cinematography, and editing determine how the pregnant body appears, and this then communicates a clear ideology to viewing audiences. Through these two case studies, I analyze contrasting televisual styles and argue that while Bones’ style disciplines the pregnant body and In Plain Sight’s style welcomes the pregnant body, both styles enact a televisual pregnancy beauty that commodifies pregnancy.     

The business of writing: literature as a commodity in Claudia Piñeiro’s Betibú

This article presents considerations about the status of literature as a commodity and writers as professionals in the twenty-first century. These considerations are based on an analysis of Argentine writer Claudia Piñeiro’s Betibú (2011), which follows the story of an Argentine crime novel writer who becomes a ghostwriter after her latest novel receives harsh reviews for being considered commercial rather than literary. I argue that the novel in question points out misconceptions about the influence of the book industry on the aesthetic quality of literary writing, highlighting the need for literary criticism to look into everyday relations between readers, authors, and editors.     

‘Refugees welcome?’ The interplay between perceived threats and general concerns on the acceptance of refugees – a factorial survey approach in Germany

The on-going migration of refugees to Europe has fuelled debates about the indigence of refugees and the perceived legitimacy of individual claims for asylum in different receptive countries. With a substantial body of research that has investigated the antecedents of attitudes towards immigrants, evidence on whether those underlying assumptions hold true for refugees as well remains scarce. The paper applies the framework of Intergroup Threat Theory to arrive at competing hypotheses with regard to the acceptance levels of refugees. We use pooled data from two probabilistic samples drawn in the German city of Dresden and apply a confounded factorial survey design to extend previous research on attitudes towards refugees. We find that natives perceive political persecution and war as justified reasons for seeking asylum in Germany, while socio-demographic characteristics of respondents and refugees are of minor importance. Foremost, the individual level of respondent’s fear of crime represents a crucial moderator of the perception of refugees as threatening.     

犯罪观的“交锋”:“刑事和解”与传统犯罪理论

“刑事和解”的出现显示了对犯罪的另一种理解可能。以传统犯罪理论为背景,以比较分析为基本路径,可以全面展现两种犯罪知识与理念的“交锋”。从宏观角度看,两者对犯罪的不同理解根源于观察路径和方法论立场的重大分歧 :传统理论着眼于“远距离观察模式”,形成了“国家中心主义”的犯罪观;而和解理论则立基于“近距离观察模式”,发展出“被害人中心主义”的犯罪观。在这样的逻辑脉络下,两者在社会危害性理论、刑事法律关系及被害人同意等问题域中,产生出辐射性的对峙与紧张。作为某种反思性的维度,“刑事和解”在侵害个人法益的犯罪中具有相当的解释力,为重新估价和改进传统犯罪理论提供了重要契机。