‘Pains of imprisonment’: narratives of the women partners and children of the incarcerated

This paper focuses on an important line of inquiry in contemporary criminal justice social work research: the collateral consequences of incarceration in the Chinese context. It gives an insight into the impact of incarceration on families from an insider's perspective. An analysis of interviews with 10 partners and 10 children yielded three major themes concerning the impact of imprisonment: the problems associated with the imprisonment of a family member, the coping strategies used and views on the importance of maintaining family ties. It is hoped that this study will give practical guidance regarding what should be done, and how, to reduce the negative consequences brought about by the absence (temporary or permanent) of the imprisoned on their families, including both their partners and vulnerable children.     

The ratification of ILO Conventions and the provision of unemployment benefits: An empirical analysis

This article tests the relationship between the ratification of International Labour Organization (ILO) Conventions and the provision of unemployment benefits. Statistical tests focus on two related issues: why countries ratify ILO Conventions on unemployment benefits, and whether ratification influences government spending on unemployment benefits. The main findings are that democracy, region, income, and globalization are the main factors influencing why countries ratify ILO Conventions on unemployment benefits. In turn, the ratification of ILO Conventions is systematically associated with higher spending if countries have ratified more than two Conventions.     

中国环境公益诉讼之兴起与走势——基于环境正义与环境诉讼价值进路的分析

在我国,环境污染及其造成的损害日益严重,客观上对损害救济的相关法律提出了变革与发展的要求。然而,传统环境侵权诉讼在原告资格、诉讼事由和诉讼主体——环保团体的诉讼资格方面面临诸多困境。环境公益诉讼在原告的起诉资格、诉讼标的、诉讼事由以及诉讼性质等方面,弥补了传统环境侵权诉讼的缺陷,在实现环境正义、保护环境公益、救济环境损害方面起到了不可替代的作用。     

孙悟空的名号与《西游记》的主旨

《西游记》中,孙悟空的名号有一个美猴王-孙悟空-弼马温-齐天大圣-孙行者-斗战胜佛的变化,亦可称之为心与魔之间相交的变化。二者相交反映着孙悟空的心路历程,即求心-束心-放心-收心-正心的过程,而这也正是小说的主旨。且心魔相交之说在《西游记》主旨探求过程中始终是一条重要支脉而延绵不断,这与晚明大行其道的心学思潮有着紧密关联。     

“江郎才尽”新解

“颠覆阅读”的“难以为继”,在文学史上的印证就是“江郎才尽”。对“江郎才尽”,文学史上有多种解释,此处认为,江淹是以“颠覆阅读”的手段来使自己的诗歌达到一种独特性,故意用一种怪诞或隐晦的文风,用一种奇哨怪仄的意境或修辞手段,来实现自己诗歌的新鲜感甚或冲击力,以震撼人们视觉、听觉,但这种文风难以为继,文学史告诉我们,“颠覆阅读”也是需要创新的。     

A two phases queueing system with Bernoulli vacation schedule under multiple vacation policy

This paper deals with a single server Poisson arrival queue with two phases of heterogeneous service along with a Bernoulli schedule vacation model, where after two successive phases service the server either goes for a vacation with probability p (0≤p≤1) or may continue to serve the next unit, if any, with probability q(=1−p). Further the concept of multiple vacation policy is also introduced here. We obtained the queue size distributions at a departure epoch and at a random epoch, Laplace Stieltjes Transform of the waiting time distribution and busy period distribution along with some mean performance measures. Finally we discuss some statistical inference related issues.     

个人教育收益率的估计与比较: 一个半参数方法

 本文运用一种变系数部分线性模型扩展了传统的明瑟人力资本收入函数,并提出了对明瑟函数中“平行性”假设的一种检验方法,以分析个人教育收益率如何受到工龄等因素的影响。通过对1991、2000以及2004等年度国家统计局城镇居民收入调查数据的分析,揭示出近二十年来我国城镇居民中不同工龄的人们的教育收益率存在明显区别,其中人教育收益率最高的始终是在1980年代中后期参加工作的群体。对导致我国教育收益率这种特殊现象的原因作了分析。