Self‐Esteem,the Fear of Crime,and the Decision to Protect Oneself From Victimization

This research extends prior work that examines self‐esteem as an outcome of protective behaviors against crime victimization by focusing instead on the moderating influence of self‐esteem on the relationship between the fear of crime and the decision to protect oneself from victimization. The fear of crime is conceptualized as two separate components (fear of victimization and perceived risk) in accordance with prior work. Self‐esteem is conceptualized as three separate components (worth, efficacy, and authenticity), and measured with a recently designed instrument for capturing each aspect of self‐esteem separately. Data are collected through surveys of a population at high risk for victimization (undergraduate college students). Logistic regression analyses demonstrate that self‐esteem does play a role for deciding whether to engage in protective behaviors, and that the specific components of self‐esteem moderate defensive behavioral outcomes differently. Specifically, the self‐worth, self‐efficacy, and authenticity components of self‐esteem influence the decision to carry protection, but not the decision to take a self‐defense class. Implications for both the fear of crime and self‐esteem literatures are addressed.     

Mentoring Siblings of Gang Members: A Template for Reaching Families of Gang Members?

Mentoring has become a popular model of intervention to reduce the risk of offending, and has been proposed as an effective tool to tackle the risk of gang membership. This paper reviews the existing literature on mentoring and reports on a qualitative evaluation of a mentoring programme targeted at young people ‘at risk’ of gang membership in an English city. The study highlights important issues around these interventions. Although we found it a useful way to engage otherwise hard‐to‐reach families, important limitations remain: their potential labelling impact and their limited impact in isolation from other more ambitious measures.     

Macroeconomic asymmetry in the Eurozone before and after the Global Financial Crisis: An appraisal of the role of the ECB

The launch of the euro in 1999 was assumed to enhance macroeconomic convergence among EMU economies. We test this hypothesis from a comparative perspective, by calculating different indices to measure the degree of macroeconomic dispersion within the Eurozone, the UK and the USA (1999–2019). We use common factor models to produce a single index for each monetary area out of different measures of dispersion. These indices can be used to inform on the degree of optimality of a monetary area. Our results show that macroeconomic dispersion in the Eurozone increased notably even before 2007 and it took significantly longer to return to pre-crisis levels, as compared to the UK and the USA. The paper shows the critical role played by the ECB’s asset purchases programmes in reducing macroeconomic divergences among EMU member states since 2015.     

Fiscal harmonization in view of the Euro adoption: Economic implications for Poland

In this paper, we investigate the ex ante effects of fiscal policy harmonization that might be necessary for the adoption of the common currency on economic growth in Poland using a neoclassical dynamic two-sector general equilibrium model. We study two fiscal policy scenarios. In the first one, we adjust all taxes to German and EU-27 levels, respectively, while in the second one, we change only consumption taxes to German and EU-27 levels. We find that in the first scenario, the current Polish taxes yield the highest rate of growth due to lower capital taxation. However, in the second scenario, German and EU-27 taxes yield the highest rate of growth due to the lower consumption tax on capital-intensive good. From a policy perspective, our results suggest that fiscal policy with lower taxes on capital and capital-intensive goods can generate a higher rate of growth in the long-run. In the case of fiscal harmonization, our findings propose adopting only German or EU-27 consumption tax structure into the Polish tax system.     

论我国刑法中的主客观辩证统一关系

对立统一规律是唯物辩证法的基本规律 ,它在我国刑法中表现为主观与客观相统一的原理 ,具体体现在犯罪构成理论、共同犯罪理论和数罪并罚理论中     

追求绝对自由:犯罪发生和发展的重要根源

自由有绝对性的一面,但自由的绝对性和绝对自由不是一回事。现实存在的自由都是相对的。追求绝对自由是造成犯罪发生和发展的一个重要根源,因为它将导致否认平等、蔑视秩序、拒绝规范,实际是行为上的随心所欲,意味着对他人自由的威胁和侵害。     

National Culture on the Cross-National Variation of Homicide: An Empirical Application of the Inglehart–Welzel Cultural Map

Although there has been a growing literature on the effects of culture on the cross-national variation of homicide, this literature remains limited in the operationalization of national culture as well as in the modeling of the cultural effects. Adopting a multidimensional measure of national culture developed in the World Values Survey, this study examines the effects of various aspects of national culture, as well as their interaction, on the cross-national variation of homicide. The findings of this study provide evidence for the effect of national culture on homicide variation across countries while painting a more complex picture about the potential mechanisms of these effects.     

论马克思的货币拜物教理论——以“华尔街的贪婪”为例

马克思的货币拜物教理论是反思当下金融危机的独特视角。货币拜物教是资本主义社会的总体判断逻辑。货币的本真意义被反向,货币符号被主体化,货币手段被目的化。货币幻象是货币拜物教的极致状态,是货币价值的心理体验和想象。华尔街的贪婪不过是货币拜物教的当下形态,表现为高杠杆率如影随形、金融评级机构不知知所进退、天价的薪酬和奖金以及权力与金钱孽生的贪婪。     

大学生犯罪原因分析

近年来大学生犯罪率一直呈上升的趋势,尤其是发生了一些特大重大恶性案件,使大学生犯罪问题成了全社会关注的焦点问题。对于大学生犯罪原因的分析,应涵盖大学生群体生存与发展的各个方面,由此便形成了＂社会原因＂、＂个体原因＂、＂家庭原因＂、＂学校原因＂等四个主要原因。     

后ECFA时代两岸金融合作展望研究

2010年6月,《两岸经济合作框架协议》(ECFA)正式签署,从此,台湾商品可免税进入内地市场,内地和台湾将逐渐整合成一个市场,两岸经济和金融合作即将步入制度化轨道。本文在阐述分析ECFA签署前两岸金融业合作状况以及签署ECFA对两岸金融业积极促进作用的基础上,对未来两岸金融业合作进行展望,并提出了后ECFA时代进一步推动两岸金融合作的政策建议。