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。     

当前经济犯罪的特点与防治对策——以绵阳市为例

当前经济犯罪的特点表现为犯罪领域扩大,涉案金额上升,犯罪类型增加,涉案人员岗位层面多元,但立案数量则呈下降的趋势。同时随着对外经济交往增加,跨国犯罪出现,涉农经济犯罪案件突出,作案手段复杂隐蔽。笔者通过对四川省绵阳市经济犯罪类型及成因等问题进行分析比较,提出了相应的防范对策,具一定的现实意义。     

冯契的逻辑范畴学说及其方法论意义

作为当代著名的哲学家、逻辑学家,冯契对逻辑范畴作了开拓性的探索：阐明了逻辑范畴的辩证本性和特点;考察了逻辑范畴体系与认识的辩证运动;建构了以“类”、“故”、“理”为骨架的逻辑范畴体系;探讨了以“类”、“故”、“理”为骨架的逻辑范畴体系的方法论意义。     

论我国刑事被害人的控告犯罪权之完善

刑事被害人在刑事诉讼中不能仅仅成为国家追诉犯罪的工具,而应该具有诉讼主体地位,其权利应当得到保障。控告犯罪是刑事诉讼的起点,我国被害人控告犯罪的权利存在着诸多缺陷,不能保障被害人的有效参与。应当完善被害人控告犯罪的权利,保障被害人对刑事诉讼程序的有效参与。     

犯罪记忆心理的可测性与局限性

中国的心理测试技术,是运用现代心理学、犯罪心理学和实验心理学原理以及神经心理学、生物电子学等研究成果,通过专用测试仪器软硬件和智能化计算机系统,同时同步记录人的多项心理生物反映指标,进而评判心理痕迹对应相关程度的实验心理技术。心理测试中心近20年犯罪心理测试的研究成果、以及经过直接参与办理全国各地600多起重特大疑难案件的实践、和经过对近万人实案测试图谱的评判分析研究,得出的结论是:违法犯罪人在经历过违法犯罪事件之后的记忆违法犯罪心理痕迹是可测的。这项技术在辅助刑侦工作方面有着很大的作用,但同样,我们也要看到它的局限性。     

我国网络犯罪的刑事法对策探析

网络犯罪是高科技发展到一定阶段的产物,是一种新型犯罪。高科技的特征主要是发展快更新快,而刑事法的特征是相对的稳定性,这就必然导致刑事法的发展必然落后于高科技的发展,使网络犯罪对刑事法产生诸多冲击。解决这一问题最好的办法就是利用刑事法对网络犯罪进行规制,弥补立法滞后的不足。在我国现行刑法关于网络犯罪的规定分析的基础上,指出我国网络犯罪刑事立法的不足之处,提出规制我国网络犯罪的刑事法对策。     

论毒品犯罪中的诱惑侦查

在毒品案件侦查实践中,诱惑侦查已被大量使用,我国立法应有限度地承认诱惑侦查的合法性,并加强对其规制,建立侦查机关内部监督与检察机关外部监督相结合的监督体制。在司法实践中,应从诱惑侦查主体、适用范围、侦查对象选定、特情的建立和选派、立案及诱惑行为强度等几个方面进行规制。