Background: Externalizing symptoms in children (aggression, oppositionality, property and status violations), and the Attention Deficit Hyperactivity Disorder (ADHD) triad of problems (inattention, hyperactivity, impu...Background: Externalizing symptoms in children (aggression, oppositionality, property and status violations), and the Attention Deficit Hyperactivity Disorder (ADHD) triad of problems (inattention, hyperactivity, impulsivity) display a substantial co-morbidity. The “short temper” problem is common to these syndromes, which are predictive of a range of negative life outcomes including substance abuse and criminality in adulthood. There is a gender gap for the syndromes (boys are more affected), for criminality (men are more criminal) and knowledge (we know less about girls’ criminal careers). Aims: The main aim was to compare crime rates and crime profiles among former Child and Adolescent Psychiatric (CAP) patients with corresponding data for matched controls, focusing externalizing and internalizing psychiatric symptoms, sex and adverse social factors. Method: Data for 6055 former CAP-Stockholm outpatients were extracted from available treatment registers. For each CAP patient, two matched controls from the general population were randomly selected from the same area of residence, of the same sex and with the same year of birth (N approx. 12,000). Data on criminality for these individuals were obtained from a Swedish police register which also includes crimes committed prior to age 15. Results: Overall, twice as many former CAP patients were registered for crimes at a mean age of 21.4 compared to the controls. The over-representation was larger for crimes of violence. Females were registered for a much lower number of crimes, particularly crimes of violence (gender gap). The gender gap among the CAP patients was smaller than among controls. Compared with controls, CAP patients characterized by externalizing problems at referral had an odds ratio (OR) for crimes of 5 for males and 10 for females. Neglect was the only adverse social factor which was associated with a higher crime rate and affected boys more than girls. Compared to previous Swedish CAP cohorts, the criminality of the current cohort was much higher. Conclusion: In-depth studies of female crime careers characterized by externalising problems are needed. Child psychiatric services must find new and more effective ways of identifying and treating children with such problems, regardless of sex. The findings can guide the choice of strategies which will reduce crime rate.展开更多
Insofar as the right to free speech is constitutionally protected, the article distinguishes between opinions and facts. Whereas the former is protected as a free speech matter, the latter has nothing to do with the r...Insofar as the right to free speech is constitutionally protected, the article distinguishes between opinions and facts. Whereas the former is protected as a free speech matter, the latter has nothing to do with the right to free expression Holocaust Denial concerns denying facts and therefore, it is not a question of freedom of speech. At the same vein, inquiring into the conceptual grounds of the theory of criminalization, the article provides that Holocaust Denial cannot and should not be criminalized.展开更多
The focus of this study is the critical analysis of data related to Hispanic males and criminality, Factors, such as marital status, income level, age, and police contact, are measureable entities that are at the core...The focus of this study is the critical analysis of data related to Hispanic males and criminality, Factors, such as marital status, income level, age, and police contact, are measureable entities that are at the core of the statistical ,analysis, A cross-disciplinary approach provides a cultural context for the statistical world of numbers, The socially conflicting terms of masculinity and maleness will lead to a discussion of macho behavior and criminaliW, Macho behavior, often interpreted as aggressive, may arouse police suspicion, In this case, the police will stop Hispanic males because of their behavior, not necessarily because they committed a crime, This study will show that the cycle of poverty prevents Hispanic males of low-income families from contacting with the police, whereas uneducated Hispanic males must confirm their masculinity in a criminal behavior, CriminaliW, often associated with violence as machismo, is the social over compensation for a male inferiority complex that finds its origin in the Spanish conquest of South America,展开更多
Following the Enlightenment,the principle of human rights protection promoted the transition of criminal justice systems from“punitiveness”to“penal humanitarianism.”However,in the second half of the 20th century,t...Following the Enlightenment,the principle of human rights protection promoted the transition of criminal justice systems from“punitiveness”to“penal humanitarianism.”However,in the second half of the 20th century,the United States and the United Kingdom witnessed the rise of“new punitiveness,”which is characterized by mass incarceration,a punitive turn in community supervision,and numerous collateral consequences of criminal offences.New punitiveness did not emerge from a unified movement or agenda but was driven by changes in crime control philosophies,adjustments in criminal laws,and the initiation of criminal justice campaigns against a backdrop of perceived severe public safety deterioration.Its deeper causes can be traced to the dominance of neoliberalism in economics,the unprecedented alignment of political elites and public attitudes under electoral and partisan politics,and traditional class control mechanisms targeting specific identity groups.Studying new punitiveness can offer valuable insights for identifying potential risks in China’s criminal justice system at both theoretical and practical levels,while providing methodological inspiration for advancing interdisciplinary research.展开更多
Although criminal law as a positive branch of law has been established at the early stage of founding the first states,scientific analysis of basic terms and institutes of criminal law began only in the 18th and the 1...Although criminal law as a positive branch of law has been established at the early stage of founding the first states,scientific analysis of basic terms and institutes of criminal law began only in the 18th and the 19th century.At the same time more natural and social sciences have been developed looking for the answers to the following questions:(1)what are the causes of crime?(2)what is the baseline of criminal responsibility?and(3)what are the measures that state should implement towards the criminal offences’perpetrators?In answering these questions series of scientific trends and understandings are developed in order to analyse forms of social reactions to crime in different ways,and this paper elaborates that.展开更多
The Larry Nassar scandal at Michigan State University is the worst and most widespread case of childhood sex abuse in this nation’s history to date,affecting over 150 young girls and women.This article asks:What were...The Larry Nassar scandal at Michigan State University is the worst and most widespread case of childhood sex abuse in this nation’s history to date,affecting over 150 young girls and women.This article asks:What were the structural and ideological mechanisms,policies,and practices that enabled this widespread abuse over a thirty-year period?Louis Althusser’s Marxist theory of Ideological State Apparatuses(and feminist responses to this theory)is useful in explaining how state-making institutions-media outlets,universities,athletic organizations,and family units-are not only produced and reproduced along class lines,but also with respect to gendered power dynamics.By examining the patriarchal nature of ISAs,one can begin to understand how Larry Nassar was for so long shielded from suspicion and criminal prosecution by the institutions that employed him.展开更多
In an evolutionary perspective individuals are expected to vary the degree of parental love and care in relation to the fitness value that a child represents. Hence, stepparents are expected to show less solicitude th...In an evolutionary perspective individuals are expected to vary the degree of parental love and care in relation to the fitness value that a child represents. Hence, stepparents are expected to show less solicitude than genetically related parents, and this lack of genetic relatedness has been used to explain the higher frequencies of child abuse and homicide found in stepfamilies. However, other factors than non-genetic relatedness may cause this over-representation in stepfamilies. Here we use a 45-year data set of parental chiltl homicides in Sweden to test two hypotheses related to the higher incidence in stepfamilies： 1） adults in different types of family differ in their general disposition to use violence, and 2） parents are more likely to kill stepchildren than genetically related children. Of the 152 perpetrators in biparental families there was an overrepresentation of perpetrators in step- families （n=27） compared with the general population. We found support for the first hypothesis in that both general and violent crime rates were higher in stepfamilies, both in the general population and among perpetrators of child homicide. However, we found no support for the second hypothesis because of the 27 perpetrators in stepfamilies the perpetrator killed a genetically related child in 13 cases, a stepchild in 13 cases and both types of children in one case. Moreover, out of the 12 families where the perpetrator lived with both stepchildren and genetic children, there was no bias towards killing stepchildren. Thus, we found no evidence for an effect of non-genetic relatedness per se [Current Zoology 57 （3）： 253-259, 2011].展开更多
Iron Maiden is one of the leading bands of the New Wave of British Heavy Metal （NWoBHM）. The song lyrics of the first three albums deal, among other things, with the usual topics the youth of the time were concerned...Iron Maiden is one of the leading bands of the New Wave of British Heavy Metal （NWoBHM）. The song lyrics of the first three albums deal, among other things, with the usual topics the youth of the time were concerned with （love, rebellion and resistance against the establishment）, although they were viewed from a different angle： instead of love the lyrics talk about prostitution （Charlotte the Harlot）, sexual harassment （Prowler）, and juvenile criminality （Running Free）. This paper aims, on the one hand to show an overview of the topics of the song lyrics from the earlier Iron Maiden albums, and on the other hand to examine the concrete consequences the lyrics had on the music of the band （text interpretation）. During the 1980s, Iron Maiden began to diverge both musically （in the direction of experimental heavy metal） and thematically （among others, science fiction and war） from the NWoBHM. A further aim of this paper is to examine how much these new themes in the narrative influenced the music of Iron Maiden.展开更多
As the mainstream media describes Rodrigo Roa Duterte,the 16th President of the Republic of the Philippines,widespread generalizations emerged.He was the country's first Mindanaoan president and acquired popularit...As the mainstream media describes Rodrigo Roa Duterte,the 16th President of the Republic of the Philippines,widespread generalizations emerged.He was the country's first Mindanaoan president and acquired popularity among Filipinos by working on platforms to reduce drug addiction,corruption,and criminality,and received 39 percent of the vote in the 2016 Presidential Election.Back on the year 2016,during the first Presidential Debate,Duterte had sworn that he will eliminate the extensive propagation of drugs in the country with his first six months of authority.With the advent of his presidential campaign,arises the issue on extra-judicial killings from his ruthless hunt for drug pushers and users which is highly criticized by the human rights devotees.This was the cornerstone of Duterte's presidential campaign and the crime solution hallmark of his 22-year period as mayor of Davao City.While the president's critics state that this is unjust and immoral,this paper argues that Duterte's radical politics is necessary in the lessening if not total eradication of criminality and corruption that the country had been experiencing.Using the lens of Deontological Ethics and Utilitarian Ethics,this paper tries to explain Duterte's radical politics and why it is needed in the contemporary Philippine society.展开更多
The task of prison term prediction is to predict the term of penalty based on textual fact description for a certain type of criminal case.Recent advances in deep learning frameworks inspire us to propose a two-step m...The task of prison term prediction is to predict the term of penalty based on textual fact description for a certain type of criminal case.Recent advances in deep learning frameworks inspire us to propose a two-step method to address this problem.To obtain a better understanding and more specific representation of the legal texts,we summarize a judgment model according to relevant law articles and then apply it in the extraction of case feature from judgment documents.By formalizing prison term prediction as a regression problem,we adopt the linear regression model and the neural network model to train the prison term predictor.In experiments,we construct a real-world dataset of theft case judgment documents.Experimental results demonstrate that our method can effectively extract judgment-specific case features from textual fact descriptions.The best performance of the proposed predictor is obtained with a mean absolute error of 3.2087 months,and the accuracy of 72.54%and 90.01%at the error upper bounds of three and six months,respectively.展开更多
文摘Background: Externalizing symptoms in children (aggression, oppositionality, property and status violations), and the Attention Deficit Hyperactivity Disorder (ADHD) triad of problems (inattention, hyperactivity, impulsivity) display a substantial co-morbidity. The “short temper” problem is common to these syndromes, which are predictive of a range of negative life outcomes including substance abuse and criminality in adulthood. There is a gender gap for the syndromes (boys are more affected), for criminality (men are more criminal) and knowledge (we know less about girls’ criminal careers). Aims: The main aim was to compare crime rates and crime profiles among former Child and Adolescent Psychiatric (CAP) patients with corresponding data for matched controls, focusing externalizing and internalizing psychiatric symptoms, sex and adverse social factors. Method: Data for 6055 former CAP-Stockholm outpatients were extracted from available treatment registers. For each CAP patient, two matched controls from the general population were randomly selected from the same area of residence, of the same sex and with the same year of birth (N approx. 12,000). Data on criminality for these individuals were obtained from a Swedish police register which also includes crimes committed prior to age 15. Results: Overall, twice as many former CAP patients were registered for crimes at a mean age of 21.4 compared to the controls. The over-representation was larger for crimes of violence. Females were registered for a much lower number of crimes, particularly crimes of violence (gender gap). The gender gap among the CAP patients was smaller than among controls. Compared with controls, CAP patients characterized by externalizing problems at referral had an odds ratio (OR) for crimes of 5 for males and 10 for females. Neglect was the only adverse social factor which was associated with a higher crime rate and affected boys more than girls. Compared to previous Swedish CAP cohorts, the criminality of the current cohort was much higher. Conclusion: In-depth studies of female crime careers characterized by externalising problems are needed. Child psychiatric services must find new and more effective ways of identifying and treating children with such problems, regardless of sex. The findings can guide the choice of strategies which will reduce crime rate.
文摘Insofar as the right to free speech is constitutionally protected, the article distinguishes between opinions and facts. Whereas the former is protected as a free speech matter, the latter has nothing to do with the right to free expression Holocaust Denial concerns denying facts and therefore, it is not a question of freedom of speech. At the same vein, inquiring into the conceptual grounds of the theory of criminalization, the article provides that Holocaust Denial cannot and should not be criminalized.
文摘The focus of this study is the critical analysis of data related to Hispanic males and criminality, Factors, such as marital status, income level, age, and police contact, are measureable entities that are at the core of the statistical ,analysis, A cross-disciplinary approach provides a cultural context for the statistical world of numbers, The socially conflicting terms of masculinity and maleness will lead to a discussion of macho behavior and criminaliW, Macho behavior, often interpreted as aggressive, may arouse police suspicion, In this case, the police will stop Hispanic males because of their behavior, not necessarily because they committed a crime, This study will show that the cycle of poverty prevents Hispanic males of low-income families from contacting with the police, whereas uneducated Hispanic males must confirm their masculinity in a criminal behavior, CriminaliW, often associated with violence as machismo, is the social over compensation for a male inferiority complex that finds its origin in the Spanish conquest of South America,
基金a phased result of the“National Funded Postdoctoral Researchers Program”(GZC20230818).
文摘Following the Enlightenment,the principle of human rights protection promoted the transition of criminal justice systems from“punitiveness”to“penal humanitarianism.”However,in the second half of the 20th century,the United States and the United Kingdom witnessed the rise of“new punitiveness,”which is characterized by mass incarceration,a punitive turn in community supervision,and numerous collateral consequences of criminal offences.New punitiveness did not emerge from a unified movement or agenda but was driven by changes in crime control philosophies,adjustments in criminal laws,and the initiation of criminal justice campaigns against a backdrop of perceived severe public safety deterioration.Its deeper causes can be traced to the dominance of neoliberalism in economics,the unprecedented alignment of political elites and public attitudes under electoral and partisan politics,and traditional class control mechanisms targeting specific identity groups.Studying new punitiveness can offer valuable insights for identifying potential risks in China’s criminal justice system at both theoretical and practical levels,while providing methodological inspiration for advancing interdisciplinary research.
文摘Although criminal law as a positive branch of law has been established at the early stage of founding the first states,scientific analysis of basic terms and institutes of criminal law began only in the 18th and the 19th century.At the same time more natural and social sciences have been developed looking for the answers to the following questions:(1)what are the causes of crime?(2)what is the baseline of criminal responsibility?and(3)what are the measures that state should implement towards the criminal offences’perpetrators?In answering these questions series of scientific trends and understandings are developed in order to analyse forms of social reactions to crime in different ways,and this paper elaborates that.
文摘The Larry Nassar scandal at Michigan State University is the worst and most widespread case of childhood sex abuse in this nation’s history to date,affecting over 150 young girls and women.This article asks:What were the structural and ideological mechanisms,policies,and practices that enabled this widespread abuse over a thirty-year period?Louis Althusser’s Marxist theory of Ideological State Apparatuses(and feminist responses to this theory)is useful in explaining how state-making institutions-media outlets,universities,athletic organizations,and family units-are not only produced and reproduced along class lines,but also with respect to gendered power dynamics.By examining the patriarchal nature of ISAs,one can begin to understand how Larry Nassar was for so long shielded from suspicion and criminal prosecution by the institutions that employed him.
文摘In an evolutionary perspective individuals are expected to vary the degree of parental love and care in relation to the fitness value that a child represents. Hence, stepparents are expected to show less solicitude than genetically related parents, and this lack of genetic relatedness has been used to explain the higher frequencies of child abuse and homicide found in stepfamilies. However, other factors than non-genetic relatedness may cause this over-representation in stepfamilies. Here we use a 45-year data set of parental chiltl homicides in Sweden to test two hypotheses related to the higher incidence in stepfamilies： 1） adults in different types of family differ in their general disposition to use violence, and 2） parents are more likely to kill stepchildren than genetically related children. Of the 152 perpetrators in biparental families there was an overrepresentation of perpetrators in step- families （n=27） compared with the general population. We found support for the first hypothesis in that both general and violent crime rates were higher in stepfamilies, both in the general population and among perpetrators of child homicide. However, we found no support for the second hypothesis because of the 27 perpetrators in stepfamilies the perpetrator killed a genetically related child in 13 cases, a stepchild in 13 cases and both types of children in one case. Moreover, out of the 12 families where the perpetrator lived with both stepchildren and genetic children, there was no bias towards killing stepchildren. Thus, we found no evidence for an effect of non-genetic relatedness per se [Current Zoology 57 （3）： 253-259, 2011].
文摘Iron Maiden is one of the leading bands of the New Wave of British Heavy Metal （NWoBHM）. The song lyrics of the first three albums deal, among other things, with the usual topics the youth of the time were concerned with （love, rebellion and resistance against the establishment）, although they were viewed from a different angle： instead of love the lyrics talk about prostitution （Charlotte the Harlot）, sexual harassment （Prowler）, and juvenile criminality （Running Free）. This paper aims, on the one hand to show an overview of the topics of the song lyrics from the earlier Iron Maiden albums, and on the other hand to examine the concrete consequences the lyrics had on the music of the band （text interpretation）. During the 1980s, Iron Maiden began to diverge both musically （in the direction of experimental heavy metal） and thematically （among others, science fiction and war） from the NWoBHM. A further aim of this paper is to examine how much these new themes in the narrative influenced the music of Iron Maiden.
文摘As the mainstream media describes Rodrigo Roa Duterte,the 16th President of the Republic of the Philippines,widespread generalizations emerged.He was the country's first Mindanaoan president and acquired popularity among Filipinos by working on platforms to reduce drug addiction,corruption,and criminality,and received 39 percent of the vote in the 2016 Presidential Election.Back on the year 2016,during the first Presidential Debate,Duterte had sworn that he will eliminate the extensive propagation of drugs in the country with his first six months of authority.With the advent of his presidential campaign,arises the issue on extra-judicial killings from his ruthless hunt for drug pushers and users which is highly criticized by the human rights devotees.This was the cornerstone of Duterte's presidential campaign and the crime solution hallmark of his 22-year period as mayor of Davao City.While the president's critics state that this is unjust and immoral,this paper argues that Duterte's radical politics is necessary in the lessening if not total eradication of criminality and corruption that the country had been experiencing.Using the lens of Deontological Ethics and Utilitarian Ethics,this paper tries to explain Duterte's radical politics and why it is needed in the contemporary Philippine society.
基金This work is supported in part by the National Key Research and Development Program of China under grants 2018YFC0830602 and 2016QY03D0501in part by the National Natural Science Foundation of China(NSFC)under grants 61872111,61732022 and 61601146.
文摘The task of prison term prediction is to predict the term of penalty based on textual fact description for a certain type of criminal case.Recent advances in deep learning frameworks inspire us to propose a two-step method to address this problem.To obtain a better understanding and more specific representation of the legal texts,we summarize a judgment model according to relevant law articles and then apply it in the extraction of case feature from judgment documents.By formalizing prison term prediction as a regression problem,we adopt the linear regression model and the neural network model to train the prison term predictor.In experiments,we construct a real-world dataset of theft case judgment documents.Experimental results demonstrate that our method can effectively extract judgment-specific case features from textual fact descriptions.The best performance of the proposed predictor is obtained with a mean absolute error of 3.2087 months,and the accuracy of 72.54%and 90.01%at the error upper bounds of three and six months,respectively.
