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The Call of Human Nature: Governmentality and Sexual Offence Prevention Policy in Taiwan

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專輯論文
作者: 
Kevin Chien-Chang Wu
任職單位: 
Department of Social Medicine, National Taiwan University College of Medicine;Department of Psychiatry, National Taiwan University College of Medicine and National Taiwan University Hospital

Since about ten years ago, in Taiwan, there have been booming legislative and administrative activities for female equality and protection. Sexual offence prevention policy is one the most important issues in the trend. Severe sexual crimes shocked society. Media abounds with reports and comments on sexual offenders. Statutes and regulations regarding sexual offence prevention have been revised frequently. Law governs people based on its understanding of human nature. The evolution of sexual offence prevention policy especially involves re-configuring sexual offenders' human nature. In From Dangerousness to Risk, Castel argued that the management of mentally ill offenders has transited from expert discipline of dangerousness to administrative governance of risk. Many criminologists also argued that the neoliberal risk concept is becoming dominant in criminal justice policy making in the United Kingdom and the United States. Following the U.S.

引用: 
Taiwanese Journal for Studies of Science, Technology and Medicine, Number 6 (April 2008), 69-110.

Risk Communication and Public Participation: A Case Study of Building Hsih-Chu's Science-based Industrial Park in I-lan

期刊文稿類型:

專輯論文
作者: 
Wen-Ling Tu, Li-Wen Shih, Ting-I Huang
任職單位: 
Assistant professor, Department of Public Policy and Management, Shih Hsin University; Research assistant, Department of Sociology, National Taiwan University; Graduate student, Department of Public Policy and Management, Shih Hsin University

引用: 
Taiwanese Journal for Studies of Science, Technology and Medicine, Number 5 (October 2007), 71-110.