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Judging Offenders With Intellectual Disabilities: Systematic Review of Criminal Justice System Professionals' Expressed Views and Attitudes Towards Offenders With Intellectual Disabilities

open access: yesJournal of Intellectual Disability Research, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT Background The diagnosis of an intellectual disability is suggested to have particularly stigmatising connotations, particularly within the criminal justice system (CJS). This paper aims to synthesise qualitative studies investigating the attitudes of CJS professionals to people with intellectual disabilities (PWID), specifically offenders ...
Georgia Powell   +4 more
wiley   +1 more source

What does the showing of voluntary participation by the defendant do for criminal justice professionals?

open access: yesJournal of Law and Society, EarlyView.
Abstract How do justice professionals, in their everyday practices, reconcile what they regard as their competing obligations: to allow participation and yet to conclude cases efficiently? This article argues that rather than doing so through individual self‐talk denying the value of participation, or, by overt pressure on the defendant, professionals ...
CYRUS TATA
wiley   +1 more source

Unauthorized Practice of Law: Bank Prohibited From Providing Estate Analysis Service [PDF]

open access: yes, 1966
The Ohio Supreme Court enjoined a national bank from providing estate analysis reports to prospective customers on the ground that this program involved the giving of legal advice by a lay institution.

core   +1 more source

Employability perceptions and the disclosure of a violent offence

open access: yesLegal and Criminological Psychology, EarlyView.
Abstract Purpose Employment is a key factor in reducing reoffending, yet violent offenders face substantial challenges in the job market. This study examined perceptions of employability after the disclosure of a violent offence. Method We measured perceptions of employability before and after a Disclosure and Barring Service (DBS) check for a public ...
Cody Normitta Porter, Mircea Zloteanu
wiley   +1 more source

Changing “Sex”

open access: yesMetaphilosophy, EarlyView.
Abstract Can you change sex? Can you change the meaning of the concept “sex”? Does changing “sex” make changing sex possible? Would changing “sex” to make changing sex not only possible but also easy be a good thing? Might it, as some argue, help us bring about a new way of thinking and of acting that liberates us from the logic of heteronormativity ...
Neil Gascoigne
wiley   +1 more source

The Journey to Comprehensibility: Court Forms as the First Barrier to Accessing Justice. [PDF]

open access: yesInt J Semiot Law, 2022
Grieshofer Née Tkacukova T   +2 more
europepmc   +1 more source

Rhode Island Report on the Judiciary 1979 [PDF]

open access: yes, 1979
This report describes progress and programs in all the state courts. Its articles briefly mention some of the efforts and achievements of our judges and court employees to better serve the people of Rhode Island and the interests of ...

core   +1 more source

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