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Geography in Court: Expertise in Adversarial Settings

Transactions of the Institute of British Geographers, 1991
The use of social science generally, and geography specifically, in litigation in the United States has expanded since the 1970s. This paper examines the issues and nuances involved in geographical expertise, the role of experts, their evaluation by judges and attorneys (and other experts) and the interaction of attorneys, judges and the media. It also
William A V Clark
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5 Settings for the Court of Carlos III

2020
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Observations of reintegrative shaming in a mental health court [PDF]

International Journal of Law and Psychiatry, 2011
This study compares the use of stigmatizing and reintegrative shame – as specified in Braithwaite’s Crime, shame and reintegration (1989) – across traditional criminal court and mental health court settings.
Bradley Ray, Cindy Brooks Dollar
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Reference Services in Courts and Governmental Settings

Legal Reference Services Quarterly, 2007
SUMMARY This paper examines the trends affecting reference services in court and government law libraries, such as globalization, shrinking budgets, the increasing availability of information, declining in-person patron visits, increasing numbers of pro se patrons, and the emergence of new technologies and the millennial generation.
Luis M. Acosta, Anna M. Cherry
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On Auditors and the Courts in an Adverse Selection Setting

Journal of Accounting Research, 1990
Most models of auditing in the accounting literature may be classified as agency models or signaling models.' The emphasis in an agency model is on a single firm; the auditor is typically modeled as a utility-maximizing player who is hired by a firm's owner to better control a manager as well as to improve their risk-sharing arrangement.
Nahum D. Melumad, Lynda Thoman
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Courts as gatekeepers in managed care settings.

Health affairs (Project Hope), 1998
Recently, a court ordered that a woman convicted for driving while intoxicated receive alcohol treatment.1 The managed care company responsible for administering the program that was to treat her denied payment. A representative of the company, commenting on its decision, was quoted as saying that “treatment is not medically necessary [simply] because ...
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Agenda Setting in the Supreme Court

2009
During the great debates over ratification of the Constitution, Alexander Hamilton of New York expressed the hope that justices will act as general monitors, broadly supervising the other branches of government and the states and holding them firmly to the path of constitutional duty.1 The unique authority possessed by the Supreme Court in its exercise
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Agenda-Setting on the U.S. Supreme Court

2017
Understanding the conditions under which the Supreme Court sets its agenda is crucial to understanding Supreme Court behavior. After all, before the justices make any decision on the merits of a case, they must first decide whether to hear it at all. This chapter analyzes Supreme Court agenda-setting. It begins by describing the process justices employ
Ryan J. Owens, James Sieja
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New Approaches in the Juvenile Court Setting

Crime & Delinquency, 1964
For most of us, the juvenile court has existed all our lives. Even so, most people do not understand it very well and it has never been given the tools to do its job properly. Many judges are unprepared for their tasks when they assume juvenile court responsibility; there are not enough probation officers with adequate training; and detention services ...
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