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Unveiling Bias: The Impact of Male Rape Myths and Stereotypes on Juror Verdicts in Male‐on‐Male Rape Trials

Behavioral Sciences &the Law, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT This study examined how male rape myths, racial/ethnicity biases, and sexuality stereotypes influence verdicts in male‐on‐male rape trials—an area that is currently under‐researched. A sample of 463 participants read a mock rape trial, where both the defendant and complainant were male, with defendant ethnicity (White, Black, Asian) and ...
Lee J. Curley, B. Kennath Widanaralalage, Dominic Willmott, Joanna Ermenkova   +3 more
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Optimized Risk Assessment in Forensic Practice: A Comparison of Machine Learning and Manual Scoring Approaches

Behavioral Sciences &the Law, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT As correctional jurisdictions and risk instrument developers look to optimize scoring for specific population needs, an open question remains ‐ which method is optimal. Popular scoring methods range from manual simple scoring approaches (e.g., Burgess) to more complex machine learning algorithms (e.g., random forests).
Danielle J. Rieger, Ralph C. Serin, Shelley L. Brown   +2 more
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On Second Thought: The Impact of Confessions, DNA, and Belief Perseverance on Students' Perceptions of Guilt and Interrogations

Behavioral Sciences &the Law, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT Despite growing public knowledge of false confession cases, research with students and community members continues to find that people assume confessions indicate guilt. The present research explored the implications of belief perseverance: the tendency to maintain a belief even when confronted with compelling contradictory evidence.
Taya D. Henry, Kimberley A. Clow, Victoria Hall   +2 more
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Preliminary Investigation of Crimes Against Personal Liberty: Algorithms for Resolving Investigative Issues

Вестник Кемеровского государственного университета. Серия: гуманитарные и общественные науки
Crimes against personal liberty are numerous and latent in nature. As a result, investigators should rely on scientific recommendations as early as at the preliminary stage of investigation because the procedural means of preliminary verification of ...
Aleksandr N. Kaliuzhnyi
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Towards a Developmental Retribution and Reciprocity Model (RRM): Implications for Youth Justice

Behavioral Sciences &the Law, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT Youth justice systems are frequently justified by reference to developmental change, yet chronological age is often treated as a proxy for underlying psychological processes. This paper develops a Developmental Retribution and Reciprocity Model (RRM), integrating evolutionary criminology with contemporary developmental neuroscience to clarify ...
Evelyn Svingen
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FASD and Intellectual Disability Equivalence: A Meta‐Analysis of Suggestibility During Forensic Interviews

Behavioral Sciences &the Law, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT Intellectual disability (ID) equivalence describes conditions in which individuals function cognitively and adaptively at levels comparable to ID without meeting IQ‐based diagnostic criteria. Fetal alcohol spectrum disorder (FASD) is characterised by impaired executive and adaptive functioning despite IQs often above the ID threshold ...
David J. Gilbert, Stephen Ikechukwu Azumara, Jacqueline M. Wheatcroft, Karen Steele, Penny Cook, Raja Mukherjee, Gisli Gudjonsson, Natalie Novick Brown   +7 more
wiley   +1 more source

Violent crimes in megacities [PDF]

This note presents the situation of violent crimes in Indian megacities (35 megacities with more than ten lakh population in 2001)for 2009 based on the information published in “Crime in India” by the National Crime Record Bureau (NCRB).crime,india crime,
Pradhan, Kanhu Charan
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Taking Fuel From the Fire: Regulating the Introduction of Rape Myth Infused and Irrelevant Evidence About Complainants in Rape Trials

Behavioral Sciences &the Law, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT This article considers how victim‐blaming and stereotypical attitudes about appropriate victim behaviour can impact upon the operation of rape trials, particularly by prejudicing a complainant's testimony where s/he can be portrayed as having departed from the stereotypical norm of a ‘real victim’.
Susan Leahy
wiley   +1 more source

Teacher–Student Relationship Quality as a Mediator in the Association of Parent–Child Communication With Adolescent Bullying Perpetration and Substance Use: Evidence From the 2017/2018 HBSC Study

Behavioral Sciences &the Law, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT Bullying perpetration and substance use are two prevalent and concerning forms of delinquent behavior worldwide. Although parent–child communication has been theorized to reduce adolescents' involvement in these behaviors, empirical evidence remains mixed.
Hang Zhou, Ji‐Kang Chen
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UM FEBRÔNIO BELO-HORIZONTINO? O CASO GUARACI DO NASCIMENTO (Dossiê Gênero e violência na população LGBTTQIA no Brasil)

e-Hum: Revista das Áreas de Humanidade do Centro Universitário de Belo Horizonte, 2017
eoi/doi Deposit-Electronic Object Identifier http://eoi.citefactor.org/10.11248/ehum.v9i2.1962 A FEBRONIO BELO-HORIZONTINO? THE GUARACI DO NASCIMENTO CASE.
Luiz Gonzaga Morando Queiroz
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