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Do Intoxicated Offenders Deserve Harsher Sentences? Questioning Veritas in Vino

Journal of Social Philosophy, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT Criminal courts increasingly treat intoxication as an aggravating rather than a mitigating factor in sentencing. This shift, seen in Australian law and other jurisdictions, raises the prospect of unjust outcomes. We examine this trend through the lens of desert‐based justifications for punishment, setting aside questions of deterrence and ...
Mary Jean Walker, Daniel B. Cohen
wiley   +1 more source

Prenatal drug use criminalization and health system avoidance: Evidence from births in Alabama, South Carolina, and Tennessee, 1989-2019. [PDF]

Soc Sci Med
Bruzelius E, Prins SJ, Bates LM, Underhill K, Jarlenski M, Martins SS.   +5 more
europepmc   +1 more source

Somebody's going to emergency, somebody's going to jail: pre-booking diversion and officer discretion. [PDF]

Health Justice
McLean K, Suiter E, Shneibaum N, Miller BL.   +3 more
europepmc   +1 more source

Do deepfakes, digital replicas and human digital twins justify personality rights?

The Journal of World Intellectual Property, EarlyView.
Abstract Unauthorised deepfakes are deeply problematic, from the spreading of misinformation to non‐consensual pornographic content. This paper asks whether deepfakes, digital replicas and human digital twins justify personality rights. To address this question, it examines the harms that deepfakes can cause through disinformation, demeaning content ...
Hayleigh Bosher
wiley   +1 more source

Case Order Effects in Legal Decision-Making. [PDF]

Behav Sci (Basel)
Troop P, Lagnado D.
europepmc   +1 more source

The role of defendant race, expert testimony and interrogation coerciveness on Canadian mock jurors' perceptions of recanted confessions

Legal and Criminological Psychology, EarlyView.
Abstract Purpose In some contexts, US‐based White jurors appear to exhibit a heightened focus on legally relevant information when the defendant is Black as compared to White. The current study tested this ‘watchdog’ effect in the Canadian context by examining mock jurors' decisions using a trial involving a recanted confession with an Indigenous or a ...
Logan Ewanation, Evelyn M. Maeder
wiley   +1 more source

Lessons from the "Trial of the Century" and early forensic science efforts: Beginnings of U.S. forensic science and the little-known role of the National Bureau of Standards. [PDF]

Forensic Sci Int
Butler JM.
europepmc   +1 more source

Rhetorics of Counternationalism: The Limitations of Digital Anti‐Hindutva in Combating Right‐Wing Extremism

Nations and Nationalism, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT How are online discourses in subissues within counternationalist movements constructed? This study better understands what comprises digital counternationalist dissent against right‐wing nationalism, finding that right‐wing nationalism's success can also be explained through limitations in counternationalist discourse.
Mohammad Amaan Siddiqui
wiley   +1 more source

Reducing Youth Legal System Involvement: Updates From the Field and a Call to Action. [PDF]

Acad Pediatr
Tolliver DG, Goemann MC, Abrams LS, Meza BPL, Schickedanz A, Bath E, Heard-Garris N, Barnert E.   +7 more
europepmc   +1 more source

Words After the Storm: Elite Rhetoric and the Limits of De‐Escalation in Postreferendum Catalonia

Nations and Nationalism, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT When does a secessionist crisis end? What drives political elites to shift from hostility to moderation? This article examines the prospects of rhetorical de‐escalation in the aftermath of a secessionist dispute through the paradigmatic case of Catalonia.
Daniel Cetrà, Diego Muro, Mariola Tàrrega, Harrison Parpillon   +3 more
wiley   +1 more source