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 +2 more
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Plea Bargaining in the Dark: The Duty to Disclose Exculpatory Brady Evidence During Plea Bargaining [PDF]
, 2013 Ninety-seven percent of federal convictions are the result of guilty pleas. Despite the criminal justice system’s reliance on plea bargaining, the law regarding the prosecution’s duty to disclose certain evidence during this stage of the judicial ...
Petegorsky, Michael Nasser
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The Development and Evolution of the U.S. Law of Corporate Criminal Liability [PDF]
, 2014 In the United States, corporate criminal liability developed in response to the industrial revolution and the rise in the scope and importance of corporate activities.
Beale, Sara Sun
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Criminal Behaviour and Mental Health, EarlyView.ABSTRACT Background Suicide is a leading cause of death within correctional institutions, with men convicted of sexual offences over‐represented among those who have attempted suicide. Despite an increased risk for suicidality, limited research has examined how past suicide attempts are associated with sexual offending and specific risk domains on ...
Jordyn Monaghan +4 more
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Sinkronisasi Aplikasi Fungsi Penyidikan dan Penuntutan dalam Penegakan Hukum Tindak Pidana Psikotropika Berdasarkan Sistem Peradilan Pidana Terpadu di Wilayah Hukum Kepolisian Kota Pontianak [PDF]
, 2016 Thesis with the title: "Synchronization Function Application Investigation and Prosecution In Law Enforcement Crime Psychotropic Substances Under the Criminal Justice System Integrated On Jurisdiction Police Pontianak City" aims to determine the ...
RONALD WAHYU KERTONEGORO, S.H. A.21210027, Jurnal Mahasiswa S2 Hukum UNTAN
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The Minimum Age of Criminal Responsibility Internationally—History, Systems and the Future
Criminal Behaviour and Mental Health, EarlyView.ABSTRACT Background In most countries, a criminal conviction requires evidence that the individual committed the act and that they had the mental capacity to understand what they were doing and that it was wrong. Youth, as an indicator of brain development, is one factor affecting criminal capacity.
Enys Delmage +18 more
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PHASES OF THE ROMANIAN CRIMINAL PROCEEDINGS AS PER THE PROVISIONS OF THE NEW CODE OF CRIMINAL PROCEDURE [PDF]
Challenges of the Knowledge Society, 2018 According to the provisions of the Code of Criminal Procedure of 1968, a typical structure of the criminal proceedings included three phases: criminal prosecution, judgment and enforcement of final criminal decision; each such phase was delimited by ...
Mihai OLARIU
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Problems of the formation of the criminal proceedings institution on private prosecution cases at the present stage of criminal procedure development [PDF]
Krymskij Naučnyj Vestnik, 2019 In article the questions regulating criminal prosecution for private prosecution are considered. The history of formation of this institute is separately considered.
Zhurba O.L., Filonenko D.G.
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Domestic Violence: The Criminal Law Response. [PDF]
, 2013 Domestic violence is serious and should be severely dealt with by the criminal law. There is no offence of domestic violence as such; instead the criminal law responds to it with a number of different offences which are examined in this article, as is ...
Parsons, Simon
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Invalid Forensic Science Testimony and Wrongful Convictions [PDF]
, 2009 This is the first study to explore the forensic science testimony by prosecution experts in the trials of innocent persons, all convicted of serious crimes, who were later exonerated by post-conviction DNA testing.
Garrett, Brandon L., Neufeld, Peter J.
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