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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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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
wiley   +1 more source

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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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

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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Five Decades of Research on Rape Myths and Victim Interpretation

Behavioral Sciences &the Law, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT Over the past 5 decades of social science research, scholars have examined false narratives and beliefs associated with rape and sexual assault (often called “rape myths”). This scoping review employs an innovative technique to sample and describe a large cohort of scholarly articles that investigate sexual assault victim interpretation and ...
Elizabeth Trudeau, Ruth Carmi
wiley   +1 more source

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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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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Applying the Rules of Evidence to Expert Testimony About Risk

Behavioral Sciences &the Law, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT Expert opinion about dangerousness or risk is common at sentencing, criminal commitment proceedings and some types of pretrial detention hearings. This article argues that such evidence must be (1) “material” (logically relevant, empirically generalizable, and epistemologically germane), (2) “probative” (a measure of accuracy, which is ...
Christopher Slobogin
wiley   +1 more source

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.
doaj   +1 more source