Who Qualifies to Assure? The Professional and Managerial Capture of Sustainability Assurance
Business Strategy and the Environment, EarlyView.ABSTRACT This study examines how the qualification of assurors in sustainability and environmental reporting assurance (SERA) is constructed and why it remains fiercely contested. Drawing on actor–network theory (ANT) and qualitative evidence from regulators, NGOs, assurors and reporting companies in India, we conceptualise ‘qualification’ as a ...
Flavia Rodricks +2 more
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Predictive Validity of Operationalized Criteria for the Assessment of Criminal Responsibility of Sexual Offenders With Paraphilic Disorders-A Randomized Control Trial With Mental Health and Legal Professionals. [PDF]
Front Psychol, 2020 Dobbrunz S +3 more
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Semiannual; Began with Jan. 1, 2009.; Mandated by Public Act 08-01, section 40 (h), an Act Concerning Criminal Justice Reform.; Imprint from letter of ...
Connecticut. Criminal Justice Information System Governing Board.
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Decision Theory and Proof Standards for Future Crimes: Possible Uses and Open Questions
Behavioral Sciences &the Law, EarlyView.ABSTRACT What should be the proof standard for applying preventive criminal sanctions based on an establishment of risk of reoffending? This is an open question in legal systems around the world. Various authors suggest that we can answer it by using decision theory. This approach conceptualises the proof standard as a probabilistic threshold. A person
Hylke Jellema, Johannes Bijlsma
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'My Brain Made Me Do It?' Reflections on the Role of Neuroscience in Assessing Criminal Responsibility - A South African Medico-legal Perspective. [PDF]
Psychiatr Psychol Law, 2020 Stevens GP.
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Legal Professionals Use an Implicit Checklist to Assess Expert Witness Credibility
Behavioral Sciences &the Law, EarlyView.ABSTRACT In a court of law, some forms of evidence are too technical to interpret without the help of an expert witness. However, expert testimony sometimes leads to wrongful conviction. We used an online survey to quantitatively compare how legal professionals (n = 122) and lay people (n = 109) understood what makes an expert witness credible.
Mahensingh Deonaran +2 more
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Criminal Responsibility in Individuals with Gambling Disorder in Brazil. [PDF]
J Gambl StudRoza TH +4 more
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The Age of Questions: Truth Regimes and Subjectivity in the Era of Large Language Models
Behavioral Sciences &the Law, EarlyView.ABSTRACT This essay explores how digital technologies shape subjectivity's infra‐political constitution, focusing on large language models (LLMs) like ChatGPT or Gemini within what philosophers, inspired by Michel Foucault, term the “digital truth regime.” After defining this regime, the essay identifies five key traits of LLMs: presentism in truth ...
Charles Corval
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The Minimum Age of Criminal Responsibility Internationally-History, Systems and the Future. [PDF]
Crim Behav Ment HealthDelmage E +18 more
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Extreme Overvalued Beliefs, and Determinations of Criminal Responsibility
This article critically examines the proposed use of the psychiatric distinction between delusions and extreme overvalued beliefs as a tool for distinguishing criminal insanity from (mere) violent extremism. The analysis contrasts this distinction with a
Radovic, Susanna,, Mathis, Stephen
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