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Criminal Justice: Criminal Courts
2013This entry on the adult court system in the United States discusses the foundation, structure, and authority of courts at federal, state, and local levels. The role of criminal courts, the nature of an adversarial justice system, the plea bargaining process, and the goals of sentencing are described.
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2003
Abstract Prosecutions for crime could be commenced by appeals of felony, arraignment upon the ‘mainour’ (where thieves were caught red-handed), indictments by a grand jury, or (in the case of misdemeanours only) by information. The indictment became the usual method in the case of felonies, and appeals came to be discouraged and even ...
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Abstract Prosecutions for crime could be commenced by appeals of felony, arraignment upon the ‘mainour’ (where thieves were caught red-handed), indictments by a grand jury, or (in the case of misdemeanours only) by information. The indictment became the usual method in the case of felonies, and appeals came to be discouraged and even ...
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Criminal Responsibility, Criminal Competence, and Prediction of Criminal Behavior
2013This chapter systematically addresses the current relevance of neuroscience to the doctrines of criminal responsibility and competence and the practice of predicting criminal conduct. It offers a framework for thinking about how neuroscientific information may be relevant to these doctrines and practices.
Morse, Stephen, Newsome, William T.
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2017
Utell treats marriage laws to read Joyce's scenes of what she calls "criminal conversation"—legally risky discursive interactions of married characters (not with their spouses). Her analysis assesses the legal implications of marital disquiet in the major Joyce texts and also in Giacomo Joyce and Exiles, arguing that these works are essential to ...
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Utell treats marriage laws to read Joyce's scenes of what she calls "criminal conversation"—legally risky discursive interactions of married characters (not with their spouses). Her analysis assesses the legal implications of marital disquiet in the major Joyce texts and also in Giacomo Joyce and Exiles, arguing that these works are essential to ...
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Criminal Propensity and Criminal Opportunity
2008Criminal profiling is an investigative tool that has attained unprecedented recognition despite a clear lack of empirical criminological evidence supporting its validity and assumptions. The ‘‘homology hypothesis’’ is one of these assumptions, and it postulates a direct relationship between crime scene characteristics and personal attributes of the ...
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Individual criminal responsibility
1998Il saggio tratta della responsabilità penale individuale nel progetto di Statuto della Corte Penale ...
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Criminality and criminal justice
Personality and Individual Differences, 1983openaire +1 more source