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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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Evaluating Concerning Behavior of Fixated Individuals
Behavioral Sciences &the Law, EarlyView.ABSTRACT Fixated individuals who send repeated concerning communications to public figures pose a significant challenge, particularly when such communications escalate to approach or violence. The present study examined associations between three sources of threat assessment information—motivational type, structured professional judgment (CTAP‐25), and
Isabelle van der Vegt +2 more
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Oñati Socio-Legal Series, 2013 This article argues that current manifestations of criminalization of protest in contexts rich in natural resources can be inscribed in a wider economic context that contributes to the neutralization of political claims to land, natural resources and ...
María Carolina Olarte
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Criminal Behaviour and Mental Health, EarlyView.ABSTRACT Background Depression, anxiety and criminal behaviour are often correlated, but the direction and nature of these associations remain contested. Aims To investigate the temporal relationships between depression and/or anxiety and criminal behaviour at age 32 and depression and/or anxiety and criminal behaviour at age 48.
Kim Reising, Maria M. Ttofi
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Criminal Behaviour and Mental Health, EarlyView.ABSTRACT Background Mental health courts divert individuals with serious mental illness away from imprisonment into community‐based treatment and supervision. Early research indicates that such treatment contracts can reduce recidivism and provide various other benefits. Aspects of eligibility for this diversion option are still under‐researched.
Steven Keener, Audrey Morrison
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Criminal Behaviour and Mental Health, EarlyView.ABSTRACT Background Adolescents involved in the juvenile justice system have high rates of psychiatric disorder and social vulnerability. Those in custodial or semi‐custodial detention may be particularly vulnerable to psychiatric emergencies, but the clinical factors associated with these crises remain insufficiently understood.
Maria Carolina Lobato Machado +7 more
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The Governance Gap: Democratizing Drug Development Through Decision Architecture
Clinical Pharmacology &Therapeutics, EarlyView.Drug development is most exposed to governance failure where it can least afford it, in global health. The field has more predictive power than at any point in its history and roughly the same failure rate it had a decade ago. We argue that this paradox persists because the field has invested heavily in prediction science while neglecting decision ...
Craig R. Rayner +16 more
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Research investigating girls’ delinquency and offending has tended to focus on samples of convicted, and often incarcerated, girls. Consequently, while increasing understanding of justice system-involved young women’s backgrounds and life experiences ...
Sharpe, G.
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Ethical Behaviour and Corporate Financing. The Case of ‘Legality Rating’
Corporate Social Responsibility and Environmental Management, EarlyView.ABSTRACT The financial crisis has heightened awareness of ethical and legal issues in the business context. Corporate ethical behaviour is increasingly measured through sustainability ratings. Since 2012, in Italy, the introduction of a sustainability rating, namely the legality rating (LR), has served as an innovative ‘label’ for socially responsible ...
Federica Doni +3 more
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