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Australian Journal of Social Issues, EarlyView.ABSTRACT While research has identified a disconnect between the minimum age of criminal responsibility (MACR) and public perceptions of criminal culpability among young people, no study has examined how offender characteristics influence support for reform using an experimental design. To address this, this study presents the first experimental test of
Cameron T. Langfield +3 more
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Child Sexual Abuse Attributions: Are They Different Depending on Mothers versus Fathers’ Reactions?
Anuario de Psicología JurídicaFamily reactions to child sexual abuse (CSA) are important, but there is a lack of research on the effect of maternal and paternal reactions on social attributions towards the victim and perpetrator.
Eunice Magalhães +6 more
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‘Where are the adults?’: Troubling child‐activism and children's political participation
British Educational Research Journal, EarlyView.Abstract Children's political participation is a well‐established theme in childhood studies. In this article we offer an original account of child activism that takes into account the entangled and emergent aspect of children as activists. We begin with a historical and a conceptual review, noting the importance of mid‐20th century developments such ...
Sharon Hunter, Claire Cassidy
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The Idea of Fault, Wrongfulness and Liability in Private Law
Law: Journal of the University of Latvia, 2022 The article contains analysis of several aspects of civil liability and the criteria of its application, by providing a point of view to such complicated concepts as defining fault and wrongful act and finding them in actions of persons.
Jānis Kārkliņš
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Behavioral Sciences &the Law, EarlyView.ABSTRACT This study examined the effectiveness of a brief educational intervention designed to reduce sex trafficking (ST) myth acceptance. Using a 2 × 2 mixed design, participants (N = 189) viewed either an educational video addressing common ST myths or a control video on human memory.
Dara Mojtahedi +2 more
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Social SciencesThis study examined whether public opinion on drug addiction, perceived culpability/responsibility, and punishment were impacted by statements from medical associations that drug addiction is a disease and not a choice.
Pete Leasure, Hunter M. Boehme
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Pinkerton Short-Circuits the Model Penal Code [PDF]
, 2019 I show that the Pinkerton rule in conspiracy law is doctrinally and morally flawed. Unlike past critics of the rule, I propose a statutory fix that preserves and reforms it rather than abolishing it entirely.
Ingram, Andrew
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Behavioral Sciences &the Law, EarlyView.ABSTRACT This study examined how male rape myths, racial/ethnicity biases, and sexuality stereotypes influence verdicts in male‐on‐male rape trials—an area that is currently under‐researched. A sample of 463 participants read a mock rape trial, where both the defendant and complainant were male, with defendant ethnicity (White, Black, Asian) and ...
Lee J. Curley +3 more
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La objeción de conciencia como eximente de la responsabilidad penal en colombia
Nuevo Foro Penal, 2018 Conscientious objection is one of the most studied topics in the foreign constitutional literature in recent years, which, however, in our environment is almost nonexistent.
Ricardo Posada
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From Neuroscience to Law: Bridging the Gap
Frontiers in Psychology, 2020 Since our moral and legal judgments are focused on our decisions and actions, one would expect information about the neural underpinnings of human decision-making and action-production to have a significant bearing on those judgments.
Tuomas K. Pernu +2 more
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