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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
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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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Behavioral Sciences &the Law, EarlyView.ABSTRACT Wrongful convictions continue to occur at high rates. Research has revealed that negative posttraumatic cognitive changes are a risk factor for the development and maintenance of posttraumatic stress disorder, yet little research has examined whether exonerees experience posttraumatic cognitive changes, such as changes to their worldview. Thus,
Kathryn A. Thomas +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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Beyond the Adversarial Rivalry: A Developmental Rights‐Based Model for Minor‐on‐Minor Crime, Part 1
Behavioral Sciences &the Law, EarlyView.ABSTRACT When children harm children, the conventional victim–perpetrator framework is ill‐equipped to address the developmental, relational, and institutional complexities involved. While juvenile justice scholarship increasingly emphasizes rehabilitation, and victims' rights literature has advanced child‐sensitive protection, minor‐on‐minor offending
Tali Gal, Ruthy Lowenstein Lazar
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Kilka uwag na tema t istoty błędu (rozważania na tle polskiego prawa karnego)
Acta Iuris Stetinensis, 2018 Error of the perpetrator plays an important role in Polish criminal law. That is because at times it contributes to accepting a particular legal qualification of the perpetrator’s behavior or a basis of the penalty for their particular behavior, which ...
Konrad Burdziak
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Wonder, Empire, Science: The Quagga and Other Extinctions on Display at Naturalis
Museum & Society, 2022 Naturalis, the Dutch national museum of natural history, celebrated its bicentennial in 2020 by launching the special exhibition, Nature’s Treasure Trove, featuring 25 ‘crown jewels’ from the collection – of which five are extinct.
Laura Bertens, Ann Marie Wilson
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Corporate Social Responsibility and Environmental Management, EarlyView.ABSTRACT Companies increasingly claim to adopt artificial intelligence (AI) not only for economic but also for ecological and social purposes. However, in light of rising greenwashing, bluewashing, and ethics washing, the impact of the communicated rationale on employees' initial attitude toward AI introduction remains unclear.
Marco Baumgartner +3 more
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Influence of the Cultural Defence on Conduct and Culpability in South African Criminal Law
LawsSouth African criminal law has no separate, distinct, or novel cultural defence. Such a defence could negate or mitigate an accused’s criminal liability for a culturally motivated crime.
Jacques Matthee
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