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Behavioral Sciences &the Law, EarlyView.ABSTRACT Despite growing public knowledge of false confession cases, research with students and community members continues to find that people assume confessions indicate guilt. The present research explored the implications of belief perseverance: the tendency to maintain a belief even when confronted with compelling contradictory evidence.
Taya D. Henry +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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Juvenile prison sentence: Law, theory and practice in Serbia [PDF]
Zbornik Radova Pravnog Fakulteta u Nišu, 2018 The system of criminal sanction imposed by competent courts on juvenile criminal offenders comprises: 1) educational measures, 2) security measures, and 3) juvenile prison sentence.
Jovašević Dragan
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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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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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The Minimum Age of Criminal Responsibility Internationally—History, Systems and the Future
Criminal Behaviour and Mental Health, EarlyView.ABSTRACT Background In most countries, a criminal conviction requires evidence that the individual committed the act and that they had the mental capacity to understand what they were doing and that it was wrong. Youth, as an indicator of brain development, is one factor affecting criminal capacity.
Enys Delmage +18 more
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Informed consent and the transmission of sexual disease: Dadson Revivified [PDF]
, 2007 This article examines the impact of the decisions in R v Dica (2004) and R v Konzani (2005) on the extent of the defence of consent. As well as analysing the impact of the decisions on the extent of the defence where a defendant faces criminal liability ...
Cooper, S, Reed, A
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Market Perceptions of ESG Reputational Risk in the US Pharmaceutical Industry
Corporate Social Responsibility and Environmental Management, EarlyView.ABSTRACT Negative ESG‐related reputational events generate significant corporate risks, particularly within sensitive sectors such as the pharmaceutical industry. Using novel reputational data, this research investigates investor perceptions of the consequences of experienced ESG breaches among US pharmaceutical firms.
Erdinc Akyildirim +3 more
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, 2012 Every year 9000 children are estimated to die in traffic accidents in China. Fast motorization of the country in combination with low usage of child restraint system’s (CRS’s), are the two contributing factors to this alarming number.
Buell, Samuel W., Griffin, Lisa Kern
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Frontiers in Psychology, 2019 Aim of the StudyThe study examines how neurobiological and genetic explanations of psychopathy influence decision-making of German law students about legal and moral responsibility and sentencing of a defendant in a case of manslaughter. Previous studies
Daniela Guillen Gonzalez +3 more
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