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Determinants of case outcomes in Rwanda's postgenocide gacaca courts
Criminology, EarlyView.Abstract Transitional justice trials have become a central mechanism for addressing mass violence and human rights violations, yet little is known about the determinants of case outcomes within these courts—particularly in domestic contexts. This study examines Rwanda's gacaca courts, a localized transitional justice system that tried people suspected ...
Hollie Nyseth Nzitatira +2 more
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Criminology &Public Policy, EarlyView.Abstract Research Summary How to optimize police officers’ accounts following a critical incident like an officer‐involved shooting has been debated in policy and scholarly literature. Although empirical research has begun to explore the impact of interview timing and viewing body‐worn camera (BWC) footage from the incident, no study has explored how ...
Louise E. Porter +4 more
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How sleep and fatigue shape statements in evidence: A psycho-legal perspective
Frontiers in CognitionTestimonial evidence in the form of verbal accounts by victims, witnesses, and suspects plays a critical role in investigations and judicial proceedings, often serving as the only evidence during a trial.
Zlatan Krizan, Breanna Curran
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Trauma, Testimony and Lower Secondary Holocaust Education in Rywka Lipszyc's and Otto Wolf's Diaries
Children &Society, EarlyView.ABSTRACT This article examines how Holocaust‐related trauma is represented in two diaries written by Jewish adolescents during the Second World War: Rywka Lipszyc's diary and Otto Wolf's diary. The article combines a thematically guided close reading of the diaries with a didactic discussion of their possible use in lower secondary literary education ...
Milan Mašát
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New Media and the Reconfiguration of the Television Sphere. The Media Construction of the Active Public [PDF]
Revista Română de Sociologie, 2010 The study analyzes the influence of new media on the television sphere, namely the way in which news and talk shows integrate the forums, text messages, images captured using the mobile phone, blogs, etc.
CAMELIA BECIU
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Judicial Understanding of the Reliability of Eyewitness Evidence: A Tale of Two Cases
Potchefstroom Electronic Law Journal, 2016 One of the most significant consequences of the use of post-conviction DNA testing in the criminal justice system has been the growing recognition that eyewitness identification testimony is simply not as reliable as it was previously considered to be ...
Lirieka Meintjes-van der Walt
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A validation of the two-high threshold eyewitness identification model by reanalyzing published data
Scientific Reports, 2022 The two-high threshold (2-HT) eyewitness identification model serves as a new measurement tool to measure the latent cognitive processes underlying eyewitness identification performance.
Nicola Marie Menne +3 more
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The Politics of Pointing: Lessing's Fingerzeig and the Limits of Figural Reading
The German Quarterly, EarlyView.Abstract Lessing's Fingerzeig—a “pointer” that guides without determining judgment—has often been treated as a stylistic habit rather than a hermeneutic principle. This essay reconstructs it as an ethics of interpretation, a gesture that orients without completing and leaves judgment to whoever follows.
Matthew Thomas Stoltz
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Eyewitness testimony: probative value in criminal justice system
Egyptian Journal of Forensic Sciences, 2019 This article reveals the problems and issues related to reliability of eyewitness testimony in the criminal justice system. The article also discusses various internal and external factors affecting the accuracy of eyewitness identification, such as ...
Biswa Prakash Nayak, Himanshu Khajuria
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Eyewitnesses and Healing Miracles in the Gospel of Mark
The Biblical Annals, 2020 This essay builds on my extensive argument elsewhere to the effect that the Gospels are closely based on eyewitness testimony. It focuses on the nine healing miracles in the Gospel of Mark. The intention is not to offer any kind of proof that the stories
Richard Bauckham
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