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Beyond the Adversarial Rivalry: A Developmental Rights‐Based Model for Minor‐on‐Minor Crime, Part 2

open access: yesBehavioral 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 protections, minor‐on‐minor ...
Tali Gal, Ruthy Lowenstein Lazar
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Decision Theory and Proof Standards for Future Crimes: Possible Uses and Open Questions

open access: yesBehavioral Sciences &the Law, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT What should be the proof standard for applying preventive criminal sanctions based on an establishment of risk of reoffending? This is an open question in legal systems around the world. Various authors suggest that we can answer it by using decision theory. This approach conceptualises the proof standard as a probabilistic threshold. A person
Hylke Jellema, Johannes Bijlsma
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Depression, Anxiety and Criminal Behaviour Between Ages 32 and 48: A Propensity Score Matching Analysis From the Cambridge Study in Delinquent Development

open access: yesCriminal 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
wiley   +1 more source

Defining Reconciliation Studies: Theoretical and Practical Dimensions

open access: yesConflict Resolution Quarterly, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT Reconciliation studies (RS) has become increasingly influential in understanding alternative views to ending conflict and dealing with the aftermath. As a discipline or field, however, it is not well defined. The actual usefulness of reconciliation (as a concept), or of RS (as a discipline), is debated, and due to its growing usage, it is ...
Colleen Alena O’Brien
wiley   +1 more source

From Custom to Court: The Evolution of Mediation in European Legal Systems

open access: yesConflict Resolution Quarterly, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT This article traces how European mediation has repeatedly rebalanced three variables—(1) the source of mediator authority, (2) the degree of institutionalization, and (3) the operative meaning of voluntariness—from antiquity to the present. Using three periods—Proto‐Mediation (c. 500 BCE–c. 1750), Classical Mediation (c.
Viktoriia Hamaiunova
wiley   +1 more source

Calibrated Autonomy: China's 2026 Business Mediation Ordinance and the Reconfiguration of Dispute Resolution

open access: yesConflict Resolution Quarterly, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT This article argues that China's 2026 Business Mediation Ordinance represents neither progress toward rule of law nor retreat from it. I propose instead that we are witnessing something I call “calibrated autonomy”—the strategic construction of spaces for private ordering that remain tethered to Party‐State oversight through multiple ...
M. Francis Cao
wiley   +1 more source

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