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Legal Professionals Use an Implicit Checklist to Assess Expert Witness Credibility
Behavioral Sciences &the Law, EarlyView.ABSTRACT In a court of law, some forms of evidence are too technical to interpret without the help of an expert witness. However, expert testimony sometimes leads to wrongful conviction. We used an online survey to quantitatively compare how legal professionals (n = 122) and lay people (n = 109) understood what makes an expert witness credible.
Mahensingh Deonaran +2 more
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Reconsidering the Admissibility of Expert Forensic Evidence in South African Criminal Proceedings
Potchefstroom Electronic Law JournalExpert forensic evidence can be of great assistance in criminal proceedings. However, the question that must be answered is whether and to what extent there is science in any forensic science discipline.
Chevaure Du Pokoy
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Peculiarities of Ordering and Conducting Forensic Accounting Expertise
Учёт. Анализ. Аудит, 2018 The subject of the research is the process of ordering and conducting forensic accounting expertise taking into account the necessity of scientific basis for classification of forensic accounting expertise types.
A. N. Kizilov, O. V. Ovcharenko
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Evaluating Concerning Behavior of Fixated Individuals
Behavioral Sciences &the Law, EarlyView.ABSTRACT Fixated individuals who send repeated concerning communications to public figures pose a significant challenge, particularly when such communications escalate to approach or violence. The present study examined associations between three sources of threat assessment information—motivational type, structured professional judgment (CTAP‐25), and
Isabelle van der Vegt +2 more
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Forensic Services Strategy 2016 - 2019
, 2016 Forensic services play a very important part in the criminal justice system through the provision of objective and impartial scientific analysis.This strategy is concerned with maximising the contribution of forensic services to the operation of the ...
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Behavioral Sciences &the Law, EarlyView.ABSTRACT Disproportionate rates of sexual violence occur among university students, with rape culture and misconceptions about consent prevalent. To comprehensively examine rape myth beliefs among different student groups, 417 UK University students enrolled on courses in four distinct disciplinary areas; social sciences (n = 131), applied sciences (n =
Dominic Willmott +6 more
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Investigation of Internal Tensions of Wives of Men Who Addicted to Heroin
Bihdād, 2013 Background: Addiction is one of the social bad phenomenon and because of family is the most vulnerable of social institution against to the adverse effects of addiction and due to head of family with drug addicts cannot perform his role as husband and ...
S. Mahdizadeh +2 more
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Forensic and Expert Social Anthropology
Open Anthropological Research, 2022 Abstract Social anthropologists have acted as expert witnesses in legal proceedings for many decades, however there has persisted a tension between social anthropologists’ readiness to accept the assignation of ‘expertise’, and the typical manner in which courts and legally empowered bodies characterise such expertise as the forensic ...
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Wisconsin attorneys in selection of vocational expert witnesses [PDF]
, 1999 Plan BThe purpose of this descriptive study is to rank order the vocational characteristic competencies, as perceived by Wisconsin attorneys that specialized in Workers’ Compensation cases, when selecting a vocational expert.
Ong, Lee Za
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The Age of Questions: Truth Regimes and Subjectivity in the Era of Large Language Models
Behavioral Sciences &the Law, EarlyView.ABSTRACT This essay explores how digital technologies shape subjectivity's infra‐political constitution, focusing on large language models (LLMs) like ChatGPT or Gemini within what philosophers, inspired by Michel Foucault, term the “digital truth regime.” After defining this regime, the essay identifies five key traits of LLMs: presentism in truth ...
Charles Corval
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