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No More Laissez Faire? Expert Evidence, Rule Changes and Reliability: Can More Effective Training for the Bar and Judiciary Prevent Miscarriages of Justice? [PDF]
, 2016 The apparent link between miscarriages of justice in prosecutions involving expert evidence and the level of training provided to the legal profession (the Bar in particular) and the judiciary in respect of such evidence was highlighted in 2005 with the ...
Davies, Gemma, Piasecki, Emma
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Public Perceptions of Marital Rape: Does Level of Force Used Have an Impact?
Behavioral Sciences &the Law, EarlyView.ABSTRACT Research indicates that marital rape is viewed by the public as less harmful to a victim than stranger/acquaintance rape. The aim of the study is to extend the research conducted by Robinson in 2017, investigating how levels of force influence perceptions of marital rape.
Leanne Hanney, Amy Shelford, Andy Guppy
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Body Language: Reading the Corpse in Forensic Crime Fiction . [PDF]
, 2006 Our purpose in this article is to explore the fascination, over the last decade, with crime narratives that centre on the figure of the forensic pathologist.
Horsley, Katharine, Horsley, Lee
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Behavioral Sciences &the Law, EarlyView.ABSTRACT With the rise of digital technology, adolescent cyberviolence has become a growing global concern in public health and criminal justice. This study used nationally representative data from South Korea (2017–2024) to examine the prevalence of eight types of cyberviolence (i.e., verbal abuse, defamation, stalking, sexual abuse, personal ...
Heng Choon (Oliver) Chan +2 more
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A study on the false positive rate of Stegdetect [PDF]
, 2013 In this paper we analyse Stegdetect, one of the well-known image steganalysis tools, to study its false positive rate. In doing so, we process more than 40,000 images randomly downloaded from the Internet using Google images, together with 25,000 images ...
Benjamin Aziz +13 more
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Behavioral Sciences &the Law, EarlyView.ABSTRACT This study examined how male rape myths, racial/ethnicity biases, and sexuality stereotypes influence verdicts in male‐on‐male rape trials—an area that is currently under‐researched. A sample of 463 participants read a mock rape trial, where both the defendant and complainant were male, with defendant ethnicity (White, Black, Asian) and ...
Lee J. Curley +3 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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Behavioral Sciences &the Law, EarlyView.ABSTRACT As correctional jurisdictions and risk instrument developers look to optimize scoring for specific population needs, an open question remains ‐ which method is optimal. Popular scoring methods range from manual simple scoring approaches (e.g., Burgess) to more complex machine learning algorithms (e.g., random forests).
Danielle J. Rieger +2 more
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Ученые записки Российской академии предпринимательства, 2021 The article analyzes the current state of the forensic expert economic trends and identified the preconditions necessary for the formulation of the theoretical foundations of financial analysis expert studies.
D. A. Suslov
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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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