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Police overestimation of criminal career homogeneity [PDF]

open access: yes, 2013
Police presumptions about criminal career trajectories have been little studied. The exploratory study reported here involved 42 police staff of varying rank and experience.
Bar-Hillel   +41 more
core   +1 more source

Two Views of Invalid Response Set and Malingering Attributions in Forensic Assessment: Credibility and Non‐Credibility

open access: yesBehavioral Sciences &the Law, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT This article reviews two major sets of six articles on malingering and invalid response set, which have diametrically opposite conclusions on the value of performance and symptom validity tests (PVTs and SVTs) in forensic and related disability assessments (FDRA). First, we review the six‐article series by the Leonhards, which takes the stance
Gerald Young   +2 more
wiley   +1 more source

An Assessment of Tonry and Farrington?s Four Major Crime Prevention Strategies as Applied to Environmental Crime and Harm [PDF]

open access: yes, 2015
To apply the findings and debates arising from the “mainstream ” literature on crime prevention to the increasingly urgent issue of crimes and harms that damage the environment.
Brisman, A, South, N
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Generative Artificial Intelligence in Violence Risk Assessment: Emerging Technology and the Ethics of the Inevitable

open access: yesBehavioral Sciences &the Law, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT Recent developments in artificial intelligence (AI) have stimulated considerable excitement and discussion regarding the potential impacts on people's lives and work. In particular, proposed and realized applications of generative AI have appeared across multiple industries and domains, including at the intersection of behavioral science and ...
Neil R. Hogan, Gabriela Corăbian
wiley   +1 more source

Admissibility of Prior Sexual History Evidence: Examining Its Impact on Mock‐Jurors’ Judgments When Gender and Race Are Considered

open access: yesBehavioral Sciences &the Law, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT Rape shield laws restrict the admission of prior sexual history evidence (PSHE) in sexual assault trials in various countries, including Canada and the U.S. Despite such laws, admission of PSHE is often at the discretion of a trial judge. The current study examined the effect of PSHE (present, absent), victim and defendant gender (male, female)
Bailey M. Fraser   +2 more
wiley   +1 more source

Media justice: Madeleine McCann, intermediatization and "trial by media" in the British press [PDF]

open access: yes, 2012
Three-year-old Madeleine McCann disappeared on 3 May 2007 from a holiday apartment in Portugal. Over five years and multiple investigations that failed to solve this abducted child case, Madeleine and her parents were subject to a process of relentless ...
Alexander JC   +28 more
core   +1 more source

Decoding Disbelief: Using Natural Language Processing's Sentiment Analysis to Assess 24 Years of Unfounded Rape Reports Narratives

open access: yesBehavioral Sciences &the Law, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT Rape myths, including the belief that victims frequently lie, contribute to barriers in justice, such as the disproportionate use of the “unfounded” classification—where, following an investigation, it is determined no crime occurred. This study analyzes rape report narratives tied to previously untested sexual assault kits (N = 5638) from a ...
Rachel E. Lovell   +2 more
wiley   +1 more source

Human Experts and AI Models in Offender Risk Assessment: A Comparative Pilot Study Using the HCR‐20V3

open access: yesBehavioral Sciences &the Law, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT This pilot study compares offender risk assessments conducted by human experts and advanced large language models (LLMs) within the HCR‐20V3 framework. Both groups evaluated a series of synthetic forensic case vignettes designed to simulate realistic clinical conditions. Quantitative results indicate that AI models consistently assigned higher
Shai Farber
wiley   +1 more source

Cultural Criminology: The Time is Now [PDF]

open access: yes, 2019
Cultural criminology understandscrime and its control asproductsofmeaning. It exploressimultaneously the macro-, meso-and micro-levels of social life, sensitive tothe operation of power, in order to produce critical analyses that are politically potent ...
Ilan, J.
core   +1 more source

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