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Five Decades of Research on Rape Myths and Victim Interpretation
Behavioral Sciences &the Law, EarlyView.ABSTRACT Over the past 5 decades of social science research, scholars have examined false narratives and beliefs associated with rape and sexual assault (often called “rape myths”). This scoping review employs an innovative technique to sample and describe a large cohort of scholarly articles that investigate sexual assault victim interpretation and ...
Elizabeth Trudeau, Ruth Carmi
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Revista da Faculdade de Direito da Universidade Federal de Minas Gerais, 2013 O objetivo do artigo é destacar a importância do Direito Internacional Penal na atual conjuntura da sociedade internacional. Para desenvolver tal pensamento, buscou-se como ponto de partida diferenciar a confusão muito comum entre o Direito ...
Alexandre Pereira da Silva
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How to prove a role of Customary International Criminal Law: Re-imaging a Definition of CIL
, 2014 In Chapter One, I intend to examine the development of CIL and delimit the parameters of the traditional doctrine. In doing so, I hope to highlight the difficulties in its application in the area of international criminal law.
Cockburn, Kirsten
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Applying the Rules of Evidence to Expert Testimony About Risk
Behavioral Sciences &the Law, EarlyView.ABSTRACT Expert opinion about dangerousness or risk is common at sentencing, criminal commitment proceedings and some types of pretrial detention hearings. This article argues that such evidence must be (1) “material” (logically relevant, empirically generalizable, and epistemologically germane), (2) “probative” (a measure of accuracy, which is ...
Christopher Slobogin
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Towards corporate liability in international criminal law
, 2010 Please note that the electronic publication of this dissertation through Igitur is subject to a 2-year embargo period! Seeking to address the problem of corporate involvement in genocide, crimes against humanity and war crimes, this study explores the ...
UU LEG LAW Landelijke Onderzoekschool Rechten van de Mens +3 more
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Behavioral Sciences &the Law, EarlyView.ABSTRACT Wrongful convictions continue to occur at high rates. Research has revealed that negative posttraumatic cognitive changes are a risk factor for the development and maintenance of posttraumatic stress disorder, yet little research has examined whether exonerees experience posttraumatic cognitive changes, such as changes to their worldview. Thus,
Kathryn A. Thomas +3 more
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Criminal Responsibility of Individuals for Committing International Crimes
Московский журнал международного права, 2008 The article examines the development of the international criminal responsibility of individuals before and after the Second World War. Attention is paid to the Nuremberg’s principles for international humanitarian law.
J. V. Grigorovich
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The right to a fair trial under Saudi Law of Criminal Procedure: a human rights critique [PDF]
, 2013 This thesis was submitted for the degree of Doctor of Philosophy and awarded by Brunel UniversityThis study examines the compatibility of the Law of Criminal Procedure of 2001 in Saudi Arabia with the international human rights standards, and provides ...
Al-Subaie, Salman Muhammed
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Defining Reconciliation Studies: Theoretical and Practical Dimensions
Conflict 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
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The Right of an Accused to a Fair Trial: The Independence of the Impartiality of the International Criminal Courts [PDF]
, 2013 It is a sacrosanct principle of the due process of law that the right of the accused to a fair trial should be observed. A condition precedent to that requirement is that he should be tried by an independent and impartial tribunal. Whilst the concepts of
Sivasubramaniam, Bahma
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