The Clinical Assessment in the Legal Field: An Empirical Study of Bias and Limitations in Forensic Expertise. [PDF]
Front Psychol, 2015 According to the literature, psychological assessment in forensic contexts is one of the most controversial application areas for clinical psychology. This paper presents a review of systematic judgment errors in the forensic field.
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ON JUDGE’S TRIAL DISCOURSE IN CHINESE COURTROOM FROM GOAL-DRIVEN PERSPECTIVE
Comparative Legilinguistics, 2019 Any act has certain goal, and the judge’s trial discourse is a structured and layered goal system. Judges normally adopt some discourse strategies to reach their trial goals.
Qing ZHANG
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The voice is the message: Emotional practices and court rhetoric in early twentieth century Germany [PDF]
, 2018 This paper illustrates that emotions were considered a central component of juristic work in German legal thought around 1900, showing how emotional practices of judges were reshaped when they were confronted with new socio-political demands in the early
Schnädelbach, S.
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Sub-regional courts and the recusal issue: Emergent practice of the East African Court of Justice [PDF]
, 2012 Copyright @ 2012 African Society of International and Comparative Law / Edinburgh University Press.No abstract ...
Olowofoyeku, AA
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The Bedouin Judge, the Mufti, and the Chief Islamic Justice: Competing Legal Regimes in the Occupied Palestinian Territories [PDF]
, 2009 This article examines competing legal frameworks in dispute resolutionin the occupied territories, against the background of weakening central authority, bitter political rivalries, and increasing insecurity on the ground.
Welchman, Lynn
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"The mad", "the bad", "the victim":gendered constructions of women who kill within the criminal justice system [PDF]
, 2013 Women commit significantly fewer murders than men and are perceived to be less violent. This belief about women’s non-violence reflects the discourses surrounding gender, all of which assume that women possess certain inherent essential characteristics ...
Weare, Siobhan
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“A Right Judgment”: Rape Trial Conventions Revisited in Joseph Andrews and Tom Jones [PDF]
, 2016 This article argues that in both Joseph Andrews (1742) and Tom Jones (1749), Henry Fielding, who practiced law and wrote novels when both were undergoing significant transformations, takes what could have been archetypal scenes of rape and rescue and ...
Bloom Bissonette, Melissa
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“We’re not in a club now”: a neo-Brown and Levinson approach to analyzing courtroom data [PDF]
, 2018 Discursive approaches to analyzing politeness often eschew Brown and Levinson's theory of politeness as being too dependent on speech act theory and Gricean pragmatics.
Grainger, Karen
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Judicial Independence and Democratic Accountability in Highest State Courts [PDF]
, 1998 Carrington notes that because judges in trial and intermediate courts are accountable to highest courts, it is the latter that are responsible for keeping the faith with democratic ...
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The Court of Appeals as the Middle Child [PDF]
, 2016 It’s said that middle children are most likely to be forgotten in the chaos of family life. The same could be said of the U.S. Courts of Appeals, which in 2016, mark their 125th anniversary, and which are the middle child of the federal judicial family ...
Lohier, Raymond
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