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Challenges to Lay Judges in Germany
International Journal of Comparative and Applied Criminal Justice, 1984Scepticism about the role of juries in the American judicial process has prompted consideration of alternative ways of involving lay persons in adjudication. One possibility is to incorporate into American courts a mixed tribunal of the type common to European judicial systems; in these tribunals, which have nearly displaced the traditional jury of the
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Opinions on the Lay Judge System
2016Perhaps the strongest criticism of the lay judge system is that, in the absence of major reforms in police and prosecutors’ powers, and of vigilant supervision of the way they are exercised, conscripted citizens become complicit in a system that is still too willing to convict based on coerced confessions.
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The Journal of Psychology, 2007
The authors examined Swedish judges', lay judges', and police officers' beliefs about factors that may complicate or facilitate children's reports of sexual abuse. Participants (N = 562) rated potential complicating and facilitating factors and freely reported which criteria they considered important when assessing the reliability of child witnesses ...
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The authors examined Swedish judges', lay judges', and police officers' beliefs about factors that may complicate or facilitate children's reports of sexual abuse. Participants (N = 562) rated potential complicating and facilitating factors and freely reported which criteria they considered important when assessing the reliability of child witnesses ...
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An Inside View: Professional Judges’ and Lay Judges’ Support for Mixed Tribunals
Law & Policy, 2003This paper studies the level of specific and general support for mixed tribunals, a form of lay participation in the government. The analyses focus on the opinions provided by 229 Croatian lay judges and eighty professional judges – the insiders in mixed tribunals.
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Lay Judges and Professionals in Danish Courts
2015In Denmark the law courts were only professionalized at the end of the eighteenth century. A long tradition of lay judges was then broken, and a new discussion as to the introduction of juries in Denmark was only started in the nineteenth century. In 1919 Danish court procedure rules were reformed and lay judges were introduced.
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The Function of the Lay Judge in Czechoslovakia
1976After the Communist Party assumed power in Czechoslovakia in 1948, the ruling ideologists believed sociology to have been absorbed in and replaced by Marxist-Leninism. Although sociology had a long tradition in Czechoslovakia, its revival occurred later there than in some other Soviet satellite countries.
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