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When Does Evidence Suffice for Conviction? [PDF]

, 2018
There is something puzzling about statistical evidence. One place this manifests is in the law, where courts are reluctant to base affirmative verdicts on evidence that is purely statistical, in spite of the fact that it is perfectly capable of meeting ...
Allensworth, Alston, Bernoulli, Blome-Tillmann, BonJour, Chisholm, Chisholm, Cohen, Conee, Dennis, Derksen, DeRose, Dretske, Elliott, Enoch, Enoch, Fumerton, Hawthorne, Ho, Kaye, Keane, Koehler, Laudan, Lewis, Lewis, Littlejohn, Loftus, Martin Smith, Nelkin, Nesson, Nozick, Pritchard, Pryor, Redmayne, Roth, Russell, Ryan, Saks, Semikhodskii, Simon, Simon, Smith, Smith, Smithies, Thomson, Tribe, Vogel, Williamson   +47 more
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How Are Australian Local Governments Responding to the Homelessness Crisis? Findings From a National Study

Australian Journal of Social Issues, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT Australian local governments are facing intensifying pressures to respond to worsening visible homelessness. This paper presents one of the first national studies on how local governments are responding to these pressures, and the first since the onset of the post‐pandemic housing crisis.
Andrew Clarke, Joelle Moore, Fatemeh Aminpour, Katya Eagles   +3 more
wiley   +1 more source

Taking the Evolution of the Standards of Proof for a Criminal Conviction Seriously

Quaestio Facti
The article offers a diachronic and comparative analysis of different standards of proof for a criminal conviction. The first part focuses on the attempt of medieval and early modern Roman-canon systems to clarify this type of rule through a network of ...
Jacopo Della Torre
doaj   +1 more source

Epistemology and legal regulation of proof [PDF]

Law, Probability and Risk, 2003
In the legal process, there are fewer ubiquitous cognitive problems than is often thought. Optimal fact-finding arrangements depend on a variety of factors, so that those intent on improving these arrangements face different problems in different procedural settings. In examining factors with a bearing on best fact-finding practices, the author focuses
openaire   +2 more sources

Chronological Diagnostic Algorithm Predicting Neuropathology in Parkinsonism

Annals of Neurology, EarlyView.
Objective Pre‐mortem diagnosis of parkinsonism is often challenging due to atypical presentations, overlapping syndromes, and co‐pathologies. This study aimed to develop a machine learning‐based algorithm predicting neuropathology in parkinsonism using chronological clinical presentations, which has previously been underexplored.
Daisuke Ono, Hiroaki Sekiya, Alexia R. Maier, Neill R. Graff‐Radford, Zbigniew K. Wszolek, Dennis W. Dickson   +5 more
wiley   +1 more source

Deterrence vs Judicial Error: a Comparative View of Standards of Proof [PDF]

We argue that the common law standard of proof, given the rules of evidence, does not minimize expected error as usually argued in the legal literature, but may well be efficient from the standpoint of providing maximal incentives for socially desirable ...
Claude Fluet, Dominique Demougin
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Opposing consensus science through scholarly practices: The role of claims maintenance

Journal of the Association for Information Science and Technology, EarlyView.
Abstract This study examines how three US‐based communities who oppose consensus science produce and disseminate scholarly‐like artifacts: pro‐life activists, Young Earth Creationists, and Anthropogenic Climate Crisis skeptics. Prior research shows that industry‐ or church‐backed advocacy campaigns often generate claims supported by these communities ...
Irene V. Pasquetto, Morgan Wofford, Claire Jordan, Andrea Thomer   +3 more
wiley   +1 more source

Interpretation of The Legal Values and Justice in The Living Law Related To Court Decision

Sociological Jurisprudence Journal, 2021
The performance of judges in deciding on a legal dispute that is faced is a work process looking for legal norms both in the legislation and legal norms that live in the community.
Ismail Rumadan
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Employment Discrimination and the Assumption of Equality [PDF]

, 1994
The assumption of equality undergirds the American law of employment discrimination. The assumption is that racial and sexual classes are equally qualified for jobs.
Gold, Michael Evan
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Putting the burden of proof in its place: When are differential allocations legitimate? [PDF]

, 2008
It is widely assumed that legitimate differential allocations of the burden of proof are ubiquitous: that in all cases in which opposing views are being debated, one side has the responsibility of proving their claim and if they fail, the opposing view ...
Dare, Tim, Kingsbury, Justine
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