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Behavioral Sciences &the Law, EarlyView.ABSTRACT As correctional jurisdictions and risk instrument developers look to optimize scoring for specific population needs, an open question remains ‐ which method is optimal. Popular scoring methods range from manual simple scoring approaches (e.g., Burgess) to more complex machine learning algorithms (e.g., random forests).
Danielle J. Rieger +2 more
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Towards effective practice in offender supervision [PDF]
, 2009 This paper has been prepared principally for the Performance Improvement Strategy Group - a group convened by the Community Justice Division of the Scottish Government to advise and assist in the development of criminal justice social work services in ...
McNeill, Fergus +1 more
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Behavioral Sciences &the Law, EarlyView.ABSTRACT Despite growing public knowledge of false confession cases, research with students and community members continues to find that people assume confessions indicate guilt. The present research explored the implications of belief perseverance: the tendency to maintain a belief even when confronted with compelling contradictory evidence.
Taya D. Henry +2 more
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Editorial: Evidence-based frameworks of assessment and treatment in forensic psychiatry practice
Frontiers in Psychiatry, 2023 Yasin Hasan Balcioglu +4 more
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Towards a Developmental Retribution and Reciprocity Model (RRM): Implications for Youth Justice
Behavioral Sciences &the Law, EarlyView.ABSTRACT Youth justice systems are frequently justified by reference to developmental change, yet chronological age is often treated as a proxy for underlying psychological processes. This paper develops a Developmental Retribution and Reciprocity Model (RRM), integrating evolutionary criminology with contemporary developmental neuroscience to clarify ...
Evelyn Svingen
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Behavioral Sciences &the Law, EarlyView.ABSTRACT Intellectual disability (ID) equivalence describes conditions in which individuals function cognitively and adaptively at levels comparable to ID without meeting IQ‐based diagnostic criteria. Fetal alcohol spectrum disorder (FASD) is characterised by impaired executive and adaptive functioning despite IQs often above the ID threshold ...
David J. Gilbert +7 more
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Crime and its members in social attitudes of students [PDF]
Психологическая наука и образование (2007. Online), 2013 We describe a study conducted in the framework of a structural approach based on the ideas of social representations of S. Moskovici. His goal was to reveal the characteristics of representations of crime, criminals and victims in young students, as well
I.B. Bovina, B.G. Bovin
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Alaska Offender Profile: Adult Probation/Parole, 2002–2012 [PDF]
, 2013 This fact sheet presents data on characteristics of offenders under the supervision of the Alaska Department of Corrections, Division of Probation and Parole (DOC-PP) for the period 2002–2012, and briefly describes how probation and parole operate in ...
Myrstol, Brad A.
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Behavioral Sciences &the Law, EarlyView.ABSTRACT This article considers how victim‐blaming and stereotypical attitudes about appropriate victim behaviour can impact upon the operation of rape trials, particularly by prejudicing a complainant's testimony where s/he can be portrayed as having departed from the stereotypical norm of a ‘real victim’.
Susan Leahy
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