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The role of defendant race, expert testimony and interrogation coerciveness on Canadian mock jurors' perceptions of recanted confessions

Legal and Criminological Psychology, Volume 31, Issue 2, Page 376-398, September 2026.
Abstract Purpose In some contexts, US‐based White jurors appear to exhibit a heightened focus on legally relevant information when the defendant is Black as compared to White. The current study tested this ‘watchdog’ effect in the Canadian context by examining mock jurors' decisions using a trial involving a recanted confession with an Indigenous or a ...
Logan Ewanation, Evelyn M. Maeder
wiley   +1 more source

“I Wish I Had Better Answers”: Organizational Ignorance in US Criminal Courts

Sociological Forum, Volume 41, Issue 3, Page 396-411, September 2026.
ABSTRACT Systems of monetary sanctions in US criminal courts present an opportunity for furthering the sociological understanding of complex and consequential organizations. We examine whether and how court actors across eight states understand the organizational processes supporting the fiscal logic of legal financial obligations (LFOs).
Sarah K. S. Shannon, Gabriela Kirk‐Werner, Beth Huebner, Lacey Byram Moore   +3 more
wiley   +1 more source

Agreement about intervention plans by probation officers

, 2013
Contains fulltext : 116651.pdf (Publisher’s version ) (Closed access)Introducing instruments to structure risk assessment has been shown to improve agreement between probation professionals about the assessment of offenders' risks and ...
Bosker, Jacqueline, Bosker, J.M.H., Hermanns, J.M.A., Hermanns, J., Witteman, C.L.M., Witteman, C., Bosker, J.   +6 more
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Training to see risk: Measuring the accuracy of clinical and actuarial risk assessments among federal probation officers

, 2011
The study found that the Federal probation officers made more consistent and accurate assessments of offender risk when using the PCRA than when using unstructured clinical judgment.
Oleson, James, Robinson, CR, Lowenkamp, CT, Van Benschoten, SW   +3 more
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Building a therapeutic relationship between probation officers and probationers with serious mental illnesses. [PDF]

CNS Spectr, 2020
Epperson MW, Sawh L, Sarantakos SP.
europepmc   +1 more source

The probation officer. [PDF]

BMJ, 1971
openaire   +1 more source

The impact of a brief RNR-based training on Turkish juvenile probation officers' punitive and rehabilitative attitudes and recidivism risk perceptions. [PDF]

J Community Psychol, 2020
Tuncer AE, Erdem G, de Ruiter C.
europepmc   +1 more source

Capacity of juvenile probation officers in low-resourced, rural settings to deliver an evidence-based substance use intervention to adolescents. [PDF]

Psychol Addict Behav, 2020
Sheidow AJ, McCart MR, Chapman JE, Drazdowski TK.   +3 more
europepmc   +1 more source

Reporting to the court [PDF]

This thesis is concerned with social inquiry and/or pre-sentence reports in criminal cases. These reports are compiled by probation officers, at the request of the court, to assist the court in reaching an appropriate sentencing decision in some ...
Pavlovic, Anita
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The Client Network Audit: Assessing Shared Knowledge of a Client's Social Network Among Juvenile Probation Officers. [PDF]

Behav Sci (Basel)
Young JTN.
europepmc   +1 more source