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Legal Professionals Use an Implicit Checklist to Assess Expert Witness Credibility
Behavioral Sciences &the Law, EarlyView.ABSTRACT In a court of law, some forms of evidence are too technical to interpret without the help of an expert witness. However, expert testimony sometimes leads to wrongful conviction. We used an online survey to quantitatively compare how legal professionals (n = 122) and lay people (n = 109) understood what makes an expert witness credible.
Mahensingh Deonaran +2 more
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Evaluating Concerning Behavior of Fixated Individuals
Behavioral Sciences &the Law, EarlyView.ABSTRACT Fixated individuals who send repeated concerning communications to public figures pose a significant challenge, particularly when such communications escalate to approach or violence. The present study examined associations between three sources of threat assessment information—motivational type, structured professional judgment (CTAP‐25), and
Isabelle van der Vegt +2 more
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Behavioral Sciences &the Law, EarlyView.ABSTRACT Disproportionate rates of sexual violence occur among university students, with rape culture and misconceptions about consent prevalent. To comprehensively examine rape myth beliefs among different student groups, 417 UK University students enrolled on courses in four distinct disciplinary areas; social sciences (n = 131), applied sciences (n =
Dominic Willmott +6 more
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Criminal Behaviour and Mental Health, EarlyView.ABSTRACT Background Depression, anxiety and criminal behaviour are often correlated, but the direction and nature of these associations remain contested. Aims To investigate the temporal relationships between depression and/or anxiety and criminal behaviour at age 32 and depression and/or anxiety and criminal behaviour at age 48.
Kim Reising, Maria M. Ttofi
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Criminal Behaviour and Mental Health, EarlyView.ABSTRACT Background Mental health courts divert individuals with serious mental illness away from imprisonment into community‐based treatment and supervision. Early research indicates that such treatment contracts can reduce recidivism and provide various other benefits. Aspects of eligibility for this diversion option are still under‐researched.
Steven Keener, Audrey Morrison
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Dilemas: Revista de Estudos de Conflito e Controle Social, 2019 The paper analyzes the management of human trafficking within the Brazilian Federal Police. To understand how the police defines the criminal type while denying the victimization discourse, the article suggests a strategic distinction be drawn between ...
Laura Lowenkron
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Criminal Behaviour and Mental Health, EarlyView.ABSTRACT Background Adolescents involved in the juvenile justice system have high rates of psychiatric disorder and social vulnerability. Those in custodial or semi‐custodial detention may be particularly vulnerable to psychiatric emergencies, but the clinical factors associated with these crises remain insufficiently understood.
Maria Carolina Lobato Machado +7 more
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Work as a crime, a resource and a relationship: the confiscation of wages as proceeds of crime. [PDF]
Crime Law Soc ChangeNiezna M.
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The money laundering market: An economic analysis. [PDF]
Proc Natl Acad Sci U S AFerwerda J.
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Honduras elites and organized crime
, 2016 This detailed study traces connections between wealthy and political elites in Honduras, and organized crime. For Honduran transnational elites, the state’s role is simple: to create and enforce rules that favour their continued power over key industries
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