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Do Prosecutor Elections Impact Prosecutor Decision Making? An Analysis of Florida Prosecutors

open access: yesJournal of Criminology, Criminal Justice, Law & Society
In the United States, the vast majority of chief prosecutors are elected, and existing literature demonstrates that electoral pressure impacts the decisions that candidates make (e.g., Brace & Hall, 1997; Cox & McCubbins, 1993; Mayhew, 1974).
openaire   +1 more source

Can You Be a Good Person and a Good Prosecutor? [PDF]

open access: yes, 2001
Somehow, it is understood that prosecutors have the high ground. Most people simply assume that prosecutors are the good guys, wear the white hats, and are on the right side.
Smith, Abbe
core   +1 more source

Crime, Gender and Policing: The Role of Women Officers in Addressing Gender‐Based Violence in India

open access: yesSystems Research and Behavioral Science, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT This study examines whether an increased presence of women in Indian police forces results in enhanced justice for victims of gender‐based crimes and improves the overall effectiveness and responsiveness of the police. It employs focus group discussions and qualitative system dynamics modelling to examine the dynamics of women in law ...
Kandaswamy Paramasivan   +3 more
wiley   +1 more source

The Interactional Pathways of Mass Killings: Toward a Novel Understanding of Rampage School Shootings

open access: yesSymbolic Interaction, EarlyView.
Rampage school shootings, where students go to their own school to randomly kill classmates, teachers, friends, and strangers, are among the most drastic types of human behavior. While research increasingly points to interaction dynamics as being key for the emergence of crime and violence, scholars have not yet systematically studied interaction ...
Anne Nassauer
wiley   +1 more source

The ‘Equality Of Arms’ In Macedonian Criminal Procedure

open access: yesSEEU Review, 2015
The right to a fair trial is implemented in our criminal procedure and is one of the core values of our criminal justice system. This right is absolute and can’t be limited on any legal base.
Kosevaliska Olga
doaj   +1 more source

Behavior Change Projects in Zoological Collections: Application of the Behavior Change Wheel

open access: yesZoo Biology, EarlyView.
Projects identified from zoo websites and their initial categorization. ABSTRACT Human behavior change is needed to stop the triple planetary crisis. Zoos reach millions of people every year and there is evidence available that people do change their behavior because of zoo led interventions.
Isabel Brinkley   +3 more
wiley   +1 more source

Research of psychological features of corruption criminals with the help of projective technique

open access: yesПсихология и право, 2018
The article presents the second part of the psychological study of the identity of corruption criminals. The results obtained by the projective method "color test of relations" in comparison with the data of survey methods presented earlier are presented.
Kroz M.V., Ratinova N.A.
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Collaborating in future states—Contextual instability, paradigmatic remaking, and public policy

open access: yesAustralian Journal of Public Administration, EarlyView.
Abstract Collaboration is ubiquitous in public policy life, with its presence and profile determined by prevailing governance conditions. Commitments to globalisation and marketisation in the latter part of the 20th century marked the onset of an era defined by collaboration, between and across tiers and spheres of government, with non‐state actors ...
Helen Sullivan
wiley   +1 more source

Activity of the Prosecutor's Office in Modern Russia

open access: yesÈkonomika, Pedagogika i Pravo, 2015
In the present article author considered system and structure of the prosecutor's office bodies in the Russian Federation, its principles are shown. In detail the description of such prosecutor's offices activity is given: Prosecutor General's Office of ...
Irina I. Nikona
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