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The Prosecutor’s Contribution to Wrongful Convictions [PDF]

open access: yes, 2014
A prosecutor is viewed by the public as a powerful law enforcement official whose responsibility is to convict guilty people of crimes. But not everybody understands that a prosecutor’s function is not only to win convictions of law-breakers.
Gershman, Bennett L.
core   +1 more source

Critical Discourse Analysis in Corporate Reports: Legitimation Strategies in the Context of Environmental Controversies

open access: yesCorporate Social Responsibility and Environmental Management, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT This study examines the use of environmental disclosure as a strategic tool to manage legitimacy crises in a mining company, adopting critical discourse analysis (CDA) as the main methodology. Focusing on a case of environmental disaster, this research reveals how corporate narratives can be manipulated to minimize responsibility and reinforce
Renata Luiza de Castilho Rossoni   +1 more
wiley   +1 more source

Above the Law: The Prosecutor\u27s Duty to Seek Justice and the Performance of Substantial Assistance Agreements [PDF]

open access: yes, 2000
We study the gravitational-wave (GW) signatures of clouds of ultralight bosons around black holes (BHs) in binary inspirals. These clouds, which are formed via superradiance instabilities for rapidly rotating BHs, produce distinct effects in the ...
Galin, Ross
core   +7 more sources

FORENSIC PSYCHOLOGICAL ASSESSMENT OF MATERIALS CONTAINING VERBAL AND NONVERBAL COMPONENTS

open access: yesТеория и практика судебной экспертизы, 2014
The paper looks at some questions pertaining to the examination of “static” information materials. The presence of nonverbal elements in printed text varies widely depending the nature of the text and the channel of information transfer.
M. Kroz, N. Ratinova
doaj  

The collision of feminisms, sexuality, and trafficking in persons in the Caribbean—A place for Kempadoo

open access: yesFeminist Anthropology, EarlyView.
Abstract The existence and development of feminist scholarship and practice have been revisited by feminist anthropologists and sociologists exploring it among the gendered cultural and historical dynamics of the Caribbean. Feminist Caribbeanists’ pioneering efforts that fit within this theoretical family have challenged the Global North status quo to ...
Cherisse Francis
wiley   +1 more source

The Conscience of a Prosecutor [PDF]

open access: yes, 2010
This essay, a version of the 2010 Tabor Lecture at Valparaiso Law School, examines issues about the role of a prosecutor in the adversary system through the lens of the following question: Should a prosecutor throw a case to avoid keeping men who he ...
Luban, David
core   +3 more sources

Major Cybersecurity Breaches: Shaping Corporate Cybersecurity Policies and Closing the Gaps

open access: yesJournal of Corporate Accounting &Finance, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT As digitalization accelerates, cybercrime has intensified in both scale and impact over the past two decades. This study aims to critically examine major cybersecurity events, assess them through the lens of routine activity theory, examine insight from three other established criminological and organizational theories, and address central ...
Laura K. Rickett, Deborah Smith
wiley   +1 more source

CRIMINALITY OF MIGRANTS-FOREIGNERS AND ITS PECULIAR FEATURES

open access: yesRussian Journal of Economics and Law, 2013
Objective: to reveal the peculiar features of migrants-foreigners in the Russian Federation. Methods: General scientific and sociological methods were used, such as coming from abstract to concrete; systemic-structural analysis; historical method ...
G. V. Antonov-Romanovskiy   +2 more
doaj  

The Progressive Prosecutor: An Imperative for Criminal Justice Reform [PDF]

open access: yes, 2018
In a law review article written seventeen years ago, Professor Abbe Smith asked the question, “Can You Be a Good Person and a Good Prosecutor?” Professor Smith ultimately answered the question in the negative.
Davis, Angela J.
core   +2 more sources

Cohort profile: The Halmstad University Register on Pupils with Intellectual Disability

open access: yesJCPP Advances, EarlyView.
Abstract Background Knowledge about the living conditions among people with intellectual disabilities (ID) is globally scarce. Even in countries with good access to registers, this is often partly due to the absence of a single, comprehensive, nationwide register of individuals with ID or the inability to identify all individuals with ID within ...
Eva Jönsson   +3 more
wiley   +1 more source

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