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Testimony on the Proposed Removal of Bans on Industrial Homework in the Apparel Industry [PDF]
, 1989 Public testimony by Prof. Briggs given at a public hearing of the U.S.
Briggs, Vernon M., Jr.
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Behavioral Sciences &the Law, EarlyView.ABSTRACT This study examined how male rape myths, racial/ethnicity biases, and sexuality stereotypes influence verdicts in male‐on‐male rape trials—an area that is currently under‐researched. A sample of 463 participants read a mock rape trial, where both the defendant and complainant were male, with defendant ethnicity (White, Black, Asian) and ...
Lee J. Curley +3 more
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Guestworker Programs for Low-Skilled Workers: Lessons from the Past and Warnings for the Future [PDF]
, 2004 Public testimony by Prof. Briggs given before the Subcommittee on Immigration, Border Security, and Citizenship of the Committee on the Judiciary, United States Senate, February 12 ...
Briggs, Vernon M., Jr.
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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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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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The Moderating Effect of Judge’s Instructions on Victim Impact Testimony in Capital Cases [PDF]
, 2006 In this study, we addressed whether victim impact instructions served as a legal safeguard in a capital case involving victim impact testimony. We hypothesized that specific victim impact instructions would moderate the relation between victim impact ...
Berman, Garrett, Platania, Judith
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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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Differences in Immediate and Delayed Suggestibility Among Children With Dyslexia and Controls
Behavioral Sciences &the Law, EarlyView.ABSTRACT The primary aim of this study was to investigate the relationship between dyslexia and suggestibility in children, and the extent to which this relationship is accounted for by performance on Word Tasks. Participants comprised 95 children with dyslexia and 109 controls.
Gisli Gudjonsson +2 more
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