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Forms of cooperation between public prosecutor and preliminary investigators

open access: yes, 2008
Straipsnyje, remiantis teisės aktų ir mokslinės literatūros analize bei atliktu empiriniu tyrimu, autorius nagrinėja prokurorų ir ikiteisminio tyrimo pareigūnų bendradarbiavimo sampratos, teisinio įtvirtinimo bei šių subjektų bendradarbiavimo ...
Šatas, Mindaugas
core  

What is (de)politicization and what is wrong with it?

open access: yesAmerican Journal of Political Science, EarlyView.
Abstract This article attempts to clarify the meaning of (de)politicization. Politicization sometimes refers to the inappropriate intrusion of partisan loyalties in nonpolitical social domains (affective politicization). Politicization can also constitute an ideal of civic agency and energy (contestatory politicization).
Dimitrios Halikias
wiley   +1 more source

Contesting repression in divided democracies: Can counternarratives reduce support for police violence?

open access: yesAmerican Journal of Political Science, EarlyView.
Abstract Democracies often struggle to contain police violence, which undermines the rule of law and reproduces inequality by targeting marginalized citizens. Yet, scholars have shown that repressive policing enjoys considerable public support. Focusing on Brazil, we demonstrate that attitudes toward police violence mirror polarization between left ...
Yanilda María González, Natán Skigin
wiley   +1 more source

Key insights into biosecurity risks, communication preferences and behaviour change drivers among livestock transporters in Australia

open access: yesAustralian Veterinary Journal, EarlyView.
The transportation of livestock poses an increased risk of disease transmission, with transportation vehicles acting as vectors for disease. Biosecurity management within the livestock industry is therefore critical to reduce the risk of disease transmission. This study investigated the current biosecurity practices of stakeholders within the livestock
M Hernandez‐Jover   +3 more
wiley   +1 more source

Towards an Asian registry of wrongful convictions. [PDF]

open access: yesForensic Sci Int Synerg
Zhang Y   +7 more
europepmc   +1 more source

Of hired guns and ideologues: Why would a law firm ever retain an honest expert witness?

open access: yesCanadian Journal of Economics/Revue canadienne d'économique, EarlyView.
Abstract Suppose that expert witnesses appearing in litigation are, generically, either honest in their assessment of a fact situation or are advocates who testify in favour of their retaining party, regardless of new information. The type of a witness is known to law firms, who engage with them repeatedly, but not to courts.
Martin Richardson, Jose Rodrigues‐Neto
wiley   +1 more source

Spite in litigation

open access: yesCanadian Journal of Economics/Revue canadienne d'économique, EarlyView.
Abstract This paper studies how litigation and settlement behaviour is affected by agents motivated by spiteful preferences under the American fee‐shifting rule compared to the English one. We conduct an experiment and find that litigation expenditures are overall higher under the English rule compared to the American rule—even for low‐merit cases ...
Wladislaw Mill, Jonathan Stäbler
wiley   +1 more source

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