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Decision Theory and Proof Standards for Future Crimes: Possible Uses and Open Questions
Behavioral Sciences &the Law, EarlyView.ABSTRACT What should be the proof standard for applying preventive criminal sanctions based on an establishment of risk of reoffending? This is an open question in legal systems around the world. Various authors suggest that we can answer it by using decision theory. This approach conceptualises the proof standard as a probabilistic threshold. A person
Hylke Jellema, Johannes Bijlsma
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Behavioral Sciences &the Law, EarlyView.ABSTRACT Most research on relational aggression has primarily examined these behaviors among children, with limited exploration of its developmental progression during early adolescence and its associations with antisocial behaviors such as alcohol use, physical aggression, and rule‐breaking conduct.
Briana Amador +5 more
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Summary of activities (Crime Victim Compensation Program (Ariz.)) (2003)
, 2003 In 1986, the Arizona State Legislature created the Crime Victim Compensation and Assistance Fund and directed the Arizona Criminal Justice Commission to administer the fund.
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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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Victim Interdependence in the Accident Setting [PDF]
This paper considers the case that potential victims affect each other by taking care. Analyzing standard liability rules, we show that strict liability with a defense of contributory negligence is in the best position to induce the efficient outcome, i ...
Tim Friehe
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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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Law & Criminology JournalThis study examines sexual victimisation through poetry published online between 2003 and 2025. Poetic data has rarely been used in sexual victimisation research, leaving gaps in understanding and risking misrepresentation.
Rodhinee Islam +2 more
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Behavioral Sciences &the Law, EarlyView.ABSTRACT The imposition of preventive sanctions on offenders—ranging from preventive detention to community supervision—generally requires that the offender is held to be “dangerous”: a legal “dangerousness criterion” must be met. This article shows that in Dutch criminal law, these dangerousness criteria are vague. They fail to define, or define in an
Max de Vries
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