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Showing 1 to 20 of 381 for “"Conviction"”.
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Tradition and conviction :architecture in context
Ada Louise Huxtable states, "There is the irreparable damage that the rejection of the past has done to our cities, the uncaring and unthinking demolition and loss of our heritage, the destructively wrong scale and sabotaged relationships of the environment, the ignorance and neglect of the …
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Changing polarized beliefs using social consensus and moral conviction
… I tested whether or not reduction of moral conviction can increase the effectiveness of a social consensus intervention. I describe a series of experiments on support for various polarized topics, and show that in some cases, social consensus can increase support. I expect this new approach …
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Bafflement and recognition: on drawing the figure with uncertainty and conviction
… of bafflement and recognition, uncertainty and conviction in equal measure.
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‘Forging a conviction’ – participants’ experiences of a western acupuncture randomised controlled trial
… study identified a core category of ‘forging a conviction’<br/>and a substantive theory of ‘active trial participation’ was developed. Participants<br/>gave reasons for entering the trial and for maintaining their commitment to it,<br/>despite numerous barriers. These experiences helped to forge …
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Religious Conviction, Respect, and the Doctrine of Restraint in the Exclusionist-Inclusionist Debate
… by Christopher Eberle in <italics>Religious Conviction in Liberal Politics</italics>, who argues that although a citizen has an obligation to pursue a convincing secular rationale for a coercive law, he does not have an obligation to withhold support for a law for which he lacks such a …
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Wrongful Conviction Documentaries: Influences of Crime Media Exposure on Mock Juror Decision-Making
… to educate the general public about wrongful convictions (Kassin, 2017; Wells et al., 2000). Recently, programs depicting wrongful convictions, such as <em>Making a Murderer </em>(Demos & Ricciardi, 2015) and <em>When They See Us </em>(DuVernay, 2019) have garnered substantial viewership. …
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Non-conviction-Based Forfeiture of corruptly acquired assets to promote the right to education in Malawi.
… tool, Malawi has historically relied on conviction-based forfeiture, which is often ineffective due to the complex, clandestine nature of financial crimes. This study examines the potential of Non-Conviction-Based Forfeiture (NCBF) as an alternative mechanism for recovering corruptly …
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The Right Thing to Do: Moral Conviction Associated with Reducing Economic Inequality Predicts Support for Redistributive Policies
… inequality can be experienced with moral conviction (i.e., perceived as rooted in one’s core beliefs about right and wrong). This, in turn, can motivate support for redistribution. In Study 1, reducing economic inequality moral conviction scores were comparable to other highly moralized …
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A critical evaluation of the utility of using innocence as a criterion in the post conviction process.
… to consider ‘innocence’. Only the safety of a conviction is within its purview. The Criminal Cases Review Commission (CCRC) cannot correct an error itself, but can invite the CACD to consider doing so if it, CCRC, considers that there is a ‘real possibility’ of the CACD quashing the conviction. …
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Examining the reentry experiences of persons that have obtained some post-secondary education post conviction: a narrative inquiry
This narrative inquiry research study examined the impacts and outcomes that postsecondary education, even if not completed, had on individuals with criminal records once they have reentered society. While quantitative studies show the positive relationship education has on reducing recidivism, …
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Acceptance of Negroes by White College Students as a Function of College-Class Standing, Religious Conviction, and Race of Experimenter
… Negroes; what effect the strength of religious conviction has on these attitudes; and what effect the race of the experimenter has on student response.</p>
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Changing crime mix patterns of criminal careers : longitudinal latent variable approaches for modelling conviction data in England & Wales and the Netherlands
… develop over the life course from two official conviction datasets. The first is the England and Wales Offenders Index (OI). The cohort data of the OI contains the court convictions of offenders from 1963 to the end of 2008 in eight birth cohorts. The other dataset is from the Netherlands …
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The Effect of Plea Bargaining Vs. Trial Conviction on the Sentencing of Offenders Charged with a Drug Offense in Cook County, Illinois
… a sure short sentence rather than risk a trial conviction's lengthier one. This study using statistical procedures examined 12,786 adjudicated drug crime cases between 2004 and 2007 from the Cook County Circuit Court in Illinois. It sought to determine if adjudication method, plea bargain vs. …
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Relationship Between Conviction Rates of Child Abuse Perpetrators and Forensic Medical Examinations Performed By Trained Versus Non-Trained Examiners on Victims of Child Sexual Abuse
… or a non-trained forensic examiner. Court conviction data were obtained from the office of the district attorney in order to compare conviction rates to the forensic medical examining training. Of 1561 child abuse charts reviewed, 756 (48.4%) were sexual abuse cases. The major finding that …
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The Affective Consequences of Expressing Moral Convictions
… the affective consequences of expressing moral convictions to an opposing majority. It was predicted that moral conviction would function as a buffer to the common negative emotions that occur when speaking out against majority opinion (e.g., fear; Asch, 1956; Berns, et al., 2005). It was also …
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Outcomes of sexual assault court cases involving people with intellectual disabilities within the Western Cape: the association between conviction of the perpetrator and the complainants level of intellectual functioning
… justice. This results in low prosecution and conviction rates of sexual offenders in cases involving complainants with ID. There is limited information available about specific factors that predict a court case outcome of sexual abuse cases involving PWID. This correlational study reviewed …
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The influence of personal factors on wrongful convictions
… that influence the likelihood of wrongful conviction. However, fewer efforts have been made to examine how these factors influence the amount of time between wrongful conviction and exoneration. This is crucial to the expansion of innocence research and the contextualization of wrongful …
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A content and thematic analysis of Reddit discussions about When They See Us
As the number of wrongful conviction media productions increases, an understanding of their impact on viewers is prudent. In this thesis, I investigated the effect of watching When They See Us – a dramatized miniseries depicting the wrongful conviction of five racialized teenagers in 1990 – on the …
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The Impact of Trial Consultants on Perceptions of Procedural Justice and Juror Verdicts: An Empirical Investigation
… used a trial consultant, (b) the likelihood of conviction would be highest when the evidence favored the prosecution, moderate when the evidence was ambiguous, and lowest when the evidence favored the defense, (c) the likelihood of conviction would be impacted by an interaction between SOE and …
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