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A framework for the management of digital court records for justice delivery in selected High Courts in the Eastern Cape Province, South Africa
A thesis submitted in fulfilment of the requirements of the degree of Doctor of Philosophy in Library and Information Science, Durban University of Technology, Durban, South Africa, 2024.
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CRIMINAL CASES AT THE ESSEX COUNTY, MASSACHUSETTS, COURT OF GENERAL SESSIONS, 1700 - 1785
… cases at the Essex County, Massachusetts Court of General Sessions of the Peace from 1700 to 1785 and analyzes the relationship between crime and social tension in Massachusetts during this period. The Court of General Sessions was the county administrative and criminal court in eighteenth …
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Attempts to Collect: A Quantitative Analysis of Medical Debt Lawsuits Filed in Thurston County in 2020
… American problem. Many researchers have accessed court records of lawsuits to provide meaningful analysis on medical debt; some have used web scraping techniques to collect court data, while others have reviewed thousands of pages of paper documents. In this study, we use web scraping to download …
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Private Matters: The Place of Privacy in English Legal Records, Romances, and Letters, 1300-1500
… and withdrawal in historical documents such as court records and marriage customs against canonical literature including, but not only, Chaucers Troilus and Criseyde, Sir Gawain and the Green Knight, and Malory's Le Morte Darthur. My study explains the dynamics between privacy and place in urban …
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Gypsies in Early Modern Scotland, c.1570-c.1700
… of legislation, proclamations, criminal court records, church court records, and printed works concerning Gypsies that have been little-studied since the nineteenth century. By considering the reception and treatment of Gypsies, it also offers a fresh perspective on some of the most …
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An Appalachian portrait: black and white in Montgomery County, Virginia, before the Civil War
… census reports for 1850 and 1860. County court records also provide much useful information on the people and their activities before the Civil War. Together they form an invaluable source of information on antebellum mountain life as a forgotten segment of southern society.
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The Relationship Between Juvenile Diversion Programs and Recidivism For Juvenile Offenders
… study, data were gathered from court records and referral history reports for approximately 200 individual juvenile offenders referred to one of three hearing types, including Community Accountability Boards, Teen Court, and Staff Assignments. Results may help administrators …
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The ties that bind: relationship attachment between former spouses
… custodial mothers randomly selected from public court records, this research investigated variables which may contribute to increased attachment to a former spouse, postdivorce. A path analysis was conducted to determine the effects of the selected variables on attachment. The findings indicated …
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To See Her Face, To Hear Her Voice: Profiling the Place of Women in Early Upper East Tennessee, 1773-1810.
… research of the earliest Washington County Court records and other primary evidence from the late eighteenth-century through the early Republic period to examine the place of women in the upper East Tennessee frontier and argue that despite frontier conditions the underlying attitudes about …
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A database of persons convicted of felonies in Washtenaw County, Michigan, 1990-2007
… of information from Washtenaw County, Michigan, court records of approximately one-fourth of its convicted felons from 1990 to 2007. It includes 3,123 sentencing appearances for 3,992 crimes committed by 2,495 defendants. It includes 1126 probation violation resentencings for a total of 5,118 …
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Roesia De Verdun, Thirteenth Century Femme Sole
… as a legal and political actor, appearing in court records and corresponding with influential figures like Bishop Robert Grosseteste. Finally, the third part turns to her material legacy, analyzing personalized artefacts such as her seals and tomb effigy alongside her architectural and …
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'A Deadly Menace to All Young Womankind': Seduction and Protective Legislation in America, 1850-1923
… examination of American newspaper archives, court records, and reformers' personal papers have uncovered cases of unsolicited sexual advances toward women, and have demonstrated that sexual harassment was considered a serious issue of the time long before it became legally recognized in the …
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‘a Deadly Menace To All Young Womankind’: Seduction And Protective Legislation In America, 1850-1923
… examination of American newspaper archives, court records, and reformers’ personal papers have uncovered cases of unsolicited sexual advances toward women, and have demonstrated that sexual harassment was considered a serious issue of the time long before it became legally recognized in the …
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Clandestine Partnerships?: The Link between Human Trafficking and Organized Crime in Metropolitan Atlanta
… to organized crime through an analysis of public court records. Specifically, the study includes the 20 federal human trafficking cases in metropolitan Atlanta indicted between 2000 and 2012. It was found that 80% of the 20 human trafficking cases did not involve a tie to organized crime. Three …
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Beheld
… to the Puritans, without his wife’s knowledge. Court records indicate the children’s mother searched for years to locate where her children were. In reimagining the Mayflower story and puritans, more broadly, in the context of the 17th century, this project may be of interest to prose writers, …
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Bound in Bermuda and Virginia: the First Century of Slave Laws and Customs
… has used a great deal of government documents, court records, diaries, and collections of letters from colonial Bermuda and Virginia. Using these sources, this study suggests what aspects within the respective colonies led to the harsh customs and laws in Virginia and the relatively lax system …
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A study of aspects of crime and distress in seventeenth-century Lancashire
… from both Lancashire quarter sessions and assize courts. Mainly, however, it concentrates on the quarter sessions evidence. It studies crime at the county, as opposed to the local community, level; and makes use of a variety of types of court records. It does not rely on indictment evidence alone, …
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"Freedom Wears a Cap": The Law, Liberty, and Opportunity for British Convict Servants in Virginia, 1718-1788
… to an increase in crime. This study employs the court records of eighteen counties in Colonial Virginia. The author contends that the evidence reveals that theft was the most common criminal activity of convict servants in Virginia. However, despite claims to the contrary, convict servants did …
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The woman in the dock is a monster: An investigation of female criminality in the hearings of the Perth Supreme Court, 1890-1914
… that of men. An examination of Perth Supreme Court records between 1890 and 1914; and media reports of the crimes, is expected to elicit information which should illuminate judicial and patriarchal attitudes towards women in the period and address the issues of why women committed crimes, what …
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