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Showing 1 to 20 of 1312 for “"Courts"”.
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Problem Solving Courts & Race: An Examination of Community Courts and the Impact of Race
… new and innovative practices. Problem solving courts have been leading the way by incorporating evidence-based practices in the courtroom to find alternatives to incarceration. However, although problem solving courts are receiving praise for their innovative ways, they have seemed to fail at …
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Maritime courts and the constitution
… different kinds of shipping tribunal, namely, Courts of Marine Enquiry, Courts of Survey, and Maritime Courts. Courts of Marine Enquiry are used when a South African ship is lost, abandoned or stranded, or an accident occurs aboard, or there is loss of life or a serious injury, whether locally …
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Mental health courts reduce crime rates.
This paper studies the effect of mental health courts on crime rates for violent and property crimes. Mental health courts are intended to help offenders with mental illnesses treat their illnesses and get them on the right track so they can be law abiding citizens. Uniform Crime Reporting …
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Child witnesses in Scottish criminal courts
Gathering evidence from young and vulnerable witnesses requires special care, and subjecting them to the traditional adversarial form of examination and cross-examination – often characterized by overly leading, complex, and confusing questioning – has come under increased scrutiny. The present …
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Community courts in Namibia: A policy challenge
For generations, Customary/Community Courts have played a vital role in the resolution and settlement of disputes among community members. Traditional leaders have been instrumental both as law-makers and as enforcing judges of the customary law observed by the majority of the population of the …
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Welfare reform: Politics, policy and the courts
Welfare Reform: Politics, Policy and The Courts is a detailed analysis of welfare reform as directed by Congress in the Personal Responsibility Act of 1996. The thesis entails the following: an analysis of the historical factors that have led to legislative reform of the US welfare policy; an …
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The organization of the courts of Missouri
… have established a very simple system of courts, suitable only for the most sparsely settled parts of the state. The theory was that the legislature would establish additional courts where it was necessary. This practice resulted in great confusion, and in courts with overlapping …
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A criminal courts, prison and hospital building
Thesis: M. Arch., Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Department of Architecture, 1935
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An economic analysis of state criminal courts
… dissertation is an analysis of state criminal courts, and employs the economics of property rights to develop a model of these courts. Previous economic analyses have not considered the effects of the property rights structure an decision making in the courts and are thus incomplete. That …
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Placing Federal District Courts in the Judicial Hierarchy
… and Vines: 1967) complained that federal courts have seldom been investigated as a system of interactions," the same problem continues to plague judicial scholarship, particularly concerning federal district courts. Viewed as the sum of its three essays, this dissertation project seeks to …
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Judicial Independence of State Administrative Courts in Mexico
… of judges from six Mexican state administrative courts in the 2006-2008 period, this study finds preliminary evidence that judges ’characteristics and contextual factors are associated with judicial independence. More specifically, judges with longer periods of service in the state court will be …
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Sacred Justices: Seeking Indigenous Environmental Justice in Courts
This thesis studies how courts encounter and engage with Indigenous environmental justice (IEJ) in litigation pursued by Indigenous communities in Australia, Brazil, and Canada. The thesis advances IEJ as a principle that may be framed, used and developed in juridical spaces. The research draws …
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The Construction of Victimhood in Human Trafficking Intervention Courts
<p>Human trafficking intervention courts (HTICs), specialty courts in the US designed to connect trafficking victims to services when they are arrested, require defendants to identify as victims of human trafficking in order to qualify for HTICs' services and other social supports. However, some …
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Drug courts and the Following of the Federal Guidelines
… This research measures how closely drug courts in the Commonwealth of Massachusetts follow the 10 Key Components and how this relates to the drug court effectiveness.</p>
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Legitimate Interpretation: Comparative Reasoning in International Courts and Tribunals
… of international law by international courts and tribunals; and, second, is it permissible for courts and tribunals to use domestic law in this way? Despite their deceptively simple appearance, these questions raise issues that go to the very heart of interpretation itself. On what …
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