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Showing 1 to 20 of 45 for “"Criminal cases"”.
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CRIMINAL CASES AT THE ESSEX COUNTY, MASSACHUSETTS, COURT OF GENERAL SESSIONS, 1700 - 1785
<p>This study provides detailed description of criminal 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 …
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An Analysis of the Law on Investigation of Criminal cases and Violation of Accused Rights: Case study Kinondoni District in
… accused of coming the kinds of acts described as criminal does not involves excessive violation of their basic rights and freedoms entrenched in the Constitution (Bill of Rights). This is because the introduction of Bill of Rights into the Constitution was intended to expand the potential capacity …
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The Right to a Fair Trial within a Reasonable Time in Criminal Cases: A Comparative Study between Saudi Arabia and the Requirements of the European Convention on Human Rights, using English Law as an Exemplar
… a reasonable time within the Saudi Arabian criminal justice system. The European Convention on Human Rights 1950 (ECHR) has been used for comparison and as an aspirational model, and the thesis uses the English criminal justice system as an exemplar. The hypothesis of this thesis is that …
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A new approach to child justice? : exploring challenges and opportunities for restorative justice in the Western Cape from the perspectives of victims and perpetrators of youth crime
… the South Africa's thinking around improving the criminal justice system, there is little knowledge as to whether the key role players in a restorative justice approach, the victims and perpetrators, would find it desirable or feasible. Concerns around the appropriateness of restorative justice …
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Population Frequencies of Phosphoglucomutase (PGM), Adenylate Kinase (AK), and Haptoglobin (Hp) in the Metropolitan Birmingham Area.
… to identify or exclude an individual arises in criminal cases. Historically, fingerprinting has been a universally acceptable method of individual identification. Unfortunately, fingerprints are not always found at the crime scene ; therefore, other methods for identification of an individual …
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A Critical Evaluation of the Usefulness of Criteria-Based Content Analysis for Judging the Credibility of Public Appeals for Missing Persons
In criminal cases, the contradictory witness statements of an alleged victim and perpetrator(s) may be the only evidence available to the authorities. The current work investigated the usefulness of Criteria Based Content Analysis (CBCA), a credibility assessment or “truth detection” tool. Although …
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Decision-Making at the Court of Appeals Level Involving Religious Liberty Cases
… decisions. Studies have focused on civil rights cases, economic cases, criminal cases, sexual discrimination and obscenity cases, but no work has specifically looked at religious liberty cases. This work examines the factors affecting United States Courts of Appeals judges' decision-making in …
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Violent teeth: The validity and scientific basis for bite mark evidence
Bite marks have become widely used in criminal-cases in the last 10 years due to the fact that greater public attention to dental hygiene and professional dentistry record keeping has increased the number of dental x-rays used for compariSon Dental evidence is accepted in courts, but its validity …
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The effect of lineup size on eyewitness identification accuracy
… important and widely used source of evidence in criminal cases. However, the current scientific literature provides inconsistent guidance on a very basic question of lineup procedure: lineup size. Some of the ambiguity in the field may be due to different ways in which performance in a lineup …
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Racemization of Amino Acids in Teeth for the Determination of Age
… unknown human remains providing key evidence to criminal cases, resolution to missing persons, and assistance in mass or natural disasters. Identification of remains in an effort to determine age is an area of forensics that has received considerable attention. Traditional methods in age …
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“Smole Trifeles“: The Itinerant in British North America
… oversight by pulling from travel narratives, criminal cases against vagabonds, and merchant records that chronicle their travels. Looking at itinerants and their world opens new windows on early American business practices, social networks, entertainment, and community-building.
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A Qualitative Exploration of a Massachusetts Drug Court: How are the 10 Key Components Applied?
… policy changes that occurred in the 1980s, the criminal justice system was forced to create other methods of dealing with offenders suffering from substance abuse problems. Therefore, drug court was created as a diversion program. Drug court was first created in 1989 in Florida to offer a …
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Law and community in a slave society : Stellenbosch district, c.1760-1820
… c.1760-1820. The chief primary sources include criminal -- and on a smaller scale civil -- records of the local and central courts of the colony. Travellers' accounts have also been utilised. The study of one particular rural district reveals the extent to which the law was intricately woven …
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A verdade da polícia: uma análise dos testemunhos de policiais em inquéritos sobre mortes de civis decorrentes de ação policial em Salvador, em 2016
… of civilians resulting from police action. 14 criminal cases, 49 testimonies and 10 resistance reports were collected and analyzed, in order to identify the discursive elements for the legal justification of lethal state action. The data were analyzed through direct observation of the …
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The corroboration requirement in sexual offences : a discriminatory and unconstitutional evidential rule in the Malawian law
… the standard of proof in sexual offence cases is unnecessarily raised above that which normally obtains in other criminal cases, causing convictions in sexual offences very hard to come by. The rule is found to be only premised on discrimination against women. Such being the case, the …
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All the court's cases: a study of Burger court certiorari policy
While many scholars have ignored the cases that constitute the total litigational input to the U.S. Supreme Court, some have examined the possibility of a set policy or agenda for gatekeeping,or determination of which cases will be heard. This study is concerned with the methodological implications …
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The Criminalisation of Adverse Medical Events in Criminal Negligence Cases: Exploring Fate, Agency, and Pragmatism in the Construction of Blame for Alleged Physician Negligence
The criminal law has been critiqued as an unsuitable system to regulate adverse medical events (AME) because the unintentional nature of AME renders it incompatible with the penal objectives of the criminal law. This project uses an interpretivist approach to examine how blameworthiness is …
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A critical analysis of a review pendente lite application against a lower court`s proceedings and its influence on the right to a fair trial: A South African perspective.
… to have committed offence[s] and subjected to a criminal trial. Whenever the accused is not satisfied with the pending criminal proceedings in a lower court and has a reasonable ground[s] or apprehension that, such proceedings are not in accordance with justice, this study contends that, there is …
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Origins And Development Of Forensic Medicine And Forensic Science In England, 1823-1946
… medicine's role working for the state in criminal cases has always been badly funded, as the discipline has been unable to compete for public funds against more pressing needs. poor teaching and little or no original research. The creation of the Forensic Science Service was an attempt in …
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A regulatory framework for psycho-legal assessments in South Africa
… are involved in numerous matters, ranging from criminal cases, such as conducting psycho-legal assessments regarding criminal capacity, civil proceedings concerning care and contact evaluations, personal injury claims, and many more. In reviewing case law and the complaints lodged with, and …
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