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Showing 1 to 20 of 41 for “"Criminal courts"”.
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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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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
This 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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Explaining state cooperation with the international criminal courts and tribunals
… effective state cooperation with international criminal courts and tribunals. I answered the research question by conducting two empirical analyses.The first study places states at the centre of the analysis. The literature review identified six conditions: court independence; court outreach; …
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Bargaining for justice: plea bargaining as reform in the criminal courts,
Massachusetts Institute of Technology. Dept. of Urban Studies and Planning. Thesis. 1974. Ph.D.
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Assessing the use of DNA expert evidence, by justice system participants, in Ontario criminal courts
… for cases that have passed through the Ontario criminal courts within the past fifteen years. This project is the first assessment of Canadian criminal court case transcripts, comparing expert DNA evidence with the (largely) non-scientist attorneys’ and judges’ inferred understanding and use of …
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The Influence of Human Rights Advocacy Networks on the Prosecution of Conflict-Related Sexual Violence in International Criminal Courts
… sexual violence in international criminal courts. This thesis will use the cases of the International Criminal Tribunal for Yugoslavia (ICTY), the International Criminal Tribunal for Rwanda (ICTR), and the International Criminal Court (ICC) to demonstrate that well-established …
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Public defenders vs. assigned counsel: an exploratory analysis of the defense of indigents in the lower criminal courts of Massachusetts.
Massachusetts Institute of Technology. Dept. of Urban Studies and Planning. Thesis. 1974. B.S.
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The right to be present at trial in international criminal law
International criminal law considers the accused’s right to be present at trial to be a key component of his or her right to a fair trial at international and internationalised criminal courts and tribunals. The central research question this thesis explores is: what does the accused’s right to be …
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"""I am the Devil's own"": Crime, class, and identity in the seventeenth century Dutch East Indies"
"""I am the Devil's Own"" examines the ways the criminal justice system interacted with social services and military regulation to foster and impose class, gender, and ethnic identities on inhabitants of the Dutch East Indies during the period between the promulgation of the first independent Dutch …
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Consistency of the interpretation and implementation of command responsibility and its components in international criminal law
… of ‘command responsibility’ in international criminal law. It closely examines the development of command responsibility as a norm under international criminal law. It then scrutinises the consistency of interpreting and implementing this doctrine under the current jurisprudence and case-law …
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Juveniles Adjudicated in Adult Court: The Effects of Age, Gender, Race, Previous Convictions, and Severity of Crime on Sentencing Decisions.
… of Justice entitled Juvenile Defendants in Criminal Courts (JDCC): Survey of 40 Counties in the United States, 1998. The cases from these 40 jurisdictions represented all filings during one month in 75 of the most populous counties. The current study found significant differences among race, …
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Federal Drug Sentencing: An Evaluation of the Consistency, Proportionality, and Fairness within Cases
… but are overrepresented as defendants in criminal courts and as inmates in prison. The purpose of this research is to evaluate fairness in federal drug sentencing. The current study uses data compiled by the United States Sentencing Commission (USSC) to examine the sentence lengths of …
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An unfair trial with special reference to improper splitting of charges
… splitting of charges which is a problem in our criminal courts. The candidate starts by defining improper splitting of charges and then discusses its origin and guidelines which are followed by our courts in determining whether or not a charge has been split. Reference is made to the provisions …
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CAN SOCIAL PROTESTS CHANGE LOCAL SENTENCING PATTERNS? EVIDENCE FROM THE 2015 BALTIMORE UPRISING
… considers their potential impact on the criminal justice system, and particularly on the courts, the institution that primarily distributes punishment and exerts formal social control. At the same time, criminologists and sociologists agree that courts do not operate in a social vacuum …
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Aspects of society in Scotland and north east England, c.1550 - c.1750: social structure, literacy and geographical mobility.
… bonds and depositions at both ecclesiastical and criminal courts are analysed, mainly for the period 1640-1750. Results are compared with subscriptions to the scottish Covenants, 1638-43, and with deposition evidence at various civil and criminal courts, 1630-1760. The level of literacy in …
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