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Showing 1 to 20 of 115 for “"Defendant"”.
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Juror Bias in a Mock Case Involving a Defendant With Kleptomania
… jurors can be influenced by both the type of defendant mental illness (Higgins, Heath, & Grannemann, 2007) and causal attributions regarding the mental illness (Rendell, Huss, & Jensen, 2010), even if jurors have not explicitly been told to consider this information. Although individuals with …
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Mock jurors' judgements of the victim, crime and defendant as a function of victim race and deliberation
… America indicate that the race of the victim and defendant inappropriately influences jurors' decision-making. However, to date, no such published research has been conducted in Australia. Due to Australia's diverse population, which consists of several minority groups and a dominant Caucasian …
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Contesting Victimhood: A Linguistic and Legal Anthropological Analysis of Defendant Experiences in New York’s Human Trafficking Intervention Courts
… in HTICs by focusing on the experiences of defendants and how they are perceived by the police, judges, and other agents of the HTICs. Before entering the HTICs, defendants are perceived as criminals as shown by the justification and criteria for their arrest by the police. In the HTICs, …
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Does Race Matter? An Examination of Defendant Race on Legal Decision Making in the Context of Actuarial Risk Assessments
… how consideration of extra-legal factors, like defendant race, in legal decision-making are contributing to the overrepresentation of minorities in the legal system. Because triers of fact may be less familiar with risk assessment results presented by expert witnesses, there is a need to examine …
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Same action, different reaction? Exploring the impact of legal profession, defendant race, and prospective juror race on perceptions of juror excusals
… vs. defense vs. judge) in a (Black vs. White) defendant’s trial and excused any number of prospective jurors from a panel of 20. All three hypotheses derived from Sommers and Norton (2007) were supported: mock-Crown attorneys with Black defendants provided significantly more race-neutral (vs. …
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Impact of Lawyer Sex, and Lawyer and Defendant Use of Polite Language on Observer’s Perception of the Lawyer’s Job Performance and Credibility, and Verdict Outcome
… level, and the politeness level of the defendant the lawyer is examining, all work together to affect observer’s views of the lawyer’s credibility, job performance, and verdict outcomes. In general, results indicated that lawyers are more persuasive than defendants, and that polite …
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Biases toward defendants in joint criminal trials
… any number of individuals may be joined as co-defendants in a single trial, fanning a situation known as a joint trial. The charge/s against each defendant are considered separately and given a separate verdict by the jury. There is considerable debate in the legal arena as to the utility of …
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Peran juru sita dalam upaya menghadirkan tergugat kasus perceraian di Pengadilan Agama Bangil Kabupaten Pasuruan
… bias and can be accepted by the plaintiff or defendant. Pursuant to Article 103 of Law No. 50 In 2009 the duty to summon the litigants to appear before the court is Bailiffs / Substitute Bailiffs. The research focus is to determine how the application role BangilThe Islamic Court Bailiffs. It …
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Laikinųjų apsaugos priemonių taikymo problematika /
… a certain period of time. Sometimes by reason of defendant's bad faith the due enforcement of a judgment may become difficult or even impossible. For instance, a defendant may assign his property to other persons, conceal it or destroy after becoming aware of legal action instituted against him. …
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The Effects of Race and Evidence on Jury Decision-Making in Sexual Harassment Cases
… decision making. Specifically, the race of the defendant served as the extralegal factor, while the amount of evidence presented was determined in relation to how many variables (0, 2, or 4 sources of evidence) were included in a particular sexual harassment scenario. (The four variables used …
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Physical Abilities Testing: A Review of Court Cases, 1992-2006
… two were not). The courts ruled in favor of the defendant in the four cases where the test was validated. In all 22 cases, public safety was found to be an issue of concern. Of the 22 cases, 15 found for the defendant, 2 found for the plaintiff, and 3 were remanded, indicating that when public …
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Essays on the economics of law, crime and discrimination
… the judicial bail-setting process and the defendant decision to pay bail. Optimal bail-setting rules must balance the tradeoffs between costs to defendants and costs to society. This chapter develops a model of optimal bail that incorporates the cost of jailing the defendant, the private …
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Race and ethnicity influences on mock-juror evaluations of eyewitness testimony.
… experiments were the first to manipulate both defendant and eyewitness race/ethnicity to examine their influence on mock jurors' decisions in a criminal case. In Experiment 1, Black mock jurors rated the testimony of an eyewitness as more credible and more important to their decisions when the …
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A Review of Court Cases Involving Discrimination in Physical Ability Testing: 1992-2015
… to rule in favor of the plaintiff or the defendant. The purpose of the present study is to identify those factors. The ADA (1990) created strict guidelines for plaintiffs and defendants to follow to be credible in a discrimination case. This study will specifically determine the impact of …
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Capital Punishment And Race Disparities In The Modern Era: An Empirical Analysis
<p>Dissimilarities by race-of-defendant and race-of-victim have received ample attention in capital punishment literature, predominately in regard to death sentencing. Much less attention has been provided to the intersection of race and gender-of-victim with utilization of execution data, and …
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The Attractiveness of the Victims and Defendants of a Crime as Contributing Factors to the Severity of the Penalties Assigned by Simulated Jurors
… is deciding upon the guilt or innocence of a defendant, the facts pertaining to the crime are the sole determinants of the verdict reached. There is reason to believe, however, that this is not always the case. A substantial body of literature supports the idea that the impression jurors form …
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Physical Ability Testing: A Review of Court Cases 1992-2014
… whether court cases found for the plaintiff or defendant. Additionally, rulings did not significantly differ in ruling in favor of the plaintiff or defendant with regard to whether the position in question involved public safety. Finally, the ADA related cases did not significantly differ in …
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Effects of joint trials on the proportion of guilty verdicts assigned to defendants
… automatically tried together in a joint trial. Defendants can apply to have a joint trial severed into separate trials, but they are rarely granted. However, joint trials might be biasing against defendants in that they might have a greater likelihood of obtaining aguilty verdict than if they …
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Effects of Social Stereotypes on Evidence Processing: The Cognitive Basis of Discrimination in Juridic Decision Making
… in two experiments judged the culpability of a defendant accused of criminal assault. In some cases the defendant was a member of a stereotyped minority group, and in others he was not. Experiment 1 revealed that stereotypes affected judgments of the defendant's guilt when they were activated …
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The Influence of Phenotypic Variation on Criminal Judgement
… had a main effect on recommended years for the defendant to serve (Ruby & Brigham, 1996). The most prototypical defendant was more likely sentenced to prison time followed by a period of probation and to serve approximately six more years in the adult correction system than the least or average …
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