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Showing 1 to 20 of 28 for “"Expert testimony"”.
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Partial belief and expert testimony
… First, when and how should deference to experts or other information sources be qualified? Second, how closely is epistemology related to other philosophical fields, such as metaphysics, ethics, and decision theory? Chapter 1 discusses David Lewis's "Big Bad Bug", an argument for the …
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Battered woman syndrome: Juror common understanding and expert testimony
… two broad questions related to the use of expert testimony in battered women's homicide cases. First, what do laypersons know about battering, and in what ways is that knowledge tied to conceptually similar attitudinal constructs, such as sex roles, adversarial beliefs about women, and …
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Methodology on Trial: The Rhetorical Function of Toulminian Warrants in Expert Testimony
While providing expert testimony in jury trials, scientists face an array of conflicting legal requirements. Expert witnesses must demonstrate the soundness of their scientific methodology, but they must do so with little or no reference to the literature of their field. They must explain advanced …
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How Psychology’s Empirical Results Can Benefit the Criminal Justice System: Expert Testimony
… a scientifically incorrect view of eyewitness testimony. The purpose of this study was to examine the most beneficial way to assist the jury in dealing with eyewitness testimony. Duckworth, Kreiner, Stark-Wroblewski, and Marsh (2011) applied interactive participation in an eyewitness activity …
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First impressions from the jury box: how the length of expert testimony influences mock trial deliberations
… influence that a juror's first impressions of an expert witness might have on two outcomes: judgments of the witness' credibility, and verdict decisions in a criminal case involving a Not Guilty by Insanity (NGRI) defense. This was the first study to use "thin slice" methodology to manipulate time …
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Exploring Medical Expert Testimony and its Contribution to Miscarriages of Justice An Examination of the Flawed Pathological Evidence of Dr Charles Smith
… but specific concern with the use of medical expert evidence in criminal trials is especially timely. With the recent Inquiry into Pediatric Forensic Pathology in Ontario, it has become clear that flawed medical expert evidence can have devastating effects on individuals and criminal trials. …
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Experts & AI systems, explanation & trust: A comparative investigation into the formation of epistemically justified belief in expert testimony and in the outputs of AI-enabled expert systems
The relationship between human experts and those that seek their advice (novices), and between AI-enabled expert systems and users, are epistemically imbalanced relationships. An epistemically imbalanced relationship is one in which the information source (expert/AI) occupies an epistemically …
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Science, psychopathy, and sexually violent predators: do expert witnesses make a difference?
… how to define or assess volitional control, that experts often reach different conclusions in these cases, that predicting future behavior is difficult to assess, and that evidence of psychopathy might bias the factfinder. The current study examined whether a psychopathy diagnosis or the presence …
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A Historical Analysis of Affirmative Admissions Litigation in American Higher Education: 1978--2002
… interview transcripts, amicus briefs, expert testimony, and pro/con affirmative action group judicial response reports served as primary sources for the document analysis. Document analysis provided the tool to extract the central points of the different voices that comprise the debate.
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Sensitizing the general public: experiential processing alters perceptions of confession evidence and minimization
… efforts (i.e., cautionary instructions and expert testimony) do not sufficiently sensitize jurors to false confessions, increasing the chance that false confessions will result in a wrongful conviction. We hypothesized that experiential processing (via personal learning) would alter …
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Expert witness testimony in jury verdicts when battered women kill
… jury verdicts when traumatic brain injury expert testimony is provided and (b) examine the relationship between the verdicts when battered women syndrome expert witness testimony is provided, in Rowan University undergraduate students (N = 100). Students were provided with experimental …
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Assessing the use of DNA expert evidence, by justice system participants, in Ontario criminal courts
… to forensic DNA opinion evidence when the expert witness is not present in the courtroom? Research addressing this issue has largely been focused on polling lawyers regarding their perceptions of DNA evidence, as well as studies of juror understanding of DNA expert evidence in real and mock …
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Juror Evaluation of Eyewitness Evidence
… in the form of judicial instructions or expert testimony to aid their evaluations of eyewitness evidence.
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An analysis of psychological and legal conceptions of the defence of non-pathological criminal incapacity
… of criminal responsibility, the role of expert testimony and the conceptual understanding and application of the defence.
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Expert Evidence, Juries and the Search for Truth: A Case Study Analysis
… of justice involving flawed or misused expert evidence. This thesis attempts to answer the question “Does the situation with regard to the admissibility and presentation of expert evidence inhibit the courts from assessing such evidence in a rational manner, and does the system prevent …
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The efficacy of mental health services in the family court system: Legal professionals' perceptions
… professionals use mental health professionals' expertise in the legal system and the appropriate roles of mental health professionals in this process. Looking at this information from a systemic perspective allowed the relationship between mental health professionals and legal professionals to …
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Washoe Redux: Territory, Sovereignty, and Anthropologists
… legal process brought into focus the power of expert testimony, namely the anthropologists, Dr. Julian H. Steward and his lesser-known antagonist Dr. Omer Call Stewart in determining the outcome of the ICC decisions. The contrasting arguments of two anthropological viewpoints affected the …
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Characteristics of Effective Expert Witnesses in Rehabilitation Counseling
Vocational expert witnesses are retained to perform vocational assessments and provide vocational rehabilitation counseling services to disabled individuals. They are often required to testify as expert witnesses at trials on cases in which they have evaluated disabled individuals or provided …
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A regulatory framework for psycho-legal assessments in South Africa
… level of performance in evaluations and testimony and unethical behaviour. It is argued that the lack of regulation of psycho-legal assessments is one of the main contributing factors in the increasing challenges experienced. The study examines the current regulatory framework regarding …
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