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Showing 1 to 20 of 86 for “"Prosecutors"”.
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Chief Amongst The Angels? International Prosecutors And The Modernist Project
… argues that three successive generations of prosecutors—each of whom at some moment in time belong to a major institution designed specifically to enforce international criminal law—are best understood as agents of the law, politics and war. By examining the relevant institutional …
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Essays on the Discretion of Prosecutors in the Legal Realm
… three chapters that describe the discretion of prosecutors in different ways. The first is a quantitative study that measures how many different interpretations a statute has and how that affects conviction rate. The second is an experiment that has mock prosecutors act out a courtroom situation …
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Transferring Juveniles To The Adult Court: A Factorial Survey Of Florida Prosecutors
Prosecutors have enormous discretion in the criminal justice system. Their decisions can ultimately impact and shape the course of the lives of the offenders whom they prosecute. This is certainly true for juvenile offenders considered for transfer to the adult court. Previous research indicates …
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Self-legitimacy of private prosecutors and their legal advisers in England and Wales
… crucial that we understand how private prosecutors and their legal advisers justify their actions to themselves and others, which is my primary research question, and concerns the cultivation of self-legitimacy. To answer my research questions, I adopted a mixed-method approach. I …
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Decision-making in the Crown Prosecution Service: How do prosecutors make case decisions?
… in the Crown Prosecution Service: How do prosecutors make case decisions? This thesis aims to develop our understanding of how Crown Prosecution Service prosecutors in England and Wales make case decisions. My main argument is that the official account of how prosecutors make decisions as …
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Role of Police, Prosecutors and Defense Attorneys in Traffic Accident Investigation and Adjudication in Chattanooga, Tennessee.
<p>This study provides, via personal interviews, a qualitative examination of police, district attorneys, public defenders and private attorneys who were involved in traffic accident investigation and criminal court adjudication in Chattanooga, Tennessee. These data were compiled to develop a …
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Compliance and competitiveness : how prosecutors enforce labor and environmental laws and promote economic development in Brazil
… organizational behavior to examine how Brazilian prosecutors enforce labor and environmental laws. Typically, the enforcement of protective regulations produces a range of outcomes. In some cases enforcers create major hurdles for business growth. In others, they overlook blatant violations and …
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Sentencing of youth offenders for housebreaking with intent to steal : practices and attitudes of magistrates and prosecutors
… sentencing practices of magistrates and public prosecutors, specifically in housebreaking offences. Some individuals and communities hold a notion that offenders normally break into properties and steal goods or items mainly because they are hungry, destitute, unemployed, or have no visible …
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Essays on Identity-Based Bias and Discrimination
… Chapter 1 examines whether gender match between prosecutors and defendants influences prosecutorial charging decisions and case outcomes. Prior research has largely focused on same-gender bias among judges, juries, and federal prosecutors. This study extends the analysis to county prosecutors who …
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Prosecutor Misconduct and Good Faith Error: A Reanalysis of Two Studies in California and Texas
… available studies to support the conclusion that prosecutors often commit misconduct but are rarely disciplined, although the validity of these studies has rarely been questioned. It is imperative to examine the reliability and validity of these studies, and how far their conclusions can be …
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The implementation of restorative justice by magistrates, prosecutors and probation officers in sentencing of young offenders at selected district magistrate courts in the Western Cape
… sampling (non-probability), magistrates, prosecutors and probation officers were specifically targeted to ascertain to what extend participants were currently implementing the approach of restorative justice in the sentencing of young offenders. Data was collected from charge sheets with …
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Landdroste en staatsaanklaers se spesifieke kennisbasis van die kind as getuie in die hof : 'n maatskaplikewekondersoek
… and treated with respect and dignity. Public prosecutors are the people who represent the complainant's case in court on behalf of the State. It is therefor of utmost importance that public prosecutors and magistrates dispose of the necessary knowledge of the child as witness in court to …
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The implementation of restorative justice in the sentencing of young offenders in the Northern Cape
… is to explore the attitudes of magistrates, prosecutors and probation officers to the implementation of restorative justice in the sentencing of young offenders. The study also explores the knowledge of the magistrates, prosecutors and probation officers about the implementation of …
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Cops in Court: Assessing the Criminal Prosecutions of Police in Six Major Scandals in the New York City Police Department from 1894 to 1994
… attorneys or in other prosecutorial positions. Prosecutors charged over four hundred police officers in cases related to the scandals. Research disclosed that the number of prosecutions and the outcomes of the cases varied greatly across the six scandals. The conduct charged in the prosecutions …
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Decision Making and Reform Within the United States Criminal Justice System
… in the criminal justice system: 911 call-takes, prosecutors, and law enforcement. As most citizen-officer interactions arise from 911 calls for service, the first chapter of this dissertation is a study on the “priming” effect 911-call-takers have on officer decision to arrest and use force on …
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Ecosystem disclaimers for successful influence of higher power occupational groups inside organizations
… the same barriers to influence of higher power prosecutors and had access to the same contextual facilitators of influence. Yet, public defenders from one office influenced prosecutors at a higher rate than they did in the other. Our paper demonstrates how "ecosystem disclaimers"-activities that …
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Do the Views of the Prosecutor's Offices Have an Impact on Whether Intimate Partner Violence Cases Go To Trial?
… the personal views of the police, judges, and prosecutors, have an effect on which cases are brought to trial. Mandatory prosecution laws attempt to overcome these extra-legal factors. I will investigate if these laws succeed in reducing prosecutorial discretion and result in a greater …
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