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Showing 1 to 7 of 7 for “"Right to counsel"”.
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Essays in empirical law and economics/
… of three essays, uses empirical methods to study questions at the intersection of law and economics. The first chapter, co-authored with Joshua Fischman, explores how supervision by an administrative appeals court, the Board of Immigration Appeals (BIA), influences the exercise of …
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Toward assessing and improving the protective efficacy of Canadians’ interrogation rights: misinformation and caution comprehension
The right to silence and right to counsel serve to protect detainees facing the power imbalance of police interrogation. Unfortunately, research indicates people are misinformed about their rights and struggle to comprehend the police cautions which explain them. This reduces the protective …
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STREET CHECKS AND CANADIAN YOUTH: A CRITICAL LEGAL ANALYSIS
… police officer does not have sufficient grounds to detain the individual, (c) the police officer elicits information from that individual, and (d) the individual’s information is stored in a police database. Street checks recently became a topic of discussion in many legal debates and in …
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Miranda rights comprehension and advice to juveniles
… have limited understanding of their Miranda rights. Reforms including simplified wording and the presence of an “interested adult” have been implemented to assist juveniles with legal decisions, but adults’ understanding of Miranda rights is also limited. The present study examined whether …
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Reforming the mechanism for screening prosecutorial charging decision in Taiwan
For years, prosecutors in Taiwan have been faced with criticism from scholars, lawyers, and judges over the abuse or errors of prosecutorial charging decision where there is insufficient evidence to indict a case or there is an ill or unjustified motivation or consideration behind the charge, …
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Essays in Public and Behavioral Economics
… and the welfare impact of policy interventions to address them. Court evictions from rental housing are common but could be avoided if landlords and tenants bargained instead. Such evictions are inefficient if they are costlier than bargaining. We test for two potential causes of inefficient …
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Totality of the circumstances: Factors affecting competence to waive Miranda rights.
… Therefore, the following discourse is aimed toward the development of a foundation for the sociological study of olfaction. It is formed by the dual goals of unearthing the social history of olfaction and of providing a viable sociological account of the manner in which smells affect human …