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Showing 1 to 20 of 107 for “"VERDICT"”.
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The Impact of courtroom demeanour and non-verbal communication on the verdict
Over the years concern has been growing about justice being done in South Africa. Society’s faith in the justice system is not as strong as it was before and matters are being taken on appeal all too frequently. In addition to this, the professional body for legal practioners1 (The Law Society of …
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The effects of expert witness testimony on juror verdict: psychiatry versus psychology
… the effects of expert witness testimony on juror verdicts. We, further, assessed whether there would be a difference in the relative influence of MDs and PhD expert witnesses. Undergraduate and graduate students served as mock jurors and were presented with an insanity case which either (a) a PhD …
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"The Verdict of History": Defining and Defending James Buchanan through Public Memorialization
… sought to refute the public's disparaging "verdict of history," which criticized the former president's passivity in response to secession as evidence of his lack of patriotism. Over time, various forms of monuments and memorials arose in an attempt to counteract this criticism. This thesis …
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Objection! Perspective-taking in the court: How juror's instructions affect empathy, culpability, and verdict decisions
… for a crime, and guilty or not guilty verdicts. A pilot study using a college student sample and a main study using an online sample from Prolific.com aimed to answer whether perspective-taking increased empathy, and decreased ratings of culpability and guilty verdicts for the crime. It …
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The Influence of Racial and Crime Stereotypes on Jurors' Representations of Trial Evidence and Verdict Decisions
… where racially stereotypical crimes might bias verdict decisions. The present research investigated whether the narrative believability of the stories that are suggested at trial, especially story coherence, would explain the effect of race-crime congruence on verdict decisions. Specifically, I …
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Criminally responsible or insane? the influence of jurors' concept of self toward the insanity defense
… between jurors' locus of control and verdict. Three hypothetical insanity cases were constructed: mental illness, mental retardation, and drug intoxication, and were randomly distributed to 96 graduate students from a mid- Atlantic university. Participants read a murder vignette and …
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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
… the lawyer’s credibility, job performance, and verdict outcomes. In general, results indicated that lawyers are more persuasive than defendants, and that polite lawyers are more likable. Implications of this research are discussed, as are limitations of the study. Suggestions for future research …
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Using A Flow-Chart to Reduce Juror's Pre-Existing Biases In Cases Utilizing The Insanity Defense
… their attitudes to assist them when deciding a verdict and punishment. For example, Steblay, Hosch, Culhane & McWethy (2006) found that not only is it difficult for jurors to disregard information that is not relevant or presented during trial, but that pre-trial information and attitudes can …
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Effects of two procedural factors on group decision-making: Deliberation style and assigned decision rule
… all or at least one legal criterion) to render a verdict of liability. Under these task requirements, jury deliberation style, analogous to the verdict-driven/evidence-driven distinction by Hastie, Penrod, and Pennington (1983), and official decision rule were manipulated. Consistent with …
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To Conform or Not to Conform: An Examination of the Effects of Mock Jury Deliberation on Individual Jurors
… Upon reviewing the case, a predeliberation verdict (guilty or not guilty) and the degree of certainty of that decision was made. Once deliberation had occurred and ended, the jurors were asked to make a postdeliberation verdict. This study was conducted to see if conformity would take place …
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Juror Bias in a Mock Case Involving a Defendant With Kleptomania
… to only consider legal factors when making verdict and sentencing recommendations, but research has shown that biases can still affect these decisions. For instance, research has found that jurors can be influenced by both the type of defendant mental illness (Higgins, Heath, & Grannemann, …
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The Need for Limiting Mechanisms on Not Criminally Responsible Dispositions
… for accused persons considering the NCR verdict, particularly when they would face a finite, non-custodial or short custodial sentence on conviction. This thesis considers the need for limiting mechanisms on the duration of NCR dispositions. First, the options for proceeding through the …
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Mock juror perceptions of juvenile defendants in adult court
… questionnaires. Participants were asked to make verdict recommendations and sentence the offender when a guilty verdict was rendered. Results did not support the initial hypothesis. There was no significant difference between juveniles and adults with regard to verdicts rendered, nor did the …
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Through Smoke and Mirrors of the Post-Truth Era: Knowledge-Driven Generation as Algorithmic Resistance to Misinformation
… solution, enabling the automatic production of verdicts: knowledge-grounded textual responses that explain the veracity of a claim. This thesis investigates how knowledge-driven generative approaches can automate verdict generation, leveraging the growing capabilities of modern NLG technologies …
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Sexual harassment jury instructions' effects on jury decisions
… the effect of reasonable standards on the jury's verdict in a sexual harassment lawsuit. One hundred and fifty seven participants (82 males, 74 females and 1 unidentified), ages ranging from 16 to 90, (M= 22.74) were randomly divided into juries (7 reasonable woman, 8 reasonable person, and 9 …
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Knowledge updating in jurors : cognitive load affects juror decision making.
… robbery of a convenience store and rendered a verdict. Then, half of the jurors viewed an exculpatory videotape of the robbery; the remaining jurors completed an unrelated task. All jurors voted again. Those who watched the video were less likely to vote guilty at Time 2. In Experiment 2, we …
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Jurors' Perceptions of Gender Differences in Expert Witness Testimony
… between the sex of the expert witness and the verdict reached. None of the juries exposed to the female expert's testimony could reach a verdict. Juries exposed to the male expert's testimony were variable in their verdicts. Both experts' testimony was rated convincing. Female subjects were …
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Lay decision-making and the insanity defense: The impact of evidence, judicial instructions, case construals, and attitudes on attributions of criminal responsibility
… little of the variance in the predeliberation verdicts. Differences in judicial instructions and verdict form accounted for more of the verdict variance, with the guilty but mentally ill (GBMI) form significantly reducing the probability of Guilty and NGRI verdicts in comparison with …
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Politik hukum perkoperasian di Indonesia: Studi yuridis atas putusan Mahkamah Konstitusi Nomor 28/PUUXI/2013 Tentang dibatalkannya Undang-Undang No.17 Tahun 2012 Tentang Perkoperasian
… So, the result from the examination, CC verdict to annul the regulation No. UU No. 17 Year 2012 and reenact the previous regulation of cooperation No. No.25 Year 1992. Related to this problem, the objective of research are focusing on following questions: 1) what are the factors causing …
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