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Convictions and manifestations
Convictions are beliefs developed over time through careful consideration forming a base for one’s life work. Manifestations are applied beliefs forming products of the creative spirit.
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Societal perceptions of wrongful convictions
In recent years wrongful convictions have received a considerable amount of research attention. This flourishing interest has resulted in a growing body of literature that aims to investigate this criminal justice phenomenon. Specifically, the current academic literature suggests that exonerees …
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The Affective Consequences of Expressing Moral Convictions
… the affective consequences of expressing moral convictions to an opposing majority. It was predicted that moral conviction would function as a buffer to the common negative emotions that occur when speaking out against majority opinion (e.g., fear; Asch, 1956; Berns, et al., 2005). It was also …
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The influence of personal factors on wrongful convictions
… research and the contextualization of wrongful convictions within the criminal justice system. This study employs negative binomial regression to analyze data collected by the National Registry of Exonerations (NRE). Using a sample of 2,349 cases in which the most severe conviction was murder, …
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Intergenerational Transmission of Convictions: Family Factors as Mediators
… continuity and discontinuity in convictions, with a focus, primarily, on family-related factors. Methods: Both quantitative and qualitative methods were used based on data from the Cambridge Study in Delinquent Development (CSDD). Chi-square tests and logistic regression analyses …
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Speech Act Theory and the Theological Convictions of Preaching
… and expresses biblical preaching’s theological convictions, specifically the preaching event, using the linguistic theory, Speech Act Theory (SAT). Chapter 1 introduces and supports preaching as a priority of Christianity by providing theological convictions about the theological conversation …
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Wrongful Convictions as a Result of Public Defender Representation.
… that can be assumed to be the cause of wrongful convictions. However, due to the lack of directly related research, the determents are not well established. The following research addresses wrongful convictions as a result of public defender representation. Through the process of theory …
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Identification of Seventh-day Adventist Health Core Convictions : Alignment with Current Healthcare Practice
… this study is to define and articulate the core convictions of Seventh-day Adventist healthcare and then investigate how the leaders' and employees' cognitive understandings, behaviors, and affective attachments align at Florida Hospital in Orlando, Florida.</p> <p>Method. This two-phased …
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Policy paper about barriers to entering the behavioral health and nursing professions for individuals with criminal convictions.
… professions for individuals with criminal convictions. At TGI, I conducted research, studied previous incarcerated case studies, policy development, and learned about public policy choices in the US concerning higher education and prison. In the following paper I will provide background …
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Juveniles Adjudicated in Adult Court: The Effects of Age, Gender, Race, Previous Convictions, and Severity of Crime on Sentencing Decisions.
… age at current offense, gender, race, previous convictions, and the seriousness of crimes that contributed to the decisions received by juveniles in adult court. This study examined a secondary data set from the United States Department of Justice entitled Juvenile Defendants in Criminal Courts …
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The Relationship Between Drug Usage, Mental Well-Being and Felony Convictions Among a Sample of Adult Recreational Drug Users: Case-Control Analyses
… between drug usage, mental well-being and felony convictions among a sample of adult recreational drug users. The primary purpose of this analysis was to develop a set of predictor variables from the DRUGNET data set (i.e., lifestyle, drug usage, GWBS) that were able to account for the criterion …
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Wrongful Convictions in the American Criminal Justice System: The Impact of Deceptive Psychological Tactics Used by Law Enforcement, Memory-reliant Evidence, and Socially Conditioned Associations
Within the United States, wrongful convictions pose massive moral and ethical dilemmas, while also threatening the integrity and reliability of our criminal justice system's framework. When analyzing each of these instances of injustice, it is generally apparent to see an array of ways in which the …
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Canadian women and no-crime wrongful convictions: an investigation into whether (and why) women are more frequently wrongfully convicted in no-crime cases against children
Research on no-crime wrongful convictions and female exonerees is scarce, but what research exists suggests that women are wrongfully convicted in no-crime cases against children more often than in wrong-person crime cases. The goal of this dissertation was to begin exploring (1) whether this …
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An Insight into the Wrongly Convicted: Going beyond the Perceptions and Beliefs of the Causes
<p>This study examined the number of wrongful convictions that were exonerated from January 1, 2004 to September 1, 2012. Four hundred forty seven exoneration cases were examined to obtain the factors that contributed to wrongful convictions, the most common offenses related to wrongful …
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Academic integrity and the non-traditional student: Demographics, rationales, and the role of religious beliefs
… Lastly, the strength of student's religious convictions were determined by measuring the level of religious activity and the self reported intensity of religious beliefs. The study revealed an academic honesty rate of 84% (16% cheating). Moral convictions had the greatest impact on their …
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The Voices of Experienced ESL Teachers: Insights Into Learning and Teaching
… their experiences and accompanying attitudes and convictions but also the contexts out of which their convictions are born. What these individualized descriptions do, then, is paint a portrait of each teacher.
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Right Reverend Stephen Elliott: Political Influence and the Protestant Episcopal Church in Georgia, 1840-1866
… late 1840's, the South's religious and political convictions upheld slaveholders' social and economic views. These convictions permeated worship services in Georgia via the ministries. At the onset of the Civil War, spirituality provided an essential source of Southern strength in both victory and …
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“Eminent Spirituality and Eminent Usefulness”: Andrew Fuller’s Contribution to the Revitalization of the Particular Baptists in the Long Eighteenth Century
… 4 describes in greater detail the undergirding convictions that made Fuller so effective by examining his pastoral theology as revealed in a sermon he preached at the 1787 ordination of Robert Fawkner. Chapter 5 concludes by recapitulating why Fuller’s foundational convictions on pastoral …
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