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Showing 1 to 18 of 18 for “"criminal trial"”.
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Translation of a book of evidence and its impact on a criminal trial - A case study
… current study aims to analyse the impact on a criminal trial of unqualified interpreters’ assistance in the pre-trial process. The starting point of the investigation is an analysis of witness statements written with the assistance of unqualified interpreters. It is followed by an analysis of …
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Sexual offenses on campus: Challenges in the disciplinary system
… process. Drawing the distinction between a criminal trial process and administrative hearing process, I make recommendations for procedural changes to the university disciplinary process that protects the complainant in a sexual offences case from unnecessary trauma during hearings.
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Legal representation and a Bill of Rights
… as a fundamental right of an accused in a criminal trial. 1 Traditionally, however, this, right has been viewed as a right to retain counsel, rather than a positive right to be provided with legal representation in the case of indigent accused. The importance of legal assistance for accused …
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To Conform or Not to Conform: An Examination of the Effects of Mock Jury Deliberation on Individual Jurors
… jury method is a unique social setting in the Criminal Justice system that provides opportunity for social influence to occur. Questions about the formation of jurors’ individual and collective decisions have stimulated a great deal of interest and research. This study is a review of the juror …
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Collective intelligence at Enron during the California energy crisis : uncovering collaborative innovation networks using social network analysis
… metrics of 17 Enron employees convicted in the criminal trial following Enron's implosion with a control group of ordinary employees. I focused on 17 mailboxes of 24 Enron executives that were convicted. Identifying criminals based on email behaviors is possible depending on the sampling …
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A critical analysis of a review pendente lite application against a lower court`s proceedings and its influence on the right to a fair trial: A South African perspective.
… makes a provision for the right to a fair trial to every accused person allegedly presumed to have committed offence[s] and subjected to a criminal trial. Whenever the accused is not satisfied with the pending criminal proceedings in a lower court and has a reasonable ground[s] or …
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Elicitation Mode Effects on Group Decision-Making in a Step-Level Public Good Social Dilemma
… e.g., a guilty versus not-guilty verdict as in a criminal trial, versus continuous decisions, e.g., a monetary budget allocation. The possibility that groups may share the same processes when making these two types of decisions was studied by contrasting groups that made a natural categorical …
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Ireland’s criminal justice system and its response to victims of crime with intellectual disabilities: adversarial procedure on trial
… thesis explores the manner in which the Irish criminal process addresses the specific needs of victims of crime with intellectual disabilities. By critically analysing the evolution of the adversarial legal tradition, it interrogates the epistemic values which have traditionally been at the …
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GENDER, JUSTICE, AND JIM CROW: NORTH CAROLINA JUDGE ELRETA ALEXANDER AND THE LONG CIVIL RIGHTS ERA
… Marion. The trail went on to become the longest criminal trial in Guilford County court history at the time and changed the county’s jury selection procedures. In 1968, Alexander became the first African-American woman to become an elected district court judge. During her tenure she created the …
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GENDER, JUSTICE, AND JIM CROW: NORTH CAROLINA JUDGE ELRETA ALEXANDER AND THE LONG CIVIL RIGHTS ERA
… Marion. The trail went on to become the longest criminal trial in Guilford County court history at the time and changed the county’s jury selection procedures. In 1968, Alexander became the first African-American woman to become an elected district court judge. During her tenure she created the …
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Wrongful Conviction Documentaries: Influences of Crime Media Exposure on Mock Juror Decision-Making
… Research on general and case-specific pretrial publicity (Daftary-Kapur et al., 2014; Kovera, 2002) and the effects of crime media (Baskin & Sommers, 2010; Schweitzer & Saks, 2007) demonstrate that although consuming crime-related media and being exposed to information about a criminal …
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Law and the Culture of Debt in Moscow on the Eve of the Great Reforms, 1850-1870
… replacing it with independent judges, jury trials, and courtroom oratory. But as many legal scholars will agree, political rhetoric about law and high-profile appellate cases fail to capture the full diversity of legal phenomena. I therefore study imperial Russian law in transition from the …
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Utopia on trial : perceptions of Canadian government experiments with Inuit relocation
… reports and transcripts related to the criminal trial which followed, Regina vs Kikkik. The manner in which the Administration controlled the discourse on the relocation and their role in shaping public perceptions of the Inuit deaths is analyzed in Chapter 7. In Part IV (Chapter 8) I …
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Experience on trial: criminal law and the modernist novel
… law and literature, this thesis argues that the criminal trial and realist novel of the eighteenth and nineteenth-centuries perfectly conform to this statement. But by the early twentieth-century, experience had, as Walter Benjamin put it, ‘fallen in value’. As such, the modernist novel and trial …
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La (ir)ragionevole durata delle indagini preliminari
… di prova rientra in toto nell area del fair trial e pertanto gode della conseguente copertura costituzionale, anche se in concreto la specificità delle indagini preliminari presuppone una diversa modalità di attuazione dei principi del giusto processo. Sono state poi affrontate le questioni …
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L¿ESECUZIONE DELLA PENA E L¿ORDINAMENTO PENITENZIARIO PER IMINORENNI: L¿EVOLUZIONE E LE NUOVE PROSPETTIVE ALLA LUCEDEL D.LGS. 2 OTTOBRE 2018, N. 121
… 1988, which, by forging the system of a criminal trial aimed exclusively at under-eighteen-year-olds, endorsed some of the cardinal principles of juvenile matters, of which this thesis intends to give an enucleation: in particular, the specialisation of judges and other professionals who …
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A company is a company because of other people: corporate social responsibility and the constitution
… The Supreme Court of Appeal in the Shaik criminal trial of 2006 emphasised the widespread and devastating results which fraud and corruption can have on the sustainable development of this country, and called for the Legislature to introduce even more stringent and powerful restrictions …