Global ETD Search
Search theses and dissertations gathered from participating repositories worldwide. Every result links back to the library that holds it. No account is needed.
Results
Showing 1 to 20 of 805 for “"judge"”.
-
Judge-made Law
… dissertation discusses the mechanism in which judges create judge-made law in a common- law country. Judge-made law is not created by explicit legislation. Rather, judges create them through their rule-following actions. The term rule-following1 suggests that the action presupposes certain …
-
James Edwin Horton, Jr.: Scottsboro Judge.
… were expressed by a Southerner. The decision of Judge James Edwin Horton, Jr., to overturn the guilty verdict of a jury, thereby decreeing a new trial for a Negro accused of raping a Southern white woman, required not only personal courage, but deep love and understanding of the South. This …
-
Detecting deception: The accuracy of the good judge
Recent research has demonstrated that the good judge, the individual who tends form accurate impressions of others, are skilled in the detection and utilization of social cues (Rogers & Biesanz, in press) though this skill is only evident when interacting with a good target, the individual who …
-
Court-annexed and judge-led mediation in civil cases: the Malaysian experience
… mediation undertaken by a private mediator and judge-led mediation undertaken by a judge. It traces the growth and development of mediation in Malaysia; investigates the factors that impact upon the success of mediation in other jurisdictions; and identifies the barriers and the enablers to the …
-
LLM-as-Judge for Reliable Crack Segmentation in Edge-Based Structural Inspection
… monitoring framework based on the LLM-as-Judge paradigm. In this framework, a lightweight crack segmentation model operates onboard a UAV, while a multimodal large language model evaluates segmentation outputs using visual reasoning, producing a quality score, confidence estimate, and …
-
School-Age Children's Ability to Produce and Judge Syntactic Forms (Metalinguistic Skill)
… 60 school-age children's ability to produce and judge grammaticality of three verb forms. Grade 1, 2, and 3 children produced the perfect (have taken), perfect progressive (have been taking), and past progressive (was taking) in a story retelling task. They judged grammatical form of these three …
-
Determining the human ability to judge inertia during a dynamic pushing task
The purpose of this research was to study the human ability to perceive inertia and to investigate the relationship between individual sensitivity to mass discrimination and the accuracy of inertia judgment. The study involved two major experiments, a mass discrimination test to provide a measure …
-
The Judge as Bricoleur: Bricolage in decision-making in the criminal justice system
In this work I examine the approach of the courts to cases which depart from expected and anticipated norms. Using four case studies from areas where courts have had to respond to situations with which it may be unfamiliar, I explain how, if not properly guided, the courts risk relying on …
-
Judge, jury, and executioner: organizational factors that affect police use of lethal force
There currently exists an empirical gap in our knowledge of organizational factors as they relate to police use of lethal force. As a result of waning interest in macrolevel policing studies over the last three decades, the majority of our understanding of lethal force is derived from studies that …
-
Judge-target trait similarity and accuracy: Does it 'take one to know one'?
Accurate personality judgement has become increasingly important in the workplace, as research indicates that other-ratings of personality may be promising predictors of performance. The effect of personality similarity on judgment accuracy presents a novel approach for studying factors associated …
-
Individual Liberty and Separation of Powers in the Constitutional Statesmanship of Judge Brett Kavanaugh
… dissertation argues that the main theme of Judge Brett Kavanaugh’s Constitutional statesmanship during 12 years on the D.C. Circuit Court of Appeals is individual liberty and separation of powers. The scope in terms of time is Judge Kavanaugh’s time on the Circuit Court. Hence, the title’s …
-
Measuring the Impact of Elections on Judge Behavior Using Machine Learning and Economics Tools
Judges play a critical role in maintaining a fair and independent criminal justice system. Using a combination of empirical tools from Computer Science and Economics, this paper examines the effects of judicial elections on decisions by magistrate court judges in Pennsylvania. I find that judges …
-
Inter-judge reliabilities and selected client-therapist variables: a content analysis of initial psychotherapeutic interviews
Thesis (M.A.)--Michigan State University. Dept. of Psychology, 1965
-
Rhetorics of Judge-Penitence : How Moral Superiority is Publicly Constructed through Admissions of past Wrongdoing.
… directed against 'others' through rhetorics of judge-penitence. Such an argumentative pattern aims to project the in-group as a penitent sinner which has faced its dark past and thus learnt the lessons provided by history. This creates, in turn, the possibility to construct an 'other' …
-
GENDER, JUSTICE, AND JIM CROW: NORTH CAROLINA JUDGE ELRETA ALEXANDER AND THE LONG CIVIL RIGHTS ERA
… woman to become an elected district court judge. During her tenure she created the controversial Judgment Day program, aimed at rehabilitating young, first-time offenders. In 1974, Alexander ran for North Carolina Supreme Court chief justice, losing in the Republican primary to James …
-
GENDER, JUSTICE, AND JIM CROW: NORTH CAROLINA JUDGE ELRETA ALEXANDER AND THE LONG CIVIL RIGHTS ERA
… woman to become an elected district court judge. During her tenure she created the controversial Judgment Day program, aimed at rehabilitating young, first-time offenders. In 1974, Alexander ran for North Carolina Supreme Court chief justice, losing in the Republican primary to James …
-
Criminal Sentencing In the Court Communities of South Carolina: An Examination of offender, Judge, and County Characteristics
… exhibited a renewed interest in the impact that judges and county context have on sentencing outcomes. Various theories have been developed to explain sentencing processes at each of these three levels--the offender, judge, and county--but these theories have been largely compartmentalized, …
Page 1 of 41