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Showing 1 to 20 of 45 for “"judicial decision making"”.
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Systems of reporting judicial decision making
Law reports, publications containing reports of cases heard in the courts, are one of the major sources of English law. However, the historical development and present day characteristics of this conmiunication of information system have never been comprehensively studied. Interleaved with the …
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Machine learning in predictive analytics on judicial decision-making
… law degree. Predictive analytics applied to judicial decision-making raise interesting discussions around potential benefits to the general public, over-burdened judicial systems and legal professionals respectively. It is also associated with limitations and challenges around manual input …
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Communicating violence risk: judicial decision making in involuntary civil commitments
… have investigated how risk messages impact decisions and how decision-makers interpret risk messages (Kwartner, Lyons, & Boccaccini, 2006; Monahan et al., 2002; Slovic & Monahan, 1995; Slovic, Monahan, & MacGregor, 2000). The main purpose of the current study was to investigate judges' …
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Partisanship and Judicial Decision Making in U.S. Courts of Appeal
Partisanship is found in voter and Congressional behavior. Members of the federal judiciary should behave similarly. I utilize cases involving the Republican and Democratic parties from 1966 to 1997 and examine the voting behavior of federal Courts of Appeal judges. I utilize both cross tabulations …
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Taking precedents seriously: The influence of stare decisis on judicial decision-making.
… the influence of precedent on Supreme Court decision-making in Canada. Despite its importance, very little is actually known about the factors that affect judicial decision-making. The thesis begins by defining the doctrine of precedent, discusses the virtues of adhering to a policy of …
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Coloniality and the Courtroom: Understanding Pre-trial Judicial Decision Making in Brazil
This thesis focuses on judicial decision making during custody hearings in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil. The impetus for the study is that while national and international protocols mandate the use of pre-trial detention only as a last resort, judges continue to detain people pre-trial in large numbers. …
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Reconsidering the 'new' penology: Risk management, dangerous and judicial decision-making.
… the new penology have infiltrated the process of judicial decision-making in Canada. Consistent with other research on frontline criminal justice practitioners, results indicate that, while judges do increasingly employ a risk-oriented and actuarial approach, they have not abandoned the …
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Judicial Decision Making and the Duty To Warn: An Empirical Study of Case Law
Duty to warn is an important staple of psychologists’ ethics training. It is also a widely misunderstood and problematic law that does not necessarily capture the intricacies of working with high-risk or potentially violent clients in outpatient settings. While inpatient settings allow for some …
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A study of the use of scientific and technical data in judicial decision-making
Thesis (B.S.)--Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Dept. of Chemical Engineering, 1979.
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THE SERPENTINE WALL: JUDICIAL DECISION-MAKING IN SUPREME COURT CASES INVOLVING AID TO SECTARIAN SCHOOLS
… 1945 and 1985, as a vehicle for examining decision making by the Supreme Court justices. The discussion of Everson v. Board of Education (1947) relies heavily on the private papers of individual justices, autobiographies, and biographies to determine the importance of personal religious …
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The Federal Courts and Labor Relations Policy, 1936-1954: A Study of Judicial Decision-Making
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A critical examination of overreach in judicial decision-making by the Constitutional Court of South Africa
Includes bibliographical references.
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A socio-legal case study of advocacy and non-advocacy mechanisms established to support the participation of children and young people in non-judicial decision-making processes in Moray.
… of the participant child or young person. In a judicial decision making process, an individual speaking on behalf of a child or young person will have 'rights of audience' and associated 'magistral duties', such as a legal advocate or a safeguarder - the former professionally qualified for the …
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The Relationship between Legal and Extra-legal Factors: How Judges Come to Make their Decisions in Domestic Violence Cases
… Trial Court Judges in state and city courts make decisions in domestic violence cases. The researcher examined the relationship between legal (e.g., evidence) and extra-legal factors (e.g., preconceived biases and behaviors related to judicial decision-making) using a qualitative research design. …
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Essays in empirical law and economics/
… studies whether career concerns influence judicial decision-making within the context of asylum adjudication in immigration courts. The final chapter investigates how expansions in the right to counsel impacted criminal defendants, with particular focus on the Supreme Court's 1963 decision …
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The Roberts Court Constitution of Freedom of Speech: Preferences, Principles, and the Study of Supreme Court Decision-making
… In a number of widely publicized, controversial decisions, the Court under Chief Justice Roberts has incrementally dismantled federal and state efforts at campaign finance reform, made union fundraising more difficult, and restricted the availability of First Amendment protection for students, …
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Federal Drug Sentencing: An Evaluation of the Consistency, Proportionality, and Fairness within Cases
… is framed by the focal concerns theory of judicial decision-making, first articulated by Steffensmeier (1980). The current study finds that defendants' race/ethnicity does not influence sentence lengths after legally relevant guideline variables are controlled. Legally relevant variables …
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Sitting in Judgement: Moral Constraints on Judicial Reasoning within the Bounds of Law
… to exercise discretionary authority in their decision making. The central questions addressed in my thesis are these: (i) need there be constraints on the exercise of this discretionary authority? (I argue, of course, that there is such a need); and (ii) what is the nature and grounding of …
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The Role of Judicial Discourse in Distorting the Public Inquiry Image: Is the Inquiry Becoming an Endangered Species?
… of the Public Inquiry image and its persona via judicial decision-making and legal discourses that are utilized to justify the final product of an inquiry. For instance, while the commissioner is generally equipped with extensive coercive and discretionary powers, there is scarcely any research …
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