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Showing 1 to 10 of 10 for “"legal decision making"”.
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Impact of Offender Sex Across Legal Decision-Making Intercepts in Cases of Domestic Violence: a Meta-Analysis
… Thus far, researchers have examined a variety of legal and extralegal factors involved in the sociolegal response to DV, including offender/victim sex. The outcomes of these studies have produced mixed results, and emerging scholarship often emphasizes the complexity involved within legal …
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Does Race Matter? An Examination of Defendant Race on Legal Decision Making in the Context of Actuarial Risk Assessments
… examples show how consideration of extra-legal factors, like defendant race, in legal decision-making are contributing to the overrepresentation of minorities in the legal system. Because triers of fact may be less familiar with risk assessment results presented by expert witnesses, there …
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The effect of legal judgements on responsibility taking behaviour : an exploratory study
… jurisprudence school of law point out that legal decisions may have important psychological consequences. They propose that research should peristently examine the impact of legal decisions on the psychological functioning of individuals. Judged by letters and articles within the media, one …
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Juvenile Court Judges and their Concerns about Vulnerability, Experienced Uncertainty and the Law: Extralegal Factors, Legal Considerations and Judicial Transfer Decision-making
In American juvenile law, the judicial transfer decision, or waiver of jurisdiction, is a legal maneuver by which young offenders are diverted away from the juvenile justice system and subsequently processed and adjudicated within adult systems of law. Although transfer decisions have a long …
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Will Theory in Arabian Countries' Modern Civil Codes and Its Influence on Contemporary Islamic Jurisprudence : a Critical Analysis with an Emphasis on Contractual Liability and Negligent Tort Rules
<p>Until the nineteenth century, legal practice in the Islamic world was free from any moral-based legal theories. Broad moral theories and legal standards began to influence legal practice only after the old legal institutions were replaced by new ones that brought a new conception of the law. The …
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An analysis of face matching accuracy and related variables: a meta-analysis and two follow-up studies
… accuracy which is crucial as many security decisions rely on face matching and face matching is increasingly involved in legal decision making.
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The impact of lean on the UK civil service and the trade union response
… civil servants including those engaged in quasi-legal decision making. The thesis demonstrates that Civil Service work has been subject to deskilling. Using a 'skill in the job' conceptualisation, the research finds that although elements of job complexity are retained, the levels of job autonomy …
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Soziale Informationsverarbeitung in der juristischen Urteilsfindung : experimentelle Untersuchungen zur Ankerheuristik
Heuristiken der Urteilsbildung umfassen bottom-up bzw. schemagesteuerte Strategien innerhalb der sozialen Informationsverarbeitung, mit deren Hilfe trotz unsicherer Datenlage hinreichend genaue Urteile gefällt werden können. Die Anker- und Anpassungsheuristik als eine Form solcher Faustregeln …
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The Authoritative Text: Raymond of Penyafort's Editing of the 'Decretals of Gregory IX' (1234)
… of Penyafort (1175-1275), actively shaped the legal content of the Decretals through eliminating, rewording, or supplementing the individual texts has remained elusive, in part because of the complicated manuscript tradition and in part because of our ignorance of all his sources. This …
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A theory of configurative fairness for evolving International legal orders: linking the scientific study of value subjectivity to Jurisprudential thought
Values matter in both legal decision (lawmaking and lawapplying) and<br/>discourse (lawshaping and lawinfluencing). Yet, their purported subjectivity<br/>means that gaining or improving knowledge about values (whether they be<br/>epistemic, legal, moral, ethical, economic, political, cultural, …