Download or read book Understanding How Undergraduate Students and Seniors Perceive Jury Duty and Child Witnesses written by Alison M. O'Connor and published by . This book was released on 2018 with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Seniors represent an important group of potential jurors; however, there is little research examining their perceptions of jury duty and their jury behaviours. The present study examined seniors as jurors to investigate how they respond to calls for jury duty (i.e., their willingness) and whether they are capable jurors in terms of detecting dishonest testimony (i.e., their ability). Specifically, we examined the influence of the senior opt-out law (that allows seniors to opt-out of jury duty) on seniors' perceptions of jury duty, as well as seniors' ability to distinguish between true and false testimonies from child witnesses. An undergraduate sample was used as a comparison group. From responses on a jury duty questionnaire, we found that informing senior participants about the senior opt-out law at the start of the study did not impact their desire to serve on a jury or their perception of their ability to be a juror. The majority of seniors responded that they would want to serve on a jury if given the opportunity. Further, seniors showed a significantly lower rate of agreement with the senior opt-out law compared to undergraduates. To assess juror perceptions of child witnesses, participants watched a series of eight child interview videos (four truth-tellers and four lie-tellers) and provided credibility assessments and lie-detection judgments. Results indicated that for both truth and lie-tellers, seniors provided significantly higher evaluations of children's competence to testify, overall credibility, honesty, believability, and likeability compared to undergraduates. Although both groups were significantly above chance at detecting lies, seniors were significantly less accurate, were significantly more biased to trust children, and were significantly more confident in these decisions compared to undergraduates. Lastly, participants' perceptions of their ability to serve as a juror was not related to subsequent lie-detection judgments. Results highlight the importance of continuing to incorporate seniors in the judicial system.
Download or read book Big Kids Don t Cry but what Happens when They Do written by Alexia Cooper and published by . This book was released on 2011 with total page 128 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Although a considerable amount of research has examined the perceived credibility of victims of child sexual abuse (CSA), very little has focused on the effects of children's emotional displays on perceptions of their credibility. The current study sought to address this gap, with three specific aims. First, the research examined the impact of children's emotional displays on jurors' judgments of witness credibility and case outcomes in CSA cases. Second, using expectation violation theory (EVT) as a framework, the research investigated whether children's age and gender interact with demeanor to influence jurors' decisions. Third, the research examined the influence of participant type, comparing the decisions of undergraduate students to those of actual jurors. A total of 603 jurors just released from jury duty and jury-eligible undergraduates read a short summary of a CSA case along with the child's accompanying testimony. The transcripts varied the child's age and gender. While reading the testimony, participants viewed pencil drawings depicting the child's emotional demeanor on the witness stand. The drawings varied the child's age, gender, and emotion (either calm or crying). Participants then rendered a verdict in the case, evaluated the guilt of the defendant, and rated the credibility of the child witness and the defendant. Initial results revealed that the child's displayed demeanor (i.e., the drawing) had no direct effect on participants' judgments. However, fine-grained analyses indicated that participants were influenced by their subjective interpretations of the child's demeanor. Consistent with EVT, participants who perceived the child witness as emotional provided more guilty verdicts, were more certain of the defendant's guilt, found the child more credible, and regarded the defendant as less credible. Also, both older and younger children were rated as more credible when perceived as emotional rather than unemotional, with this effect being stronger for older children. The child's gender had no influence on participants' judgments directly or in conjunction with the child's age or perceived emotional demeanor. Finally, undergraduates were more likely to find the defendant guilty and were more certain of the defendant's guilt than were jurors. Overall, findings have important implications for understanding the impact of children's emotional displays on jurors' decisions in CSA cases and for the need to educate jurors regarding the validity of their perceptions.
Download or read book Child Sexual Abuse Empirical Research on Understanding and Helping Victims and Offenders written by Noora Ellonen and published by Frontiers Media SA. This book was released on 2022-03-11 with total page 177 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Responsibilities and Dispensations written by Carl N. Edwards and published by Carl N Edwards. This book was released on 2001 with total page 478 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Model Rules of Professional Conduct written by American Bar Association. House of Delegates and published by American Bar Association. This book was released on 2007 with total page 216 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Model Rules of Professional Conduct provides an up-to-date resource for information on legal ethics. Federal, state and local courts in all jurisdictions look to the Rules for guidance in solving lawyer malpractice cases, disciplinary actions, disqualification issues, sanctions questions and much more. In this volume, black-letter Rules of Professional Conduct are followed by numbered Comments that explain each Rule's purpose and provide suggestions for its practical application. The Rules will help you identify proper conduct in a variety of given situations, review those instances where discretionary action is possible, and define the nature of the relationship between you and your clients, colleagues and the courts.
Download or read book The Modern Law of Evidence written by Adrian Keane and published by Oxford University Press. This book was released on 2018 with total page 833 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 'The Modern Law of Evidence' is essential for students studying the contemporary law of evidence. It examines the theory behind the law of evidence as well as its practical application, with emphasis on current debates.
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Download or read book The Oxford Handbook of Undergraduate Psychology Education written by Dana S. Dunn and published by Oxford University Press. This book was released on 2015-08-07 with total page 953 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Oxford Handbook of Undergraduate Psychology Education is dedicated to providing comprehensive coverage of teaching, pedagogy, and professional issues in psychology. The Handbook is designed to help psychology educators at each stage of their careers, from teaching their first courses and developing their careers to serving as department or program administrators. The goal of the Handbook is to provide teachers, educators, researchers, scholars, and administrators in psychology with current, practical advice on course creation, best practices in psychology pedagogy, course content recommendations, teaching methods and classroom management strategies, advice on student advising, and administrative and professional issues, such as managing one's career, chairing the department, organizing the curriculum, and conducting assessment, among other topics. The primary audience for this Handbook is college and university-level psychology teachers (at both two and four-year institutions) at the assistant, associate, and full professor levels, as well as department chairs and other psychology program administrators, who want to improve teaching and learning within their departments. Faculty members in other social science disciplines (e.g., sociology, education, political science) will find material in the Handbook to be applicable or adaptable to their own programs and courses.
Download or read book Citizenship written by Elizabeth F. Cohen and published by John Wiley & Sons. This book was released on 2019-07-09 with total page 84 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Although we live in a period of unprecedented globalization and mass migration, many contemporary western liberal democracies are asserting their sovereignty over who gets to become members of their polities with renewed ferocity. Citizenship matters more than ever. In this book, Elizabeth F. Cohen and Cyril Ghosh provide a concise and comprehensive introduction to the concept of citizenship and evaluate the idea’s continuing relevance in the 21st century. They examine multiple facets of the concept, including the classic and contemporary theories that inform the practice of citizenship, the historical development of citizenship as a practice, and citizenship as an instrument of administrative rationality as well as lived experience. They show how access to a range of rights and privileges that accrue from citizenship in countries of the global north is creating a global citizenship-based caste system. This skillful critical appraisal of citizenship in the context of phenomena such as the global refugee crisis, South-North migration, and growing demands for minority rights will be essential reading for students and scholars of citizenship, migration studies and democratic theory.
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Download or read book The South Western Reporter written by and published by . This book was released on 1808 with total page 1256 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Includes the decisions of the Supreme Courts of Missouri, Arkansas, Tennessee, and Texas, and Court of Appeals of Kentucky; Aug./Dec. 1886-May/Aug. 1892, Court of Appeals of Texas; Aug. 1892/Feb. 1893-Jan./Feb. 1928, Courts of Civil and Criminal Appeals of Texas; Apr./June 1896-Aug./Nov. 1907, Court of Appeals of Indian Territory; May/June 1927-Jan./Feb. 1928, Courts of Appeals of Missouri and Commission of Appeals of Texas.
Download or read book Criminal Juries in the 21st Century written by Cynthia Najdowski and published by Oxford University Press. This book was released on 2018-08-20 with total page 448 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The jury is often hailed as one of the most important symbols of American democracy. Yet much has changed since the Sixth Amendment in 1791 first guaranteed all citizens the right to a jury trial in criminal prosecutions. Experts now have a much more nuanced understanding of the psychological implications of being a juror, and advances in technology and neuroscience make the work of rendering a decision in a criminal trial more complicated than ever before. Criminal Juries in the 21st Century explores the increasingly wide gulf between criminal trial law, procedures, and policy, and what scientific findings have revealed about the human experience of serving as a juror. Readers will contemplate myriad legal issues that arise when jurors decide criminal cases as well as cutting-edge psychological research that can be used to not only understand the performance and experience of the contemporary criminal jury, but also to improve it. Chapter authors grapple with a number of key issues at the intersection of psychology and law, guiding readers to consider everything from the factors that influence the initial selection of the jury to how jurors cope with and reflect on their service after the trial ends. Together the chapters provide a unique view of criminal juries with the goal of increasing awareness of a broad range of current issues in great need of theoretical, empirical, and legal attention. Criminal Juries in the 21st Century will identify how social science research can inform law and policy relevant to improving justice within the jury system, and is an essential resource for those who directly study jury decision making as well as social scientists generally, attorneys, judges, students, and even future jurors.
Download or read book Routledge Handbook of Evidence Based Criminal Justice Practices written by Edelyn Verona and published by Taylor & Francis. This book was released on 2023-10-31 with total page 478 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Now more than ever, the criminal justice system, and the programs, policies, and practices within it, are subject to increased public scrutiny, due to well-founded concerns over effectiveness, fairness, and potential unintended consequences. One of the best means to address these concerns is to draw upon evidence-based approaches demonstrated to be effective through empirical research, rather than through anecdote, standard practice, or professional experience alone (National Institute of Justice, 2011). The goal of this book is to describe the most useful, actionable, and evidence-based solutions to many of the most pressing questions in the criminal justice system today. Specifically, this edited volume contains brief and accessible summaries of the best available research, alongside detailed descriptions of evidence-based practices, across different areas of the criminal justice system. It is written so that practitioners and researchers alike can use the text as reference tool in their work and in training the new generation of individuals working to improve the system. Researchers and practitioners in many areas of criminal justice – crime prevention, policing, courts (prosecution, defendants, judges), corrections, sanctions, and sentencing – can reference specific chapters in this book to guide their policy and practice decisions. Although theory is a guide for the practices described, the chapters will address practical issues in implementation and action. This book overcomes the limitations of previous criminal justice practice books in that it is written as a practice resource and reference guide and spans practices and policies across different sectors of the criminal justice system – from prevention to policing to sanctions and corrections. Each chapter contains a list of action items, based upon the best available scientific research, that can be implemented in practice to address key issues and long standing challenges in the criminal justice system.
Download or read book Children s Testimony written by Michael E. Lamb and published by John Wiley & Sons. This book was released on 2011-06-01 with total page 487 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The second edition of Children’s Testimony is a fully up-to-date resource for practitioners and researchers working in forensic contexts and concerned with children's ability to provide reliable testimony about abuse. Written for both practitioners and researchers working in forensic contexts, including investigative interviewers, police officers, lawyers, judges, expert witnesses, and social workers Explores a range of issues involved with children's testimony and their ability to provide reliable testimony about experienced or witnessed events, including abuse Avoids jargon and highly technical language Includes a comprehensive range of contributions from an international group of practitioners and researchers to ensure topicality and relevance
Download or read book A Treatise on the Law of Evidence written by Samuel March Phillipps and published by . This book was released on 1849 with total page 618 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
