Effects of a new commitment law on involuntary admissions and service utilization patternsLaw and Human Behavior - Tập 3 - Trang 149-161 - 1979
James W. Luckey, John J. Berman
Recently Nebraska changed its commitment law to include many procedural safeguards and require behaviorally manifested dangerousness as a criterion of commitment. An interrupted time-series design was used to determine what effects the new law had on admission characteristics and service utilization patterns of all those committed to Nebraska's three state hospitals. An immediate drop in involunta...... hiện toàn bộ
The developmentally handicapped witnessLaw and Human Behavior - Tập 18 - Trang 171-187 - 1994
Nitza B. Perlman, Kristine I. Ericson, Victoria M. Esses, Barry J. Isaacs
This study compared the ability of 30 developmentally handicapped (DH) and 30 nonhandicapped individuals in their ability to report on witnessed events. Participants watched a film clip and were asked to respond to five different types of questions about it. Misleading or leading questions were embedded in three of the question types Results indicated that in response to free recall and very gener...... hiện toàn bộ
Prisoners’ Positive Illusions of Their Post-Release SuccessLaw and Human Behavior - Tập 30 - Trang 631-647 - 2006
Mandeep K. Dhami, David R. Mandel, George Loewenstein, Peter Ayton
Prisoners’ forecasts of post-release success may have implications for how they respond to imprisonment, release, and parole decisions. We examined sentenced US and UK prisoners’ forecasts of recidivism, and how well UK prisoners believed they would fare compared to the average other prisoner. In both samples, forecasts of recidivism were unrealistically optimistic when compared to official statis...... hiện toàn bộ
Bạo lực và Bệnh tâm thần: Một Cách tiếp cận Phân tích Mới Dịch bởi AI Law and Human Behavior - Tập 31 Số 1 - Trang 23-31 - 2007
Lidz, Charles W., Banks, Steven, Simon, Lorna, Schubert, Carol, Mulvey, Edward P.
Các nghiên cứu thực nghiệm về bạo lực và bệnh tâm thần đã sử dụng nhiều phương pháp khác nhau. Các phương pháp tiên tiến hiện nay thu thập thông tin từ cả phỏng vấn đối tượng và phỏng vấn đồng thuộc cũng như hồ sơ chính thức. Thông thường, những nguồn thông tin này được coi là cộng dồn. Bất kỳ bản báo cáo nào về một sự cố bạo lực từ bất kỳ nguồn nào được coi là đúng sự thật và tất cả các sự cố đã ...... hiện toàn bộ
Toward an Empirical Approach to Evidentiary RulingLaw and Human Behavior - Tập 27 - Trang 661-684 - 2003
Deborah Davis, William C. Follette
This paper responds to criticisms/misconstruals of our measure of the maximum probative value of evidence (D. Davis & W. C. Follette, 2002), and our conclusions regarding the potentially prejudicial role of “intuitive profiling” evidence, including motive. We argue that R. D. Friedman and R. C. Park's (2003) criticisms and example cases are largely based on inappropriate violation of the presumpti...... hiện toàn bộ
Assessment and Management of Risk for Intimate Partner Violence by Police Officers Using the Spousal Assault Risk Assessment GuideLaw and Human Behavior - - 2011
Henrik Belfrage, Susanne Strand, Jennifer E. Storey, Andrea L. Gibas, P. Randall Kropp, Stephen D. Hart
Intimate partner violence (IPV) is a crime that is present in all countries, seriously impacts victims, and demands a great deal of time and resources from the criminal justice system. The current study examined the use of the Spousal Assault Risk Assessment Guide, 2nd ed. (SARA; Kropp, Hart, Webster, & Eaves, 1995), a structured professional judgment risk assessment and management tool for IPV, b...... hiện toàn bộ