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Social science in court
(Kluwer Academic Publishers-Plenum Publishers; Plenum Publishing Corporation ; Springer Science+Business Media, 1986-06)
This article discusses the role of social science in legal proceedings with special attention to the ethical situation of the expert psychologist asked to testify about the reliability of an eyewitness identification. It ...
Custody and Treatment in Juvenile Institutions
(Sage Publications, 1964)
Correctional institutions have two purposes—custody and rehabilitation. This paper attempts to analyze the organizational patterns and problems of juvenile correctional institutions in regard to their goals. The findings ...
Trial-type ceremonies and defendant behavior
(Kluwer Academic Publishers-Plenum Publishers; Plenum Publishing Corporation ; Springer Science+Business Media, 1977-12)
This study uses hearing transcripts to examine judge-defendant interaction in a trial-type setting. The setting is a public housing eviction hearing; judges are eviction board members and defendants are tenants facing ...