Assessing Legal Risk

Assessing Juvenile Psychopathy: Developmental and Legal Implications

Psychopath. The word alone evokes powerful emotions and images. Attaching that label to a juvenile offender is a serious charge, and should be done so with caution, especially given that the standard assessment tools for psychopathy were originally developed for adults, not juveniles. As the MacArthur Research Network on Adolescent Development and Juvenile Justice has shown, and as the U.S. juv...

Assessing Legal Challenges on the Mobile Web

This paper aims at describing the future legal challenges related to information products and services on the Mobile World Wide Web. Using a few scenarios, we describe what the most essential characteristics of the future Mobile Web will be and how information products and services will be used on it. The scenarios are built using a systematic method. As the emerging problems are very complex, ...

Assessing Legal Challenges on the Mobile Internet

This article aims at describing the future legal challenges related to information products and services on the Mobile Internet and World Wide Web. Using a scenario-based methodology, we describe the most essential characteristics of the future Mobile Internet and how information products and services would be used on it. The scenarios are built using a systematic method. As the emerging proble...

Legal Risk, Legal Evidence and the Arithmetic of Criminal Justice

It is argued that the standard way that the criminal justice debate regarding the permissible extent of wrongful convictions is cast is fundamentally flawed. In particular, it is claimed that there is an inherent danger in focussing our attention in this debate on different ways of measuring the probabilistic likelihood of wrongful conviction and then evaluating whether these probabilities are ...

Assessing laws and legal authorities for public health emergency legal preparedness.