The philosophical underpinnings of youth courts rest on the notion that youths are less culpable and more reformable than adults. Ideally, when sentencing youth crime, some scholars argue that judges should engage youthful offenders in moral communication to elicit change. But do they? What more generally do judges say to the youths? This paper analyzes the frequency and content of judicial cen...

This Essay explores an incongruity in the allocation and exercise of two different kinds of judicial discretion held by the Chief Justice of the United States. The paradigmatic type of discretionary authority that Article III judges (including the Chief Justice) possess is expressed through the mode of adjudication, and as such is constrained in important ways by procedural forms that accompany...

The "wisdom of the crowds" refers to the ability of statistical aggregates based on multiple opinions to outperform individuals, including experts, in various prediction and estimation tasks. For example, crowds have been shown to be effective at forecasting outcomes of future events. We seek to improve the quality of such aggregates by eliminating poor performing individuals, if we can identif...

PURPOSE The purpose of this paper is to explore how judges perceive High Functioning Autistic Spectrum Disorders (hfASDs) and the disorders' effects on an offender's ability to formulate criminal intent and control behaviour. DESIGN/METHODOLOGY/APPROACH Semi-structured interviews on topics related to offenders with hfASDs were conducted with 21 California Superior Court Judges. A coding schem...

Recent claims that people have no insight into the influences on their own beliefs, decisions, and behavior are overstated. In our research 96 judges watched 50 short interviews and rated the interviewees' intelligence, friendliness, or deceptiveness. They later estimated how the interviewees' characteristics had influenced their judgments. The correlation of the interviewees' characteristics w...

The relation between narcissism and other-derogation has been examined primarily in the context of ego threat. In three studies, we investigated whether narcissistic individuals derogate others in the absence of ego threat. In Study 1, 79 judges watched four videotaped dyadic interactions and rated the personality of the same four people. In Study 2, 66 judges rated the personality of a friend....

THE NARRATIVE OF Judges 9 presents some of the more intriguing puzzles of the early Deuteronomistic History, largely because it is so comprehensive of its subjecL It stands apart, for a variety of reasons, from the Gideon epic (Judges 6-8) and histories of salvation which precede, and from the list of minor judges (IO:l-5; 12:7-15) and Jephthah cycle (10:6-12:6) which follow. Scholars have long...

MORE than a decade ago, Lester R. Ford, Jr. published a mathematical procedure for combining multiple sets of partially ordered data (Ford, 1957). Although this procedure has received little attention from social scientists, it solves a methodological problem which is not uncommon in some fields of educational and psychological research. Furthermore, it permits certain flexibilities in the way ...

Psychopathic disorders are taking an important part in judge sentencing, especially in Canada. First, we will see how this phenomenon can be illustrated by the high proportion of psychopath offenders incarcerated in North American prisons. Many decisions in Canadians courtrooms seem to point out that psychopathy is often used as a strong argument by the judges to preserve public safety. The fac...

Two studies were conducted to determine how real felony court judges decide the amount of bail to set. In the first, the judges were presented with fictitious case histories containing the relevant information in a factorial design. In the second, multiple regression techniques were used to examine the impact of different kinds of information on decisions made by judges in actual bail hearings....