Once widely spread in the Dinaric Mountains part of Balkan Peninsula swearing to virginity was a social and cultural custom recorded among all groups inhabiting area. In absence capable adult man household, daughter would take over his role by ‘becoming’ man. The standard explanation is that function this practice enabling continuation household’s economic, social, religious activities. We argu...

Although fingerprint experts have presented evidence in criminal courts for more than a century, there have been few scientific investigations of the human capacity to discriminate these patterns. A recent latent print matching experiment shows that qualified, court-practicing fingerprint experts are exceedingly accurate (and more conservative) compared with novices, but they do make errors. He...

By age 3, children track a speaker's record of past accuracy and use it as a cue to current reliability. Two experiments (N=95 children) explored whether preschoolers' judgements about, and trust in, the accuracy of a previously reliable informant extend to other members of the informant's group. In Experiment 1, both 3- and 4-year-olds consistently judged an animated character who was associat...

in the civil procedure act, local inquiry is explained in a chapter separate from testimony, but for similarity of these two proofs, connection of them and criterion of separating them is disputable. in this article, we will study in one portion the role of witness and testimony conditions and in other portion, the role of number, sexuality, locality and ceremonies in separating of these proofs...

compared to experimental and human sciences, law has never been productive but it has always utilized the results and information obtained through other sciences, psychology in particular. therefore, new psychological findings about memory and age could both and must be taken into account in law as concerns interpretation and making judgment. psychological findings show judges rely on the testi...

Although there is some existing empirical research on job satisfaction and working conditions of court interpreters, little known about specific stress factors inherent in the profession a sw...