In this article, we review a growing empirical literature on the effectiveness and fairness of US pretrial system discuss its policy implications. Despite importance stage criminal legal process, researchers have only recently begun to explore how balances individual rights public interests. We describe challenges that prevented progress in area recent work has made use new data sources quasi-e...

The article reveals the essence of organizational and legal basis activity pretrial investigation bodies. scientific conclusions regarding pre-trial bodies were analyzed. main areas research scientists who at various stages engaged in study problems related to general characteristics foundations studied. It is substantiated that principles activities determine dynamics implementation goals thes...

Background RCTs in surgery can be difficult to design, meaning pretrial feasibility work is necessary. This may involve surveying views of surgeons; however, response rates can be poor and findings unrepresentative. An alternative realtime data collection may be challenging in the operating theatre environment. Recently, trainee surgeons have formed ‘research collaboratives’ to undertake multi-...

Title of Thesis: TO DETAIN OR NOT TO DETAIN? USING PROPENSITY SCORES TO EXAMINE THE RELATIONSHIP BETWEEN PRETRIAL DETENTION AND CONVICTION Jacqueline Lee, Master of Arts, 2014 Thesis directed by: Associate Professor Brian Johnson, Department of Criminology and Criminal Justice Scholars have long known that individuals who are detained prior to their sentencing fare worse in the criminal justice...

Homicide by women has attracted serious attention from a variety of professionals including psychiatrists, lawyers, and criminologists. Although a survey of the literature suggests that homicide usually results from a single impulsive act by women who are reacting to overwhelming interpersonal conflict within the family, I several investigators have postulated that homicidal women suffer from s...

The extent to which protein synthesis is involved in working memory was investigated with the protein synthesis inhibitor anisomycin (ANI). Rats were trained to perform accurately on a 12-arm radial maze when delays of 240 min were interposed between choice 6 and choice 7. Bilateral hippocampal cannulas were then implanted. Accuracy on choices 7-12 was studied when ANI or saline was injected ei...

In this paper, we examine the economics of Rule 408 of the Federal Rules of Evidence, whereby the negotiation processes at the pretrial stage are made inadmissible to prove the amount of liability. It is asserted that under Rule 408 a settlement offer is less inclined to be rejected since the judge is expected to make a lower award given the signal he observes. Also, we derive a sufficient cond...