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A Sleeping Giant? The ENMOD Convention as a Limit on Intentional Environmental Harm in Armed Conflict and Beyond Am. J. Int. Law (IF 2.7) Pub Date : 2024-10-17 Joanna Jarose
This Article reinterprets the 1976 Convention on the Prohibition of Military or Any Other Hostile Use of Environmental Modification Techniques (ENMOD) to show how it might rationally strengthen protections for the environment against intentional damage by states, particularly during armed conflict. The Article applies the orthodox rules of treaty interpretation to analyze in depth the Convention text
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Neutrality and Governance in a Weaponized World Am. J. Int. Law (IF 2.7) Pub Date : 2024-10-17 J. Benton Heath
About a decade ago, the neural network of the international financial system underwent an identity crisis. Since its establishment in 1973, the Society for Worldwide Interbank Financial Telecommunication (Swift) had become the world's dominant system for transmitting information about financial transactions, handling up to 20 million messages per day across 212 jurisdictions. The Belgium-based company
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Institutional Anomie Theory and Country-Level Public Corruption Justice Quarterly (IF 2.6) Pub Date : 2024-10-14 Mateus R. Santos, Richard K. Moule Jr., Alexander Testa, Douglas B. Weiss
Public-sector corruption siphons trillions of dollars from the global economy and contributes to social instability. Institutional Anomie Theory, with its focus on the links between social institut...
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Historical Foundations of Green Developmental Policies: Divergent Trajectories in United States and France Regul. Gov. (IF 3.2) Pub Date : 2024-10-09 Ritwick Ghosh, Stephanie Barral, Fanny Guillet
In recent years, many countries have adopted biodiversity offset policies to internalize the ecological impacts of land developments. Although national policies share the general principle of equalizing ecological harm with gain, there is substantial variation across programs regarding the institutional forms governing offsetting. In this paper, we compare biodiversity governance in the United States
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Core funding and the performance of international organizations: Evidence from UNDP projects Regul. Gov. (IF 3.2) Pub Date : 2024-10-09 Mirko Heinzel, Bernhard Reinsberg, Giuseppe Zaccaria
Scholarship on the administration of international organizations (IOs) has extensively discussed how autonomy influences their performance. While some argue that autonomy increases performance through greater adaptability, others warn that it may increase the risk of agency slack. Authors typically distinguish between three types of performance: output, outcome, and impact performance. We focus on
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Integrating ecosocial policies through polycentric governance: A study of the green transformation of Danish vocational education and training Regul. Gov. (IF 3.2) Pub Date : 2024-10-08 Martin B. Carstensen, Christian Lyhne Ibsen, Ida Marie Nyland Jensen
How can polycentric governance promote the development of ecosocial policies within existing policy systems? Through a study of green reforms of Danish vocational education, the paper argues that polycentric governance institutions are particularly useful at engaging constituent actors in innovation and constructive collaboration over reforming education programs to integrate ecological goals into
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Trust in context: The impact of regulation on blockchain and DeFi Regul. Gov. (IF 3.2) Pub Date : 2024-10-07 Balazs Bodo, Primavera de Filippi
Trust is a key resource in financial transactions. Traditional financial institutions, and novel blockchain‐based decentralized financial (DeFi) services rely on fundamentally different sources of trust and confidence. The former relies on heavy regulation, trusted intermediaries, clear rules (and restrictions) on market competition, and long‐standing informal expectations on what banks and other financial
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Assessing the Gender-Neutral Claim of Self-Control and Offending: A Meta-Analysis Justice Quarterly (IF 2.6) Pub Date : 2024-10-04 Natasha Pusch
While low self-control is one of the strongest predictors of offending, scholars do not agree whether the theory is gendered or gender neutral. This study used hierarchal meta-analytic methods to t...
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A Machine Learning Approach to Analyzing Crime Concentration: The Case of New York City Justice Quarterly (IF 2.6) Pub Date : 2024-10-04 Keungoui Kim, Young-An Kim
Building upon prior work, we propose an alternative way to look at the pattern of spatial crime concentration and temporal stability of it. We first identify a high-crime cluster using the sample b...
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Informal governance and transnational access in world politics Regul. Gov. (IF 3.2) Pub Date : 2024-09-30 Theresa Squatrito, Thomas Sommerer
The governance turn in political research has led to increased attention to informal institutions. For scholars of international relations this has contributed to recent scholarship that reveals a notable growth in the number of informal intergovernmental organizations (IIGOs). Many aspects of IIGOs remain unknown, including whether they involve transnational actors (TNAs). Yet, whether IIGOs are open
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Disparate impact of risk assessment instruments: A systematic review. Law and Human Behavior (IF 2.4) Pub Date : 2024-09-30 Spencer G Lawson,Emma L Narkewicz,Gina M Vincent
OBJECTIVE One concern about the use of risk assessment instruments in legal decisions is the potential for disparate impact by race or ethnicity. This means that one racial or ethnic group will experience harsher legal outcomes than another because of higher or biased risk estimates. We conducted a systematic review of the literature to synthesize research examining the real-world impact of juvenile
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The Effects of 401(k) Vesting Schedules—in Numbers The Yale Law Journal (IF 5.2) Pub Date : 2024-09-27 Samantha J. Prince, Timothy G. Azizkhan, Cassidy R. Prince, Luke Gorman
In 2022, over 1.87 million Americans ceased employment before satisfying their employer’s 401(k) plan vesting schedule, causing them to forfeit nonvested employer contributions. This Essay uses data to demonstrate the effects of using vesting schedules and highlights companies who had the most affected workers or amassed significant forfeitures in 2022.
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Detecting criminal intent in social interactions: The influence of autism and theory of mind. Law and Human Behavior (IF 2.4) Pub Date : 2024-09-26 Zoe Michael,Neil Brewer
OBJECTIVE Defense attorneys sometimes suggest that social-cognitive difficulties render autistic individuals vulnerable to involvement in crime, often arguing that theory of mind (ToM) difficulties that undermine inferences about others' intentions underpin this vulnerability. We examined autistic adults' ability to respond adaptively to criminal intent during interactions and whether difficulties
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Essentialism and the criminal legal system. Law and Human Behavior (IF 2.4) Pub Date : 2024-09-23 Madeleine Millar,Colleen M Berryessa,Cynthia Willis-Esqueda,Jason A Cantone,Deborah Goldfarb,Melissa de Vel-Palumbo,Anthony D Perillo,Terrill O Taylor,Laurie T Becker
OBJECTIVE Existing literature has yet to conceptualize and consolidate research on psychological essentialism and its relation to the criminal legal system, particularly in terms of explaining how individuals with justice involvement have been and could be differentially impacted across contexts. This article explores essentialism in the criminal legal system, including its potential consequences for
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Degrees of freedom as a breeding ground for biases-A threat to forensic practice. Law and Human Behavior (IF 2.4) Pub Date : 2024-09-23 Aileen Oeberst,Verena Oberlader
OBJECTIVE Researcher-based degrees of freedom have been shown to contribute to low replication rates in science. That is, researchers' options within the process of designing and conducting empirical tests may increase the probability of false positive findings. The aim of this study was to transfer the concept of degrees of freedom to the practice of forensic-psychological assessment as it may likewise
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Decarbonization under geoeconomic distress? Energy shocks, carbon lock‐ins, and Germany's pathway toward net zero Regul. Gov. (IF 3.2) Pub Date : 2024-09-20 Milan Babić, Daniel Mertens
How can decarbonization governance endure under increasing geoeconomic distress? Global tensions threaten to divert financial and political resources from the green transition toward national security issues. However, we lack the analytical tools to assess decarbonization governance in this age of global rivalries. To address this gap, we develop an analytical framework to study the effects of geoeconomic
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Reducing biases in the criminal legal system: A perspective from expected utility. Law and Human Behavior (IF 2.4) Pub Date : 2024-09-19 Janice L Burke,Justice Healy,Yueran Yang
OBJECTIVE Racial biases exist in almost every aspect of the criminal legal system, resulting in disparities across all stages of legal procedures-before, during, and after a legal procedure. Building on expected utility theory, we propose an expected utility framework to organize and quantify racial disparities in legal procedures. HYPOTHESES Corresponding to the parameteres involved in estimating
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Confirmatory information seeking is robust in psychologists' diagnostic reasoning. Law and Human Behavior (IF 2.4) Pub Date : 2024-09-19 Tess M S Neal,Nina MacLean,Robert D Morgan,Daniel C Murrie
OBJECTIVE Across two experiments, we examined three cognitive biases (order effects, context effects, confirmatory bias) in licensed psychologists' diagnostic reasoning. HYPOTHESES Our main prediction was that psychologist-participants would seek confirming versus disconfirming information after forming an initial diagnostic hypothesis, even given multiple opportunities to seek new information in the
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Governing the European Union's recovery and resilience facility: National ownership and performance‐based financing in theory and practice Regul. Gov. (IF 3.2) Pub Date : 2024-09-17 Jonathan Zeitlin, David Bokhorst, Edgars Eihmanis
The Recovery and Resilience Facility (RRF) adopted in response to the COVID‐19 pandemic marks an important departure in European Union (EU) governance, as it introduces an innovative “demand‐driven, performance‐based” model aimed at overcoming the limitations of past policies seeking to promote national reforms. In this study, we set out the theoretical assumptions underlying the RRF governance model
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Inequality threat increases laypeople's, but not judges', acceptance of algorithmic decision making in court. Law and Human Behavior (IF 2.4) Pub Date : 2024-09-12 Jonas Ludwig,Paul-Michael Heineck,Marie-Theres Hess,Eleni Kremeti,Max Tauschhuber,Eric Hilgendorf,Roland Deutsch
OBJECTIVE Algorithmic decision making (ADM) takes on increasingly complex tasks in the criminal justice system. Whereas new developments in machine learning could help to improve the quality of judicial decisions, there are legal and ethical concerns that thwart the widespread use of algorithms. Against the backdrop of current efforts to promote the digitization of the German judicial system, this
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Norms, institutions, and digital veils of uncertainty—Do network protocols need trust anyway? Regul. Gov. (IF 3.2) Pub Date : 2024-09-11 Eric Alston
In large and complex human groups, social rules reduce individuals' uncertainty about their own choice set, including through these rules' simultaneous influence on the choice set of other individuals. But uncertainty varies as to the extent to which it is knowable and quantifiable ex ante. Therefore, different classes of social rules deal with the future uncertainty of individuals' conduct in structurally
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Tackling toxins: Case studies of industrial pollutants and implications for climate policy Regul. Gov. (IF 3.2) Pub Date : 2024-09-10 Tim Bartley, Malcolm Fairbrother
As scholars race to address the climate crisis, they have often treated the problem as sui generis and have only rarely sought to learn from prior efforts to make industrial operations greener. In this paper, we consider what can be learned from other shifts away from polluting substances. Drawing on literatures on corporate regulatory strategies and evolving regulatory interactions, we argue for a
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Effects of Victim Race on Police Arrests for Hate Crimes Justice Quarterly (IF 2.6) Pub Date : 2024-09-10 SeungHoon Han, Inseo Son
Despite significant public concern, previous research on hate crimes has been limited and inconclusive regarding whether police discriminate against racial minority victims when clearing hate crime...
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Procedural constraints and regulatory ossification in the US states Regul. Gov. (IF 3.2) Pub Date : 2024-09-07 Jason Webb Yackee, Susan Webb Yackee
Scholars of the US regulatory process routinely assert that rulemaking is “ossified”—that it has become so encumbered with procedural constraints that it is difficult for agencies to issue socially desirable regulations. Yet, this claim has rarely been subject to empirical testing, and this is particularly true at the sub‐federal (i.e., US state) level. But the same factors that allegedly cause ossification
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Digitalization and the green transition: Different challenges, same policy responses? Regul. Gov. (IF 3.2) Pub Date : 2024-09-04 Marius R. Busemeyer, Sophia Stutzmann, Tobias Tober
How do citizens perceive labor market risks related to digitalization and the green transition, and how do these risk perceptions translate into preferences for social policies? We address these questions in this paper by studying the policy preferences of individual workers on how governments should deal with the two labor market challenges of digitalization and the green transition. Employing novel
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Driving While Broke: The Role of Class Signals in Police Discretion Justice Quarterly (IF 2.6) Pub Date : 2024-09-04 Jedidiah L. Knode, Travis M. Carter, Scott E. Wolfe
There is ongoing debate over the latitude of discretion police officers have when conducting stops and searches. While necessary due to resource limitations and need for individualized justice, dis...
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To sandbox or not to sandbox? Diverging strategies of regulatory responses to FinTech Regul. Gov. (IF 3.2) Pub Date : 2024-09-03 Ringa Raudla, Egert Juuse, Vytautas Kuokštis, Aleksandrs Cepilovs, Vytenis Cipinys, Matti Ylönen
A regulatory sandbox is an emerging tool for addressing the challenges posed by the FinTech industry, but countries have embraced it to varying degrees. There is a need to systematically examine the question: Which factors explain the diverging trajectories in countries' decision to use (or not use) this instrument? This paper examines the adoption of regulatory sandboxes for FinTech in the Baltic
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God and Group: The Religious Ecology of Hate Crimes Against Jews and Muslims in the United States Justice Quarterly (IF 2.6) Pub Date : 2024-08-29 Christopher H. Seto
In the United States, hate crimes that are motivated by religious bias disproportionately impact minoritized religious groups. This study investigates religious ecological predictors of hate crimes...
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Suspect race affects defense attorney evaluations of preidentification evidence. Law and Human Behavior (IF 2.4) Pub Date : 2024-08-29 Jacqueline Katzman,Margaret Bull Kovera
OBJECTIVE When an officer places a suspect in an identification procedure and the witness identifies the suspect, it falls on attorneys to make decisions that reflect the strength of that identification. The factor that most affects the strength of identification evidence is the likelihood that the suspect is guilty before being subjected to the procedure, which scholars refer to as the prior probability
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An audit study of barriers to mental health treatment for wrongly incarcerated people. Law and Human Behavior (IF 2.4) Pub Date : 2024-08-26 Jeff Kukucka,Kateryn Reyes-Fuentes,Christina M Dardis
OBJECTIVE People who have been wrongly incarcerated report exceptionally poor mental health, and despite having been exonerated, they face discrimination similar to other formerly incarcerated people when seeking housing and employment opportunities. The current audit study was designed to test whether exonerees likewise face discrimination when seeking mental health treatment. HYPOTHESES Therapists
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Self‐enforcing path dependent trajectories? A comparison of the implementation of the EU energy packages in Germany and the Netherlands Regul. Gov. (IF 3.2) Pub Date : 2024-08-22 Simon Fink, Eva Ruffing, Luisa Maschlanka, Hermann Lüken genannt Klaßen
Since the 1990s, the EU has attempted to create a common electricity market. However, EU legislators are unsatisfied by the results. We argue that differentiated implementation of directives over time creates path dependencies that entrench national differences. The actor constellation of parties and incumbent operators at the beginning of the liberalization path determines how well countries implement
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From a cultural to a distributive issue: Public climate action as a new field for comparative political economy Regul. Gov. (IF 3.2) Pub Date : 2024-08-22 Hanna Schwander, Jonas Fischer
This article reviews recent insights from the blooming Comparative Political Economy (CPE) literature on climate change with the aim to demonstrate the importance of integrating climate change into the field of CPE and to highlight the contributions of CPE to our understanding of the social and political obstacles to effective climate policies. In addition, we advance two key points to bring the CPE
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Assessment of the Dimensionality and Comparability in Legal Cynicism Measurement Justice Quarterly (IF 2.6) Pub Date : 2024-08-22 Daniel Seddig
Legal cynicism refers to a general contempt of people toward the law and legal authorities. Gifford and Reisig proposed a scale to measure the construct and provided evidence for its multidimension...
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Measuring citizen trust in regulatory agencies: A systematic review and ways forward Regul. Gov. (IF 3.2) Pub Date : 2024-08-19 Libby Maman, Lauren Fahy, Stephan Grimmelikhuijsen, Moritz Kappler
Citizen trust in regulatory agencies is essential for the functioning of society and markets. Trust in regulatory agencies promotes compliance and strengthens trust in regulated sectors. Despite its importance, there is no systematic study on how trust is in this context can be measured best. In response, this article presents findings of a systematic review of measures of trust in regulatory contexts
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Navigating financial cycles: Economic growth, bureaucratic autonomy, and regulatory governance in emerging markets Regul. Gov. (IF 3.2) Pub Date : 2024-08-19 M. Kerem Coban, Fulya Apaydin
Political decisions over economic growth policies influence the degree of bureaucratic autonomy and regulatory governance dynamics. Yet, our understanding of these processes in the Global South is somewhat limited. The article studies the post‐Global Financial Crisis period and relies on elite interviews and secondary sources from Turkey. It problematizes how an economic growth model dependent on foreign
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Implicit bias training for police: Evaluating impacts on enforcement disparities. Law and Human Behavior (IF 2.4) Pub Date : 2024-08-12 Robert E Worden,Cynthia J Najdowski,Sarah J McLean,Kenan M Worden,Nicholas Corsaro,Hannah Cochran,Robin S Engel
OBJECTIVE The purpose of this study was to estimate the behavioral impacts of training police officers in implicit bias awareness and management. HYPOTHESES Training police in implicit bias reduces racial and ethnic disparities in stops, arrests, summonses, frisks, searches, and/or use of force. METHOD A cluster randomized controlled trial using the stepped wedge design was applied to 14,471 officers
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Predictive bias in pretrial risk assessment: Application of the Public Safety Assessment in a Native American population. Law and Human Behavior (IF 2.4) Pub Date : 2024-08-12 Samantha A Zottola,Kamiya Stewart,Violette Cloud,Liz Hassett,Sarah L Desmarais
OBJECTIVE Native Americans are vastly overrepresented in U.S. jails and people in rural communities face unique barriers (e.g., limited public transportation and services) that may impact how well pretrial risk assessments predict outcomes. Yet, these populations are understudied in the literature examining the predictive validity and, more importantly, the potential predictive bias of pretrial risk
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Do risk measure scores and diagnoses predict evaluator opinions in sexually violent predator cases? It depends on the evaluator. Law and Human Behavior (IF 2.4) Pub Date : 2024-08-12 Marcus T Boccaccini,Daniel C Murrie,Paige B Harris
OBJECTIVE Field research increasingly reveals that forensic evaluators are not interchangeable. Instead, they tend to differ in their patterns of forensic opinions, in ways that likely reflect something about themselves, not just the persons evaluated. This study used data from sexually violent predator (SVP) evaluations to examine whether evaluator differences in making intermediate decisions (e.g
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Never Going to Let You Down: Preventing Predictive Shrinkage via the STRONG-R Assessment Method Justice Quarterly (IF 2.6) Pub Date : 2024-08-07 Zachary Hamilton, Alex Kigerl, Baylee Allen, John Ursino, Amber Krushas
Risk-needs assessments (RNAs) are an evidence-based practice used by practitioners to assign supervision and programming. While foundational to day-to-day practices, these tools are typically appli...
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Shining a Light on Racial Privilege: An Empirical Examination of the Role of Whiteness in Willingness to Commit Elite White-Collar Crime Justice Quarterly (IF 2.6) Pub Date : 2024-08-06 Melissa Rorie, Tracy Sohoni, Shon Reed
A significant amount of criminological research has focused on explaining the overrepresentation of Black individuals in crime, attributing them with disproportionate criminal involvement. However,...
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Interviewing and interrogation practices and beliefs, 20 years later: A national self-report survey of American police. Law and Human Behavior (IF 2.4) Pub Date : 2024-08-05 Laure Brimbal,Sean Patrick Roche,M Hunter Martaindale
OBJECTIVE This survey examined current law enforcement beliefs and practices about interviewing and interrogation to gauge whether they have evolved given the research and training developed over the past 20 years. HYPOTHESES We hypothesized that police beliefs and practices would have evolved along with research findings over the past 20 years. METHOD We surveyed 526 law enforcement officers about
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Dementia and competency to stand trial in the United States: A case law review. Law and Human Behavior (IF 2.4) Pub Date : 2024-08-01 Dana R Miller,Casey LaDuke
OBJECTIVE Competency to stand trial (CST) is foundational to the U.S. criminal legal system. Dementia is increasingly prevalent in the United States, and older adults are becoming involved with the U.S. criminal legal system at unprecedented rates, which carries significant implications for legal professionals and clinicians involved in CST cases. Unfortunately, CST research to date has largely excluded
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Improving graduate education in legal psychology: Early career psychologists' recommendations on diversity, debt, and applying legal psychology in the real world. Law and Human Behavior (IF 2.4) Pub Date : 2024-08-01 Jason A Cantone,Apryl A Alexander,Erika N Fountain,Jennifer L Woolard,Lora M Levett
OBJECTIVE This article reviews how training programs and professional organizations can work together to better prepare legal psychology graduate students and early career professionals (ECPs) for their first postgraduate careers. METHOD In 2019, the American Psychology-Law Society released a report exploring the unique needs of ECPs in the field of legal psychology. The surveyed ECPs overwhelmingly
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Emotion regulation reduces victim blaming of vulnerable sex trafficking survivors. Law and Human Behavior (IF 2.4) Pub Date : 2024-08-01 Richard L Wiener,Samantha M Wiener,Rachel Haselow,Brooke McBride,Kayla Sircy
OBJECTIVE This research applied emotion regulation to negative emotions felt toward a sex trafficking victim so that judgments were made to offer her services rather than to favor her arrest for prostitution. HYPOTHESES We predicted that participants would favor police not arresting a trafficking survivor for prostitution when she was vulnerable (Hypothesis 1) or she showed no sex work history (Hypothesis
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Virginia Alford plea-takers experience harsher outcomes than traditional plea-takers. Law and Human Behavior (IF 2.4) Pub Date : 2024-08-01 Amy Dezember,Allison D Redlich
OBJECTIVE Alford pleas allow defendants to profess innocence while simultaneously pleading guilty. In Study 1, we addressed two research questions: (1) Does the case processing length in Alford plea cases differ from traditional guilty plea cases? and (2) Do the sentencing outcomes (i.e., length of sentence, reduction in sentence, incarceration) in Alford plea cases differ from traditional guilty plea
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Trusting organizational law Regul. Gov. (IF 3.2) Pub Date : 2024-07-30 Shawn Bayern
Decentralized governance technologies like blockchains are often proposed as substitutes for private legal arrangements like those provided by company law or organizational law more generally. In established legal systems in developed countries, the costs of implementing such algorithmic mechanisms are likely to be greater than the agency or other costs that come from selecting and trusting an existing
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Trust platforms: The digitalization of corporate governance and the transformation of trust in polycentric space Regul. Gov. (IF 3.2) Pub Date : 2024-07-25 Larry Catá Backer
This contribution considers the revolution in the concept and practice of trust in corporate governance that first moved from trust in “people” to trust in “compliance,” setting the stage for the digitization of trust measures and the digitalization of compliance. Part One examines the fundamental challenge, one that arises from the near simultaneous shift in cultural expectations about trust from
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From de jure to de facto transparency: Analyzing the compliance gap in light of freedom of information laws Regul. Gov. (IF 3.2) Pub Date : 2024-07-24 Julia Trautendorfer, Lisa Hohensinn, Dennis Hilgers
Freedom of information (FOI) laws empower citizens to access public information from public organizations, enhancing government transparency and accountability. Previous studies have evaluated government transparency and FOI compliance based on the proactive release of information and governments' responses to citizens' requests. This study extends prior research by focusing on regulatory compliance
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Public Perceptions of Gangs: An Experimental Test of Nomenclature, Race/Ethnicity, Violence, and Organization Justice Quarterly (IF 2.6) Pub Date : 2024-07-17 James A. Densley, David C. Pyrooz, Jose Antonio Sanchez
This study examines how the public views gangs, surveying 1,000 US adults using a vignette of a teenage collective. Through a factorial design, elements crucial to gang definition debates were rand...
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Fines and Fees in Flux: Exploring Changes in Municipal Violation Sentencing after Court Reform Justice Quarterly (IF 2.6) Pub Date : 2024-07-15 Kristina J. Thompson, Paige E. Vaughn, Andrea Giuffre, Beth M. Huebner
Monetary sanctions are a ubiquitous part of punishment in the criminal legal system. In recent years, highly publicized events have drawn attention to monetary sanctions at the intersection of pove...
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Mapping the relationship between regulation and innovation from an interdisciplinary perspective: A critical systematic review of the literature Regul. Gov. (IF 3.2) Pub Date : 2024-07-16 Bruno Queiroz Cunha, Flavia Donadelli
A considerable amount of work has focused on “regulatory innovation” in the social sciences. This scholarship has conceptually defined certain types of regulatory changes as innovations and explored how regulation, as a policy instrument, alters the pace of technological innovation. More recently, a renewed interest for policy mixes and more dynamism in industrial innovation policies around the world
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The “Reasonableness Divide”: Comparing Community Members’ Assessments of Force Reasonableness to Legal Standards Justice Quarterly (IF 2.6) Pub Date : 2024-07-15 Dustin A. Richardson, Lorie A. Fridell
Headlines frequently call attention to the frustrations that many in the community express when members of law enforcement use force. Some believe that the police frequently use excessive force, an...
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Problem exposure and problem solving: The impact of regulatory regimes on citizens' trust in regulated sectors Regul. Gov. (IF 3.2) Pub Date : 2024-07-06 Yue Guo, Tianhao Zhai, Hao Huang, Luozhong Wang
A wealth of studies has discussed the impact of different regulatory regimes on firms, but have ignored the differences in citizens' attitudes toward firms in different regulatory regimes. Exploring these attitudes is crucial to understanding the micro‐effects of regulatory regimes and market developments. This study aims to investigates the impact of regulatory regimes on citizens' trust in regulated
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Policy growth and maintenance in comparative perspective Regul. Gov. (IF 3.2) Pub Date : 2024-07-05 Christoph Knill, Christina Steinbacher, Yves Steinebach, Philipp Trein
Policy growth comes with multiple challenges for policy implementation. Congested policy portfolios increase the likelihood of interactions and contradictions between different policy objectives and instruments. Moreover, policy growth can lead to difficulties during implementation when many public and private organizations must cooperate and manage increasing complexity and overlapping responsibilities
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Introduction to the Special Issue on State and Local Governance The Yale Law Journal (IF 5.2) Pub Date : 2024-06-30 Dena M. Shata
Many are well-acquainted with Justice Brandeis’s metaphor that states serve as laboratories o…
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Lessons from My Mentor, Justice Sandra Day O’Connor The Yale Law Journal (IF 5.2) Pub Date : 2024-06-30 Michelle Friedland
author. Circuit Judge, United States Court of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit; Law Clerk for Just…
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The Local Lawmaking Loophole The Yale Law Journal (IF 5.2) Pub Date : 2024-06-30 Daniel B. Rosenbaum
This Article illustrates how contracts between local governments—interlocal agreements (ILAs)—play a powerful lawmaking function yet lack democratic accountability. It traces the problem to state statutory schemes, where checks designed to promote transparency are ignored by state officials and courts, enabling undemocratic local power by virtue of state silence.
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The Subdivided City The Yale Law Journal (IF 5.2) Pub Date : 2024-06-30 Clayton P. Gillette
City subunits may facilitate municipal objectives of service provision and democratic governance. Different types of subunits risk various conflicts with their constituents and the city that hosts them. This Feature analyzes sources of those conflicts and reforms to address them, and argues for city deference to subunits in limited cases.