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Kränkning och upprättelse. En rättssociologisk studie av kränkningsersättning...
The thesis takes its starting point in the question of how damages for violation of crime is determined. This type of non-pecuniary damages to crime victims has a fundamental... -
Kränkning och upprättelse. En rättssociologisk studie av kränkningsersättning...
The thesis takes its starting point in the question of how damages for violation of crime is determined. This type of non-pecuniary damages to crime victims has a fundamental... -
Kränkning och upprättelse. En rättssociologisk studie av kränkningsersättning...
The thesis takes its starting point in the question of how damages for violation of crime is determined. This type of non-pecuniary damages to crime victims has a fundamental... -
Meta- und Abrufdaten der Insolvenzbekanntmachungen von Februar 2018 bis Janua...
Im Rahmen eines Forschungsprojekts wurde der Umgang mit Zu- und Abschläge bei der Vergütungsfestsetzung in Insolvenzverfahren empirisch untersucht. Dazu sollten... -
Low-Resource Deontic Modality Classification in the EU Legislation
Tackles the issue of low resource deontic modality classification for diverse legal domains in the EU legilslation. From 200 provisions extracted from EUR-Lex, the dataset... -
Judging offenders: the role of observers' emotions
This research will conduct two studies. In study one participants' trait empathy will be assessed and then state empathy will be induced in half the sample. The other half will... -
Is Jurors' reasoning 'beyond reasonable doubt'? Examining juror decision maki...
DNA evidence can place a suspect at a crime scene if their DNA profile matches the profile derived from crime scene DNA samples. It is presented as an error rate, the random... -
Youth offending and youth transitions: The influence of capital on desistance...
Crime tends to be a temporary, age-limited phenomenon, with the so-called 'age-crime curve' demonstrating that youthful offending starts in the mid-teens, peaks at 18 for both... -
Understanding the tipping point of urban conflict: Violence, cities, and pove...
Urban violence is an increasingly significant global phenomenon. Over the past few years, a conventional wisdom has emerged within policy and research circles associating it... -
The globalisation of rendition and secret detention
This project asks how extraordinary rendition and secret detention of terror suspects has developed and whether they are US-led phenomena. Sources will include as yet unanalysed... -
Desistance knowledge exchange project
This project aims to support and advance an exchange of knowledge about 'desistance' (ie how and why people stop offending) between academics, policy makers, practitioners,... -
The effects of liking bias on eyewitness identifications
Eyewitness identification evidence is less reliable than it could be. This project investigates one potential source of eyewitness error - a witness' spontaneous tendency to... -
Sexualisation, nuisance and safety: Sexual Entertainment Venues and the manag...
In the last decade, around 300 dedicated clubs have opened in England and Wales where the live display of nudity is regularly offered. Such venues have been accused of offering... -
The costs of imprisonment: A longitudinal study
The 1922 Prison System Enquiry Committee Report said that: 'In order to judge our Prison system rightly it is necessary to know what kind of people become prisoners... How many... -
Special measures in rape trials: Exploring the impact of screens, ;live links...
In England and Wales, adult rape complainants appearing in court may be afforded special measures protection in the form of screens, live links and the use of video recorded... -
Constructing facial composites: Increasing the forensic relevance of laborato...
Witnesses to and victims of serious crime are often asked by the police to create a visual likeness of an offender using a computerised composite system. The witness provides a... -
Tracking Vulnerability and Resilience: Gambling Careers in the Criminal Justi...
Internationally, incarcerated offenders are known to have higher rates of problem gambling with studies finding that up to one third of prisoners may be medium or high risk... -
Localising international law: Examining the outreach strategies of the war cr...
This research explores the relationship between war crimes courts and victim communities. This will be achieved through an examination of the public outreach strategies of the... -
The contractual governance of drug users
This study will investigate the growing phenomenon of the use of agreements that resemble contracts as a technique for governing the conduct of drug users in treatment. Such... -
Public perceptions of threat in Britain: Security in an age of austerity
No longer are British interests at home and abroad considered to be under threat from one particular state, but rather from a complex web of threats. Yet, despite a tripling of...