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    • Estimating Characteristics of the Foreign-Born
    Authors: Status, Legal; Judson, Dean H; Swanson, David A.;  Advisor: -;  Co-Author: - (2011)

    This brief represents a comprehensive review of methods for estimating characteristics of the foreign-born population in the United States, specifically oriented toward characteristics by legal status. A variety of methods have been proffered over the past many decades, in a large variety of venues; this work brings them together, attempts to impart some order on the definition of “legal status,” and describes strengths and deficiencies both in methods and in data. The authors have a combined 50 years of experience in both demographic and statistical methodology.
    • Psychological Expertise in Court (Psychology, Crime and Law)
    Authors: Krauss, Daniel A.; Lieberman, Joel D.;  Advisor: -;  Co-Author: - (2009)

    Expertise in Court: Perspectives on Testimony is the second of a two-volume set on the Psychology of the Courtroom. The authors, a renowned group of psychology and legal scholars, offer definitive coverage of the use of psychological expert testimony and evidence in a variety of legal contexts. They explore the controversies that surround it, from questions of its admissibility to its effects on eventual juror decisions. A wide range of topics are covered including system and estimator variables in eyewitness identification, expert testimony on psychological syndromes, the insanity defence and sexual harassment, how child sexual abuse is used by the courts, and recent research on false confessions. They also provide a comparative analysis exploring how different types of psychologic...
    • Chinese Business Law
    Authors: Yu, Danling;  Advisor: -;  Co-Author: - (2019)

    1 Corporate Law; 2 Foreign Investment Law; 3 Securities Law; Appendix I: The Corporation Law of the People’s Republic of China (2013 Amendment) 135 Appendix II: The Law of the People’s Republic of China on Sino-foreign Equity Joint Ventures (2016 Amendment) 189 Appendix III: The Securities Law of the People’s Republic of China (2014 Amendment)
    • Juvenile Justice Reform and Policy convergence in the New Vietnam
    Authors: Cox, Pamela;  Advisor: -;  Co-Author: - (2010)

    This article analyses juvenile justice reform in Vietnam and suggests how this connects with key transformations in wider Vietnamese cultures of control. It offers a grounded investigation of themes raised in recent discussions of policy transfer in the global criminal justice field. It concurs with others that global processes of policy convergence have their local limits, using Vietnamese examples to illustrate where this convergence comes about in practice and where it does not. It explores efforts to professionalize existing community justice practices through a discussion of perceived needs for ‘training’ and for the expansion of ‘counselling’. In doing so, it aims to show how justice practices that might be called ‘neo-welfarist’ are emerging in one of East Asia’s most remarka...