9 research outputs found
An Evaluation of Mental Health Expert Assistance Provided to Indigent Criminal Defendants: Organization, Administration, and Fiscal Management
Transfer of training following discrimination learning in a discrete trial situation
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A Treasure Trove of Information for Justice Reform
This article is a review of European Judicial Systems – Edition 2014 (2012 Data): Efficiency and Quality of Justice, European Commission for the Efficiency of Justice, available online in full and summary versions at www.coe.int/cepej
The Solution Economy: Getting Everybody Into the Act
This article is a review of William D. Eggers and Paul Macmillan book, The Solution Revolution: How Business, Government, and Social Enterprises Are Teaming Up to Solve Society’s Toughest Problems (Boston, MA: Harvard Business Review Press, 2013, 292 pages)
Increasing mentally retarded adolescents' verbalizations about current events
The effects of antecedent and consequent events on the verbal behavior of three institutionalized mentally retarded adolescents were examined. Verbal statements, related to current national and international events, were recorded after exposures to television news programs. The study examined the accuracy of verbalizations as a function of: (1) exposures to television news presentations in massed (i.e., viewing the entire news program before an opportunity to describe it) versus distributed from (i.e., viewing each news item separately with each followed by an opportunity to describe it), and (2) contingent tokens and social praise for correct verbal responses (i.e., statements corresponding to news items presented). Both the temporal distribution of news presentations and the reinforcement procedures improved the accuracy of verbal statements emitted by the subjects