Death Penalty Research in Nebraska: How Do Judges and Juries Reach Penalty Decisions?

I. Introduction . . . . . 757 II. Aggravating Factors as Predictors of the Death Sentence Outcomes . . . . . 764 III. Number of Aggravating Factors, Mitigation, and Predicting Death Sentences . . . . . 768 IV. Socioeconomic Status of Victims and Sentence Outcomes . . . . . 772 V. Minorities Advancing to the Penalty Phase in Capital Cases . . . . . 773 VI. Conclusion . . . . . 77

Death Penalty Research in Nebraska: How Do Judges and Juries Reach Penalty Decisions?

I. Introduction . . . . . 757 II. Aggravating Factors as Predictors of the Death Sentence Outcomes . . . . . 764 III. Number of Aggravating Factors, Mitigation, and Predicting Death Sentences . . . . . 768 IV. Socioeconomic Status of Victims and Sentence Outcomes . . . . . 772 V. Minorities Advancing to the Penalty Phase in Capital Cases . . . . . 773 VI. Conclusion . . . . . 77

Prosecutorial misconduct in death penalty cases: The U.S. Supreme Court rules that the state may not suppress evidence that is material to guilt or punishment

n April of 1980, police found the body of Richard Whitehead outside a small town in eastern Texas. Witnesses told police that they had seen Delma Banks in Whitehead\u27s automobile several days earlier and had heard gunshots early in the morning shortly after the sighting. Informant Robert Farr told police that Banks was traveling back to his home in eastern Texas from Dallas, where he had visited Charles Cook, an associate of his, to secure a weapon. The sheriff stopped Banks\u27 car and found a handgun. The sheriff then retrieved a second weapon from Mr. Cook\u27s home and determined that it was the gun used in the Whitehead shooting

Evidence Based Practice in Juvenile Justice: Nebraska White Paper

This White Paper is the product of the collaborative effort of the University of Nebraska/Lincoln (UNL) Law and Psychology Program, the University of Nebraska/Omaha (UNO) Consortium for Crime and Justice Research and the UNO Juvenile Justice Institute. The purpose of this paper is to provide an overview for understanding, testing, and developing Evidence Based Practice (EBP) interventions that make rehabilitative services available to children in the juvenile justice system. The paper begins with a summary of a proposal for a classification system of EBP programs in the Juvenile Justice System in Nebraska and then goes on to explain the logic of the classification system

Evidence Based Practice in Juvenile Justice: Nebraska White Paper

This White Paper is the product of the collaborative effort of the University of Nebraska/Lincoln (UNL) Law and Psychology Program, the University of Nebraska/Omaha (UNO) Consortium for Crime and Justice Research and the UNO Juvenile Justice Institute. The purpose of this paper is to provide an overview for understanding, testing, and developing Evidence Based Practice (EBP) interventions that make rehabilitative services available to children in the juvenile justice system. The paper begins with a summary of a proposal for a classification system of EBP programs in the Juvenile Justice System in Nebraska and then goes on to explain the logic of the classification system.

Evidence-Based Practice in Juvenile Justice: Nebraska White Paper

This White Paper is the product of the collaborative effort of the University of Nebraska/Lincoln (UNL) Law and Psychology Program, the University of Nebraska/Omaha (UNO) Consortium for Crime and Justice Research and the UNO Juvenile Justice Institute. The purpose of this paper is to provide an overview for understanding, testing, and developing Evidence Based Practice (EBP) interventions that make rehabilitative services available to children in the juvenile justice system. The paper begins with a summary of a proposal for a classification system of EBP programs in the Juvenile Justice System in Nebraska and then goes on to explain the logic of the classification system

Psychology and BAPCPA: Enhanced Disclosure and Emotion

This article describes a program of research that applies social analytic jurisprudence to test some of the assumptions in consumer bankruptcy law and policy.4 Our work first seeks to describe selected provisions from the newly enacted bankruptcy amendments that pertain to enhanced disclosure requirements, and then to locate some of the behavioral assumptions implicit in these provisions. 5 Next, we assess the accuracy of these assumptions based on an experiment that we conducted looking at a simulated online shopping trip that we constructed specifically to test the effects of enhanced disclosur