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Court Practice (court + practice)

Distribution by Scientific Domains

Law and Criminology	70%

Selected Abstracts

JUVENILE DELINQUENCY GUIDELINES: Improving Court Practice in Juvenile Delinquency Cases

JUVENILE AND FAMILY COURT JOURNAL, Issue 3 2005
Mary V. Mentaberry
No abstract is available for this article. [source]

Juvenile Delinquency Guidelines: Improving Court Practice in Juvenile Delinquency Cases SIXTEEN KEY PRINCIPLES

JUVENILE AND FAMILY COURT JOURNAL, Issue 3 2005
Article first published online: 14 JUL 200
ABSTRACT This article is excerpted from the National Council of Juvenile and Family Court Judges' landmark JUVENILE DELINQUENCY GUIDELINES: Improving Court Practice in Juvenile Delinquency Cases, Chapter I, Foundations for Excellence, published in 2005. Beginning with a basic discussion of why separate courts for juveniles and adults continue to be necessary, the article describes the goals and key principles of a juvenile delinquency court of excellence. [source]

Creating Justice Through Balance: Integrating Domestic Violence Law into Family Court Practice

JUVENILE AND FAMILY COURT JOURNAL, Issue 4 2003
ANDREA C. FARNEY
ABSTRACT Freedom from domestic violence is a central right that will be realized through a transformation of culture. Law, embedded within the evolving cultural transformation, plays a necessary, though not sufficient, role in social change. This article reviews the development of family and domestic violence law. It compares and contrasts the core precepts of family and domestic violence jurisprudence with resulting practice and policy ramifications arising from the inherent substantive tensions. Finally, critical civil legal system actors, courts, and attorneys are challenged to apply and practice domestic violence law in the struggle to afford justice for all. [source]

When Systems Collide: Improving Court Practices and Programs in Dual Jurisdiction Cases

JUVENILE AND FAMILY COURT JOURNAL, Issue 2 2005
GENE SIEGEL
ABSTRACT The purpose of this article is to identify promising court-based or court-linked practices and programs that can effectively address the difficult challenges posed by dual jurisdiction cases. It is an initial effort to present what courts are currently doing or what courts can do to improve coordination of dual jurisdiction matters. [source]

Supreme Court Advocacy in the Early Nineteenth Century

JOURNAL OF SUPREME COURT HISTORY, Issue 1 2005
DAVID C. FREDERICK
The early nineteenth century was transformative of the Supreme Court's practices. Yet understanding those fundamental changes requires some appreciation of practice before the Court in the late eighteenth century, and the developments in the early nineteenth century produced changes in the Court's practices that are still felt today. In this first half-century or so of the Court's existence, more dramatic developments and changes occurred in oral argument practice than in any other period of the Court's history.1 [source]

THE DIVIDED WORLD OF THE CHILD: DIVORCE AND LONG-TERM PSYCHOSOCIAL ADJUSTMENT

FAMILY COURT REVIEW, Issue 3 2010
Gordon E. Finley
This study evaluated the extent to which divorce creates the "divided world of the child," as well as consequences of this "divided world" for long-term adjustment. An ethnically diverse sample of 1,375 young-adult university students completed retrospective measures of parental nurturance and involvement, and current measures of psychosocial adjustment and troubled ruminations about parents. Results indicated that reports of maternal and paternal nurturance and involvement were closely related in intact families but uncorrelated in divorced families. Across family forms, the total amount of nurturance or involvement received was positively associated with self-esteem, purpose in life, life satisfaction, friendship quality and satisfaction, and academic performance; and negatively related to distress, romantic relationship problems, and troubled ruminations about parents. Mother-father differences in nurturance and involvement showed a largely opposite set of relationships. Implications for family court practices are discussed. [source]

Confessions and Criminal Case Disposition in China

LAW & SOCIETY REVIEW, Issue 3 2003
Hong Lu
This research examines confessions and criminal case disposition in China. It describes how wider economic reforms in China and subsequent changes in its legal system may have affected the nature and consequence of criminal confessions. Bivariate and multivariate analyses of a sample of 1,009 criminal court cases reveal that the majority of offenders confessed to their crime and that confession is associated with less severe punishments (e.g., lower risks for imprisonment, shorter sentences). Changes in the nature of confession and its impact on criminal court practices are also examined before and after legal reforms in the mid-1990s. These context-specific findings are then discussed in terms of their implications for understanding the interrelationships between legal structure, legal culture, and case disposition in communitarian-based societies. [source]

When Noble Aspirations Fail: Why We Need the Approximation Rule

CHILD DEVELOPMENT PERSPECTIVES, Issue 2 2007
Mary E. O'Connell
ABSTRACT,Critics of the American Law Institute's proposed "approximation rule" often imply that its adoption would eliminate many current family court practices, such as mandatory mediation or parent education. This comment notes that, in fact, there is no connection between the approximation rule and these services. Understanding the approximation rule, and the need for it, requires us to look in an entirely different direction,namely, at the way in which the current "best interests of the child" standard makes custody courts deeply dependent on professional custody evaluators. This dependence is especially troubling because the scientific basis for custody evaluations is hotly contested, with noted psychologists describing it as weak or lacking. The approximation rule is an alternative to current law's heavy reliance on flawed science. [source]