Toward a method for evaluating court actor influences on plea negotiations: A preliminary exploration of public defenders

2021 ◽  
Author(s):  
Christi Metcalfe
Keyword(s):  
Public Defenders

Police BWCs as ‘Neutral Observers’: Perceptions of public defenders

2020 ◽  
Author(s):  
Janne E Gaub ◽  
Carolyn Naoroz ◽  
Aili Malm
Keyword(s):  
Criminal Justice ◽  
Focus Groups ◽  
Qualitative Data ◽  
Future Research ◽  
End User ◽  
Public Defenders

Abstract The research on police body-worn cameras (BWCs) has rapidly expanded to evaluate the technology’s impact on a range of police outcomes. Far fewer studies have addressed the various effects on downstream criminal justice actors, and those that do have focused almost entirely on prosecutors. Thus, public defenders have remained on the periphery of the police BWC discussion, despite playing an important role as an end-user of the technology. This study draws on qualitative data from focus groups with public defenders in the Commonwealth of Virginia to discuss the perception of BWCs as neutral observers in a police–citizen encounter. We then provide implications and recommend avenues for future research.

scholarly journals Governance in the Brazilian Federal Public Defenders’ Office

2020 ◽  
Vol 11 (1) ◽  
Author(s):  
Bernardo Oliveira Buta ◽  
Tomas Aquino Guimaraes ◽  
Luiz Akutsu
Keyword(s):  
Public Defenders

Public Defenders

1955 ◽  
Vol 46 (2) ◽  
pp. 199
Author(s):  
David Mars
Keyword(s):  
Public Defenders

Morally Questionable Tactics: Negotiations between District Attorneys and Public Defenders

2001 ◽  
Vol 27 (6) ◽  
pp. 731-743 ◽  
Author(s):  
Stephen M. Garcia ◽  
John M. Darley ◽  
Robert J. Robinson
Keyword(s):  
Public Defenders ◽  
District Attorneys

New Jersey's Intensive Supervision Program: A Progress Report

1985 ◽  
Vol 31 (3) ◽  
pp. 393-410 ◽  
Author(s):  
Frank S. Pearson
Keyword(s):  
Program Design ◽  
Progress Report ◽  
Summative Evaluation ◽  
First Year ◽  
Selective Screening ◽  
Public Defenders ◽  
Intensive Supervision ◽  
Multiple Contacts

This is a progress report on the first year of operation of New Jersey's Intensive Supervision Program (ISP). The program design includes, among other components, very selective screening of applicants and multiple contacts with each offender every week. Results of a survey of judges, prosecutors, and public defenders on ISP are outlined. A summative evaluation would be premature at this time because only a handful of the 226 offenders admitted thus far into ISP have completed a full year in the program. However, preliminary indications of program accomplishments, including employment and rates of recidivism, are very promising.

scholarly journals Identifying public policies: Public Defenders and men who broke the Maria da Penha Law

2019 ◽  
Vol 53 (3) ◽  
pp. 628-639
Author(s):  
Josep Pont Vidal
Keyword(s):  
Public Policies ◽  
Public Defenders ◽  
Violencia Domestica

Resumo A avaliação dos serviços de assistência prestados pela Defensoria Pública possibilita a identificação de demandas e problemas que constituirão a origem de futuras políticas públicas. Este artigo apresenta os resultados de uma observação na qual se avaliaram os serviços de assistência prestados pelo Núcleo de Atendimento ao Homem Autor de Violência Doméstica e Familiar (Neah), a partir de depoimentos dos assistidos e de suas companheiras. Como resultado, identificam-se futuros serviços e políticas públicas voltados à prevenção, autorreflexão e mudança de percepção dos homens agressores. Os resultados da observação empírica ressaltam o paradoxo das políticas públicas de atendimento a homens acusados de violência doméstica: enquanto a avaliação dos serviços de assistência prestados pela DP-PA e do atendimento policial por parte das mulheres cônjuges manifesta uma insatisfação pelos resultados do atendimento recebido na DP-PA, com relação aos seus parceiros. Os homens que participaram do grupo terapêutico manifestaram nas entrevistas haver experimentado uma mudança de comportamento com relação às suas cônjuges e sobre a visão da mulher.

Justice for the Enemy?

2019 ◽  
Author(s):  
Margaretha Franziska Vordermayer
Keyword(s):  
Transitional Justice ◽  
Specific Form ◽  
Public Image ◽  
Court Cases ◽  
Public Defenders ◽  
The Public ◽  
British Occupation ◽  
War Criminals ◽  
Transnational Cooperation

Between 1945 and 1949, a total of 329 court martials were conducted in the British occupation zone in Germany. In addition to German lawyers, 46 British officers took on a mandate as public defenders. German lawyers, British defence counsels, prosecutors and judges created a specific form of transnational cooperation in these tribunals. At the heart of this study is the now largely forgotten role of British officers who represented alleged German war criminals in military courts and significantly shaped the public image of their clients. The study illuminates the defendants who were prosecuted and the crimes they were accused of on the basis of sources that have barely been explored so far, as well as the proceedings and the judgements of the 34 tribunals. In addition to the description of the tribunals, concepts of transitional justice provide further access to these military court cases and the British defenders who operated there—their backgrounds, their protagonists and, not least, their consequences.

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