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The jury: Why we need to learn more about their collective decision-making processes.
Society, Politics & Law

The jury: Why we need to learn more about their collective decision-making processes.

...Law. Doi: 10.1177/0258024221080655. Devine, D., & Caughlin, D. E. (2014). Do they matter? A meta-analytic investigation of individual characteristics and guilt judgments. Psychology, Public Policy, and Law, 20, 109-134. doi: 10.1037/law0000006. Devine, D., Clayton, L.D., & Dunford, B, B. (2001). Jury decision making: 45 years of empirical research on deliberating gorups....
The historical and ongoing persecution of Europe’s gypsies
History & The Arts

The historical and ongoing persecution of Europe’s gypsies

...laws seeking to destroy their culture. In the twentieth century, the Nazis planned the elimination of both the European Jewry and Roma. They were deemed racially ‘undesirable’ and stripped of their citizenship rights by the Nuremberg Race Laws, forced into ghettos and deported as forced labour to concentration camps where they suffered from starvation, disease,...
Reactions and reflections to On a Wing and a Prayer
Society, Politics & Law

Reactions and reflections to On a Wing and a Prayer

...law in constituting citizens and migrants as well as the different spaces and journeys informing migrations, mobilities and immobilities. This will was followed by an open exchange between all participants on the ethical, political and artistic issues raised by Syed's work. After the event participants were asked to reflect upon questions of identity and their learnings...
Gwneud Nodiadau Effeithiol
Education & Development

Gwneud Nodiadau Effeithiol

...law. Peidiwch â gorlenwi'r dudalen. Defnyddiwch ymylon llydan fel bod lle i ychwanegu nodiadau ychwanegol maes o law. TREFNWCH EICH NODIADAU Trefnwch eich nodiadau fel eich bod yn gallu dod o hyd i'r hyn rydych yn chwilio amdano yn hawdd. Os oes gennych sawl tudalen ar un pwnc, cofiwch gynnwys rhifau tudalennau. Ychwanegwch deitl at eich nodiadau a'u dyddio. Cofiwch...
What is leading to a decline in trust in charities?
Money & Business

What is leading to a decline in trust in charities?

...law subjects charity trustees to a range of duties designed to prevent abuses of power, such as the duty to account for the stewardship of the charity’s assets, the duty to participate actively in the charity’s management, and the duty to plough any profit back into the charity’s services and not distribute it to private hands. There is also an overarching duty to...
Infographic: 12 things to know about Einstein's Theory of Relativity
Science, Maths & Technology

Infographic: 12 things to know about Einstein's Theory of Relativity

...laws were used to understand the physics of motion. In 1687, Newton wrote that gravity affects everything in the universe. The same force of gravity that pulled an apple down from a tree kept the Earth in motion around the sun. But Newton never puzzled out the source of gravity. Philosopher David Hume’s 1738 ‘A Treatise of Human Nature’ was a big influence on...
Knife crime is a health risk for young people – it can’t be solved by policing alone
Education & Development

Knife crime is a health risk for young people – it can’t be solved by policing alone

...law enforcement and gang policing. A special report, Ending Gang and Youth Violence (EGYV) was launched in November 2011. This £10m programme contained proposals to tackle the causes of gang and youth violence, as well as tough enforcement measures targeting violent criminals. By the end of 2015, EGYV was supposed to “have turned around the lives of 120,000 of the most...
Making a difference: Janet Cassidy's life as a union representative
Society, Politics & Law

Making a difference: Janet Cassidy's life as a union representative

...Scot-rail.co.uk, n.d.). She said the male drivers were really good to her, and many became good friends. The public could be more challenging: some were shocked to see a female driver and openly commented on her assumed lack of ability. One gentleman said, ‘Oh, I’m not getting on that train – it’s a woman driver!’, to which Janet replied that there was a bus...