Teen Courts are an effective judicial alternative for many youth offenders. The majority of youth courts deal solely with first-time offenders. However, repeat offenders are at a greater risk for future crime. Is Teen Court effective with more experienced offenders? In this study, the authors examine the outcomes of 26 Whatcom County Teen Court offenders with at least one prior conviction. The ...

Electronic-government (e-government) involves “[t]he use of technology to enhance the access to and delivery of government services to benefit citizens, business partners and employees”.[1] One government service in particular that has much to gain from e-government is the court service, because courts in most jurisdictions have experienced and continue to experience problems with backlogs and ...

We study a contracting model with unforeseen contingencies in which the court is an active player. Ex ante, the contracting parties cannot include the risky unforeseen contingencies in the contract they draw up. Ex post, the court observes whether an unforeseen contingency occurred and decides whether to void or uphold the contract. If the contract is voided by the court, the parties can renego...

Building on developments in machine learning and prior work in the science of judicial prediction, we construct a model designed to predict the behavior of the Supreme Court of the United States in a generalized, out-of-sample context. To do so, we develop a time-evolving random forest classifier that leverages unique feature engineering to predict more than 240,000 justice votes and 28,000 cas...

Close to 200 s tudents met in the L aFortune Ballroom last night to discuss yes te rday’s d em ons tra t ion against recruiters from Dow Chemical C om pany and the Central Intelligence Agency and to plan to d a y ’s action. Brian Mclnerney, organizer o f the dem ons tra t ion , said tha t s tu d e n ts would reenter the A d m in is t ra t io n Building this morning at 9 :0 0 to con tinue the pr...

Cancer and procreation raise a host of novel legal issues involving the rights of those trying to create families after cancer treatment and any resulting children, as well as the responsibilities of those who assist them. Recent court decisions, although neither consistent nor plentiful, highlight the emerging legal issues for patients, providers, and offspring. This article explores a number ...

Many animals build structures to provide shelter, avoid predation, attract mates or house offspring, but the behaviour and potential cognitive processes involved during building are poorly understood. Great bowerbird (Ptilinorhynchus nuchalis) males build and maintain display courts by placing tens to hundreds of objects in a positive size-distance gradient. The visual angles created by the gra...

In the General Election and Regional Head Law, Supervisory Board (Bawaslu) has authority supervisory to each stages, it is center for law enforcement activities of (Sentra Gakkumdu) criminal acts carrying out judicial functions investigating, examining, decided on administrative disputes Election. With Bawaslu’s then placed as a super-body institution in ranks Management Body, due its essential...