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Judicial Notebook: Are virtual juries effective?
Research suggests virtual and in-person juries are similar in deliberation quality and outcome.
Judicial notebook: Is counseling entitled to protection under the First Amendment?
Supreme Court case examines balance between state regulation and free speech rights in professional contexts.
Judicial notebook: Women face harsher punishments when it comes to self-defense laws
Historic ruling ushers in a new era for survivors of violence, exploitation, and trafficking.
Judicial Notebook: Improving patients’ rights to make choices in their treatment
A revolution is brewing that could offer true implementation of patients’ rights to treatment in the least restrictive setting
Judicial notebook: Jails need help addressing the needs of people deemed incompetent
Jails have evolved as the de facto mental health hospitals for pretrial detainees. How can the competency process be improved to ensure fair treatment?
Countering cognitive biases on experts’ objectivity in court
Mental health professionals’ opinions can be extremely influential in legal proceedings.
Judicial notebook: A step back in juvenile sentencing
A Supreme Court opinion backtracks on juvenile constitutional rights at sentencing. Jones v. Mississippi (2021) is a troubling reversal from the idea that 'children are constitutionally different from adults for purposes of sentencing.'
Judicial notebook: Mismanagement of psychotropics in the foster care system
How psychologists can help ensure appropriate prescribing and oversight of medications to foster children. The Tidball case illustrated the potential risks for using psychotropics on children, including psychosis, seizures, suicidal thoughts, and organ damage.
Judicial notebook: Vicarious trauma among the nation's prison staff
The emotional burden on staff before and after executions can be overwhelming, but there are interventions in place for staff who have to help carry out death sentences.
Judicial notebook: A legal fight over tribal rights
Did Congress ever officially abolish the Muscogee (Creek) Nation Reservation and what are the legal and psychological ramifications of that decision?
Judicial notebook: A call to study Native Americans' experiences in tribal and U.S. courts
Understanding the differences between native justice practices in tribal courts and the U.S. justice system could help reduce the high rate of incarceration of native people.
Judicial notebook: Eliminating offensive legal language
Legal terms should be updated so that they foster respect for people with disabilities.
Judicial notebook: Case highlights the burdens of indigent defendants
The state must provide an expert to examine and assist in evaluation, preparation and presentation of the defense.
Judicial notebook: Missing: A key patient safeguard
Mental health advance directives could ameliorate the poor prognosis of people who are involuntarily committed.
Judicial notebook: Oklahoma leads the way on juvenile competency
The state’s new law ushers in an era of progressive change for other states to follow, though not without challenges.
