Self-correction of wrongful convictions: is there a ‘System-level’ confirmation bias in the Swedish legal system’s appeal procedure for criminal cases?—Part I

Lidén, Moa; Gräns, Minna; Juslin, Peter

doi:10.1093/lpr/mgy018

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“…Firstly, there is a growing body of evidence that BI can be used effectively to improve criminal justice system responses (e.g. Liden, 2018). Much of the work to date has been focused on police, with comparatively little in the courts.…”

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Reflections on applying behavioural insights to crime: a guide for behavioural scientists and criminologists in search of policy unicorns

Davies¹,

Ruda

2023

Behav. Public Policy

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Behavioural science has made significant contributions to public policy over the last decade from tax compliance to pensions and energy use. However, behavioural insights (BI) have not yet been able to claim significant policy shifts in the area of crime, despite increasing interest and experimentation. This paper offers a critical reflection on the state of BI and crime from the perspective of those who have been at the forefront of this work since the inception of the world's first behavioural science team in government. We outline how existing theories of crime have already laid foundations for the successful application of BI but identify opportunities to build on these with tools from behavioural science. We conclude by examining how continued cross-pollination of ideas between BI and disciplines such as applied criminology points to promising directions for future research.

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Reflections on applying behavioural insights to crime: a guide for behavioural scientists and criminologists in search of policy unicorns

Davies¹,

Ruda

2023

Behav. Public Policy

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“…Finally, simply by virtue of being human, officials may rely on heuristics, or mental shortcuts, when evaluating applicants' testimonies, in particular in the absence of structured, evidence-based evaluation techniques (see Dror, 2020). The confirmation bias, for example, can lead an initial impression that a claim is not believable to be very resilient, even in the face of contradictory evidence (see Lidén, 2018).…”

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A review of psycho-legal issues in credibility assessments of asylum claims based on religion

Selim¹,

Korkman²,

Nynäs³

et al. 2022

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Religious persecution is a leading cause of global displacement. In the absence of supporting evidence, presenting a credible oral asylum claim based on religion is a difficult task for asylum-seekers. Asylum officials, in turn, face considerable challenges in evaluating the credibility of asylum-seekers’ claims to determine their eligibility for refugee status. We reviewed 21 original manuscripts addressing credibility assessments of asylum claims based on religion. We focused on (1) officials’ methods of eliciting a religious claim in the asylum interview; (2) their credibility assessments of particularly complex asylum claims, namely those based on religious conversion, unfamiliar religions, and absence of religion; and (3) issues related to the presence of an interpreter. We found deviations in officials’ assessment patterns from established knowledge in both legal psychology and the scientific study of religion. Closer collaboration between asylum practitioners and researchers in these fields is needed to improve the validity and reliability of credibility assessments of asylum claims based on religion.

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“…For German legal experts, by contrast, Prochownik et al (2020Prochownik et al ( , 2023 fail to find a severity effect on intentionality attributions. Moa Lidén and her collaborators work almost exclusively with legal experts (principally judges from Sweden) and have found them to be as susceptible to a host of biases as laypeople (see, e.g., Lidén, 2023;Lidén et al, 2018Lidén et al, , 2019. Noel Struchiner, Guilherme Almeida, Ivar Hannikainen and colleagues, too, have conducted a plethora of studies with legal experts from Brazil on several topics (see, e.g., Almeida et al, 2023;Struchiner et al, 2020aStruchiner et al, , 2020b.…”

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The Meaning of ‘Reasonable’: Evidence From a Corpus-Linguistic Study

Baumgartner,

Kneer

2023

SSRN Journal

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Self-correction of wrongful convictions: is there a ‘System-level’ confirmation bias in the Swedish legal system’s appeal procedure for criminal cases?—Part I

Cited by 6 publications

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Reflections on applying behavioural insights to crime: a guide for behavioural scientists and criminologists in search of policy unicorns

Reflections on applying behavioural insights to crime: a guide for behavioural scientists and criminologists in search of policy unicorns

A review of psycho-legal issues in credibility assessments of asylum claims based on religion

The Meaning of ‘Reasonable’: Evidence From a Corpus-Linguistic Study

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