Mark Nolan

Mark Nolan
Charles Sturt University · Centre for Law and Justice

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The contemporary extreme right is home to diverse milieus, some of which challenge or confuse stereotypical understandings of the threat. This study seeks to describe and organise the different milieus of the Australian extreme right into a typology based on the past decade of observable violent activities. The typology proposes a threefold way to...
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Jurors sometimes consider inadmissible evidence in their verdicts, despite judicial instructions to disregard that evidence. Procedural justice research suggests this is because jurors are motivated to prioritise just outcomes over due process; thus, jurors’ non-compliance towards judicial instructions to disregard inadmissible evidence may be the...
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We examine the appeals from the conviction of Cardinal Pell in light of the common sense versus scientific belief system about human memory and robust principles of memory. We outline how assumptions about memory operations appeared to influence the legal decisions. At the heart of the High Court’s reasoning seemed to be an assumption that memory a...
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The present study examined the role of political orientation and task engagement in juror decision-making. The study was conducted as a 2 (mode: laboratory versus online) × 2 (role: juror, observer) × 3 (evidence: admissible, inadmissible, control) between-subjects experiment, with participants (N = 157) recruited from a mid-sized Australian univer...
Book
Legal Psychology in Australia is an introductory book aimed at enabling the teaching of legal psychology to law students, (forensic) psychology students, criminology students, and a range of students from diverse professions (eg. social work, psychiatric nursing, mediation, policy-makers, and investigative journalism) relevant to the legal system A...
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The United States jury system is unique in the world in the frequency of its use and its symbolic significance as a democratic institution. As Neil Vidmar writes, the American jury “remains a strong and vibrant institution even as it suffers criticism and calls for reform.” If the jury is “the lamp that shows that freedom lives,” it is ironic that...
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Despite its importance, research has revealed limitations in jury decision-making and has sought to develop processes for its improvement. Using 92 individual mock jurors, this study examined the use of question trails (QTs) as decision aids, testing a cognitive load explanation of their benefits and investigating individual differences in need for...
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The United States jury system is unique in the world in the frequency of its use and its symbolic significance as a democratic institution.1 As Neil Vidmar writes, the American jury “remains a strong and vibrant institution even as it suffers criticism and calls for reform.”2 If the jury is “the lamp that shows that freedom lives,”3 it is ironic th...
Chapter
This chapter begins by describing human rights use as a psychological response to injustice and is then followed by a discussion of the empirical findings. It presents empirical findings that suggest Australians assert human rights as one of a number of possible political responses to felt harm and perceived injustice. It also talks about the respo...
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This research develops the social psychological study of lay perception of human rights and of rights-based reactions to perceived injustice. The pioneering work by social representation theorists is reviewed. Of particular interest is the use of rights-based responses to perceived relative subgroup disadvantage. It is argued that these responses a...

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