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Notice to Readers: All the datasets published by the Brazilian Political Science Review are available at: https://dataverse.harvard.edu/dataverse/bpsr
03/Jul/2024
Lívia Bastos Lages
, Ludmila Ribeiro
DOI: 10.1590/1981-3821202400030004
In this study, we investigated judicial behavior during custody hearings in Brazil, a legal proceeding in which judges determine whether the arrested person should be kept in custody or released pending trial. Drawing on primary data obtained from hearings held between 2015 and 2016, our objective was to investigate the consistency of judges’ decisions and discern whether these decisions were influenced by individual ideologies. We employed semi-structured interviews, which we contend to be a valuable research method, to evaluate the […]
Keywords: attitudinal model; custody hearings; judicial behavior; judicial discretion