Rachel Dioso‐villa
Biographic Data
| ID | 4115328 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Rachel Dioso‐villa |
| GIVEN NAMES | Rachel |
| FAMILY NAME | Dioso‐villa |
| SIGNATURE | VILLA R D |
| AFFILIATIONS | Griffith University |
| ORCID | 0000-0002-9909-5091 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 9 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 8 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 9 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2016 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2026 |
| H-INDEX | 1 |
Autonomy over Accuracy
While exoneration data shows innocent persons sometimes plead guilty, little empirical research has explored how such wrongful convictions may be recognized and corrected on appeal. Through a qualitative content analysis of 104 Australian appellate court judgments where an applicant contested a guilty plea conviction and claimed factual innocence, this study examines how judges respond to such claims and the justifications provided for overturnin…
Factors Contributing to Guilty Plea Wrongful Convictions
Criminal defendants can face significant pressures to plead guilty, but wrongful conviction scholarship has largely overlooked the study of guilty pleas. This study content analyzed 139 Australian appellate court judgments in which a guilty plea conviction was overturned, investigating the types of errors involved in these convictions, and the stage of the criminal justice process at which the errors occurred. The findings revealed that errors oc…
Wrongful Convictions and Erroneous Acquittals
The fallible nature of the criminal justice system continues to see judicial errors—that is, wrongful convictions and erroneous acquittals—undermine its integrity, efficacy, and legitimacy. Public perceptions of judicial errors are important contributors to criminal justice policy and reforms. The current study utilizes the 2016 Australian Survey of Social Attitudes (AuSSA) dataset to examine public attitudes toward judicial errors. It applies He…
Australia's Divergent Legal Responses to Women Who Kill Their Abusive Partners
Concerns over the legal treatment of women who kill in response to domestic abuse have driven several jurisdictions to reform their homicide laws in recent years. This article examines how abused women are currently treated within the Australian legal system by analyzing homicide cases involving women prosecuted for killing an abusive partner in Australia from 2010 to 2020. The findings reveal the limitations of legal reforms to improve access to…
Efficiency Over Accuracy
While most criminal cases are resolved by a guilty plea, little empirical research has examined guilty plea wrongful convictions. This study explored this issue through semistructured interviews with 27 legal professionals in Queensland, Australia ( n = 16 defense lawyers; n = 7 prosecutors; n = 4 magistrates). Driven by a systems and organizational perspective, we conducted a thematic analysis exploring the structural and organizational features…
The movement and translation of drug policy ideas
Judicial decision-making and ‘outside’ extra-legal knowledge
Judges apply law to facts. While this‘umpire’ description of judicial decision-making is rhetorically (and often politically and publicly) attractive, it is of course a very incomplete account of judicial decision-making.1 Judges frequently experience factual ‘gaps’ they need to fill in order to reach a decision. Judge Richard Posner has recently suggested this is a very significant problem facing judges in the twenty-first century as the technol…
Governing drug use through partnerships
Is the Expert Admissibility Game Fixed
Anecdotal evidence claims that in criminal cases, trial judges admit the prosecution's expert witnesses more readily than the defendants', and in civil cases the reverse is true; judges exclude plaintiffs' experts more often than civil defendants' experts. This occurs despite the fact that, with few exceptions, the same rules of admissibility apply to all parties and, in most jurisdictions, across criminal and civil cases. This article empiricall…
Is the Expert Admissibility Game Fixed
Anecdotal evidence claims that in criminal cases, trial judges admit the prosecution's expert witnesses more readily than the defendants', and in civil cases the reverse is true; judges exclude plaintiffs' experts more often than civil defendants' experts. This occurs despite the fact that, with few exceptions, the same rules of admissibility apply to all parties and, in most jurisdictions, across criminal and civil cases. This article empiricall…
Australia's Divergent Legal Responses to Women Who Kill Their Abusive Partners
Concerns over the legal treatment of women who kill in response to domestic abuse have driven several jurisdictions to reform their homicide laws in recent years. This article examines how abused women are currently treated within the Australian legal system by analyzing homicide cases involving women prosecuted for killing an abusive partner in Australia from 2010 to 2020. The findings reveal the limitations of legal reforms to improve access to…
Efficiency Over Accuracy
While most criminal cases are resolved by a guilty plea, little empirical research has examined guilty plea wrongful convictions. This study explored this issue through semistructured interviews with 27 legal professionals in Queensland, Australia ( n = 16 defense lawyers; n = 7 prosecutors; n = 4 magistrates). Driven by a systems and organizational perspective, we conducted a thematic analysis exploring the structural and organizational features…
Judicial decision-making and ‘outside’ extra-legal knowledge
Judges apply law to facts. While this‘umpire’ description of judicial decision-making is rhetorically (and often politically and publicly) attractive, it is of course a very incomplete account of judicial decision-making.1 Judges frequently experience factual ‘gaps’ they need to fill in order to reach a decision. Judge Richard Posner has recently suggested this is a very significant problem facing judges in the twenty-first century as the technol…
Governing drug use through partnerships
Is the Expert Admissibility Game Fixed
Anecdotal evidence claims that in criminal cases, trial judges admit the prosecution's expert witnesses more readily than the defendants', and in civil cases the reverse is true; judges exclude plaintiffs' experts more often than civil defendants' experts. This occurs despite the fact that, with few exceptions, the same rules of admissibility apply to all parties and, in most jurisdictions, across criminal and civil cases. This article empiricall…
The movement and translation of drug policy ideas
Wrongful Convictions and Erroneous Acquittals
The fallible nature of the criminal justice system continues to see judicial errors—that is, wrongful convictions and erroneous acquittals—undermine its integrity, efficacy, and legitimacy. Public perceptions of judicial errors are important contributors to criminal justice policy and reforms. The current study utilizes the 2016 Australian Survey of Social Attitudes (AuSSA) dataset to examine public attitudes toward judicial errors. It applies He…
Australia's Divergent Legal Responses to Women Who Kill Their Abusive Partners
Concerns over the legal treatment of women who kill in response to domestic abuse have driven several jurisdictions to reform their homicide laws in recent years. This article examines how abused women are currently treated within the Australian legal system by analyzing homicide cases involving women prosecuted for killing an abusive partner in Australia from 2010 to 2020. The findings reveal the limitations of legal reforms to improve access to…
Efficiency Over Accuracy
While most criminal cases are resolved by a guilty plea, little empirical research has examined guilty plea wrongful convictions. This study explored this issue through semistructured interviews with 27 legal professionals in Queensland, Australia ( n = 16 defense lawyers; n = 7 prosecutors; n = 4 magistrates). Driven by a systems and organizational perspective, we conducted a thematic analysis exploring the structural and organizational features…
Factors Contributing to Guilty Plea Wrongful Convictions
Criminal defendants can face significant pressures to plead guilty, but wrongful conviction scholarship has largely overlooked the study of guilty pleas. This study content analyzed 139 Australian appellate court judgments in which a guilty plea conviction was overturned, investigating the types of errors involved in these convictions, and the stage of the criminal justice process at which the errors occurred. The findings revealed that errors oc…
Autonomy over Accuracy
While exoneration data shows innocent persons sometimes plead guilty, little empirical research has explored how such wrongful convictions may be recognized and corrected on appeal. Through a qualitative content analysis of 104 Australian appellate court judgments where an applicant contested a guilty plea conviction and claimed factual innocence, this study examines how judges respond to such claims and the justifications provided for overturnin…
Political science (9 works) · Law (8 works) · Psychology (7 works) · Criminology (6 works) · Law (5 works) · Sociology (5 works) · Criminal Law and Evidence (4 works) · Criminal justice (3 works) · Judicial and Constitutional Studies (3 works) · Jury Decision Making Processes (3 works)