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Author : Reid Hastie
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 292 pages
File Size : 44,7 Mb
Release : 1993
Category : Law
ISBN : 0521477557
Provides a comprehensive and understandable summary of the major theories of juror decision making.
Author : Dennis J. Devine
Publisher : NYU Press
Page : 286 pages
File Size : 48,5 Mb
Release : 2012-08-06
Category : Psychology
ISBN : 9780814725221
While jury decision making has received considerable attention from social scientists, there have been few efforts to systematically pull together all the pieces of this research. In Jury Decision Making, Dennis J. Devine examines over 50 years of research on juries and offers a "big picture" overview of the field. The volume summarizes existing theories of jury decision making and identifies what we have learned about jury behavior, including the effects of specific courtroom practices, the nature of the trial, the characteristics of the participants, and the evidence itself. Making use of those foundations, Devine offers a new integrated theory of jury decision making that addresses both individual jurors and juries as a whole and discusses its ramifications for the courts. Providing a unique combination of broad scope, extensive coverage of the empirical research conducted over the last half century, and theory advancement, this accessible and engaging volume offers "one-stop shopping" for scholars, students, legal professionals, and those who simply wish to better understand how well the jury system works.
Author : Carol B. Anderson
Publisher : Aspen Publishing
Page : 186 pages
File Size : 53,9 Mb
Release : 2012-03-02
Category : Law
ISBN : 9781601561817
This book discusses the conscious and unconscious psychological factors that influence juror decision-making. Jurors inevitably rely on the same "thinking tools" at trial that they use to solve problems and make decisions in their everyday lives, which makes it almost impossible for them to divorce instinct and emotion from decision-making. Their fight-or-flight reflexes are stimulated not only by predators but by information that makes them fear for their personal safety—even if the threatening information is something they merely imagine. Because self-preservation is a primal instinct, jurors tend to unconsciously respond by disregarding or altering the "threatening" evidence. Information that conflicts with their personal beliefs and biases often elicits a similar response. Therefore, what jurors hear and remember about a case will inevitably be a reflection of who they are, what they value, and what their life experiences have been. Because jurors unconsciously weigh information in a hierarchical fashion, the "hierarchy of juror decision-making" can serve as a blueprint for creating strategies to counteract the most common thinking errors that can skew jurors' perceptions of the case. This is a valuable weapon that should be in every trial lawyer's arsenal.
Author : Jennifer M. Brown,Elizabeth A. Campbell
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 128 pages
File Size : 52,6 Mb
Release : 2010-04-29
Category : Psychology
ISBN : 9781139489454
Forensic psychology has developed and extended from an original, narrow focus on presenting evidence to the courts to a wider application across the whole span of civil and criminal justice, which includes dealing with suspects, offenders, victims, witnesses, defendants, litigants and justice professionals. This Handbook provides an encyclopedic-style source regarding the major concerns in forensic psychology. It is an invaluable reference text for practitioners within community, special hospital, secure unit, prison, probation and law enforcement forensic settings, as well as being appropriate for trainees and students in these areas. It will also serve as a companion text for lawyers and psychiatric and law enforcement professionals who wish to be apprised of forensic psychology coverage. Each entry provides a succinct outline of the topic, describes current thinking, identifies relevant consensual or contested aspects and alternative positions. Readers are presented with key issues and directed towards specialized sources for further reference.
Author : Brad Bradshaw
Publisher : American Bar Association
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 41,9 Mb
Release : 2011
Category : Forensic oratory
ISBN : 1616329890
This is your guide to the way jurors make decisions, and how you can use that knowledge to convince them that your story of a case is the correct version. The author--who holds a Ph.D in psychology, for which he researched persuasion and juror decision-making--walks you though every stage of the trial and offers information on what jurors are thinking when, and how to influence them in the most effective ways.
Author : Margaret Bull Kovera
Publisher : American Psychological Association (APA)
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 40,5 Mb
Release : 2017
Category : Law
ISBN : 1433827042
This volume summarizes what is known about the psychology of juries and offers a robust research agenda to keep scholars busy in years to come.
Author : Daniel A. Krauss
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 240 pages
File Size : 40,9 Mb
Release : 2016-05-06
Category : Psychology
ISBN : 9781317109969
The first of a two-volume set on the Psychology of the Courtroom, Jury Psychology: Social Aspects of Trial Processes offers a definitive account of the influence of trial procedures on juror decision-making. A wide range of topics are covered including pre-trial publicity and inadmissible evidence, jury selection, jury instruction, and death penalty cases, as well as decision-making in civil trials. In addition, a number of global issues are discussed, including procedural justice issues and theoretical models of juror decision-making. Throughout the volume the authors make recommendations for improving trial procedures where jurors are involved, and they discuss how the problems and potential solutions are relevant to courts around the world.
Author : Christine L. Ruva
Publisher : Nova Science Pub Incorporated
Page : 54 pages
File Size : 55,8 Mb
Release : 2010
Category : Law
ISBN : 1616683287
Pretrial publicity (PTP) has been found to have a biasing effect on jury decision making. This chapter explores how research and theory in cognitive psychology has been used to examine the mechanisms responsible for PTP's biasing effects on jury decisions. This research can assist the courts in finding effective remedies for PTP bias. This research suggests that jury deliberations can increase (polarise) juror bias and therefore, cannot be counted on to remedy the effect of PTP on jury decision making. This book also reviews research and theory examining whether memory errors (e.g., source misattributions) and biases of individual jurors are likely to be corrected by jury members during deliberations.
Author : Robert J. MacCoun,Rand Corporation
Publisher : Rand Corporation
Page : 5 pages
File Size : 40,7 Mb
Release : 1989
Category : Criminal procedure
ISBN : 0833010077
Jury verdicts directly affect the lives of hundreds of thousands of people in the United States every year and serve a bellwether function in plea bargaining and settlement negotiations. But because juries deliberate in secret, legal policymakers have made important decisions about the scope and conduct of jury trials on the basis of untested intuitions about how juries reach verdicts. In this review of research on jury behavior, the author emphasizes the use of mock jury experiments to test hypotheses and refine theoretical models of the decision process. Because jury decisionmaking involves two different phases--cognitive processing during the trial and deliberation in the jury room--the author reviews research on both the trial and deliberation phases of the judgment process. In keeping with the emphasis of most jury research, he focuses primarily on decisionmaking in criminal trials; the extent to which the findings can be applied to civil litigation is discussed in RAND/N-2671.
Author : Dr. Sunwolf
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 437 pages
File Size : 52,6 Mb
Release : 2004-01
Category : Jury
ISBN : 082058374X
Author : Clay S. Conrad
Publisher : Cato Institute
Page : 337 pages
File Size : 44,8 Mb
Release : 2013-12-05
Category : Law
ISBN : 9781939709011
The Founding Fathers guaranteed trial by jury three times in the Constitution—more than any other right—since juries can serve as the final check on government’s power to enforce unjust, immoral, or oppressive laws. But in America today, how independent c
Author : Cynthia Najdowski,Margaret Stevenson
Publisher : Oxford University Press
Page : 328 pages
File Size : 53,5 Mb
Release : 2018-08-20
Category : Psychology
ISBN : 9780190658120
The jury is often hailed as one of the most important symbols of American democracy. Yet much has changed since the Sixth Amendment in 1791 first guaranteed all citizens the right to a jury trial in criminal prosecutions. Experts now have a much more nuanced understanding of the psychological implications of being a juror, and advances in technology and neuroscience make the work of rendering a decision in a criminal trial more complicated than ever before. Criminal Juries in the 21st Century explores the increasingly wide gulf between criminal trial law, procedures, and policy, and what scientific findings have revealed about the human experience of serving as a juror. Readers will contemplate myriad legal issues that arise when jurors decide criminal cases as well as cutting-edge psychological research that can be used to not only understand the performance and experience of the contemporary criminal jury, but also to improve it. Chapter authors grapple with a number of key issues at the intersection of psychology and law, guiding readers to consider everything from the factors that influence the initial selection of the jury to how jurors cope with and reflect on their service after the trial ends. Together the chapters provide a unique view of criminal juries with the goal of increasing awareness of a broad range of current issues in great need of theoretical, empirical, and legal attention. Criminal Juries in the 21st Century will identify how social science research can inform law and policy relevant to improving justice within the jury system, and is an essential resource for those who directly study jury decision making as well as social scientists generally, attorneys, judges, students, and even future jurors.
Author : Valerie P. Hans,Neil Vidmar
Publisher : Springer
Page : 285 pages
File Size : 48,9 Mb
Release : 2013-11-11
Category : Law
ISBN : 9781489964632
Author : Michael J. Saks
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 72 pages
File Size : 51,5 Mb
Release : 1981
Category : Decision making, Group
ISBN : UCR:31210024793562
A report on a search of the psychological literature for information about the competence of jurors to find the facts in complex, protracted civil trials. The author noted that little research had focused directly on this issue and concluded that in legal fact-finding in complex civil trials, groups had advantages over individuals as decision makers.
Author : Bruce Dennis Sales
Publisher : Springer Science & Business Media
Page : 515 pages
File Size : 48,5 Mb
Release : 2013-11-11
Category : Psychology
ISBN : 9781468437676
As noted in the Preface to Volume 1 in this series, the goal of Perspectives in Law and Psychology is to provide a forum for books aimed at systemati cally interfacing the two disciplines. Toward this end, Volume 1 pre sented a collection of original writings focused on the criminal justice system that grew out of a conference held at the University of Nebraska at Lincoln. Because that volume was based on conference proceedings, however, an attempt was not made to provide thorough coverage of all law-psychology issues in the criminal justice system; rather, it highlight ed a select few issues that were currently being investigated by some of the outstanding people in the field. This volume differs substantially from the first in that it attempts to bring together those psycholegal scholars who are doing the major re search on the trial process today and provides broad coverage of critical research on the trial. Thus, the chapters not only provide an extensive review of existing literature in this field but also present new contribu tions by these scholars.