Punitive Damages How Juries Decide

Name: Punitive Damages How Juries Decide
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ISBN: 9780226780146

ISBN-10: 0226780147

ISBN-13: 9780226780146

Edition: 2002

Authors: Cass R. Sunstein, Reid Hastie, John W. Payne, David A. Schkade, W. Kip Viscusi

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The authors ask how juries actually make decisions about punitive damages. Specialists in psychology, economics and law present new data gathered from over 600 controlled experiments which documents a range of systematic bias in jury behaviour.

Book details

List price: $48.00
Copyright year: 2002
Publisher: University of Chicago Press
Publication date: 4/15/2002
Binding: Hardcover
Pages: 296
Size: 6.25" wide x 9.25" long x 1.00" tall
Weight: 1.298
Language: English



Preface and Acknoweldgments


Introduction


The Problem and Efforts to Understand It



Overview: What We Did and What We Found



How Juries Think



From Outrage to Dollars


Introduction



Shared Outrage, Erractic Awards



Deliberating about Dollars: The Severity Shift



Do Plaintiffs' Request and Plaintiffs' Identities Matter?



To Punish or Not?


Introduction



Judging Corporate Recklessness



Looking Backward in Punitive Judgments: 20-20 Vision?



Jurors and Judges as Risk Managers


Introduction



Corporate Risk Analysis: A Reckless Act?



Do People Want Optimal Detterence?



Detterence Instructions: What Jurors Won't Do



Judging Risk and Reckelssness



Do Judges Do Better?



Conclusions



Putting It All Together



What Should Be Done?


Appendix: Judge's Instructions


Glossary


Bibliography


List of Contributors


Index