Jury System Contemporary Scholarship

Name: Jury System Contemporary Scholarship
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ISBN: 9780754625049

ISBN-10: 0754625044

ISBN-13: 9780754625049

Edition: 2006

Authors: Valerie P. Hans

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List price: $420.00
Copyright year: 2006
Publisher: Routledge
Publication date: 5/26/2006
Binding: Hardcover
Pages: 568
Size: 6.97" wide x 9.84" long x 1.77" tall
Weight: 0.990
Language: English



Introduction


The Development of Trial by Jury


Historical and Contemporary Perspectives


The international development of the jury: the role of the British Empire



The American criminal jury



Appellate courts and civil juries



Europe's new jury systems: the cases of Spain and Russia



Citizen participation in judicial decision making: juries, lay judges and Japan



The Jury Selection Process


The representative jury requirement: jury representativeness and cross sectional participation from the beginning to the end of the jury selection process



Case studies of pre- and mid-trial prejudice in criminal and civil litigation



Assessing pre-trial publicity effects: integrating content analytic results



Juror Judgments of Trial Evidence


Sexual harassment stories: testing a story-mediated model of juror decision making in civil litigation



Juror competence in processing complex information: implications from a simulation of the Maxwell trial



Jurors' evaluations of expert testimony: judging the messenger and the message



The eye of everyman: witnessing DNA in the Simpson trial



Folk knowledge as legal action: death penalty judgments and the tenet of early release in a culture of mistrust and punitiveness



Jury Deliberation Processes


Civic awakening in the jury room: a test of the connection between jury deliberation and political participation



A meta-analysis of the effects of jury size



The hung jury: the American jury's insights and contemporary understanding



Jury Research and Jury Reform


Juror comprehension and public policy: oerceived problems and proposed solutions



Inside the jury room: evaluating juror discussions during trial



Precious little guidance: jury instruction on damage awards



Reconciling experimental incoherence with real-world coherence in punitive damages



Index