This volume collects new, high-quality scholarship on the perennially controversial institution of trial by jury. The book provides accounts of the jury's historical development and contemporary use, as well as empirical work on jury selection, jury decision making and jury reform.
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| Introduction | |
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| The Development of Trial by Jury | |
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| Historical and Contemporary Perspectives | |
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| The international development of the jury: the role of the British Empire | |
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| The American criminal jury | |
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| Appellate courts and civil juries | |
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| Europe's new jury systems: the cases of Spain and Russia | |
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| Citizen participation in judicial decision making: juries, lay judges and Japan | |
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| The Jury Selection Process | |
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| The representative jury requirement: jury representativeness and cross sectional participation from the beginning to the end of the jury selection process | |
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| Case studies of pre- and mid-trial prejudice in criminal and civil litigation | |
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| Assessing pre-trial publicity effects: integrating content analytic results | |
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| Juror Judgments of Trial Evidence | |
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| Sexual harassment stories: testing a story-mediated model of juror decision making in civil litigation | |
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| Juror competence in processing complex information: implications from a simulation of the Maxwell trial | |
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| Jurors' evaluations of expert testimony: judging the messenger and the message | |
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| The eye of everyman: witnessing DNA in the Simpson trial | |
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| Folk knowledge as legal action: death penalty judgments and the tenet of early release in a culture of mistrust and punitiveness | |
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| Jury Deliberation Processes | |
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| Civic awakening in the jury room: a test of the connection between jury deliberation and political participation | |
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| A meta-analysis of the effects of jury size | |
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| The hung jury: the American jury's insights and contemporary understanding | |
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| Jury Research and Jury Reform | |
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| Juror comprehension and public policy: oerceived problems and proposed solutions | |
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| Inside the jury room: evaluating juror discussions during trial | |
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| Precious little guidance: jury instruction on damage awards | |
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| Reconciling experimental incoherence with real-world coherence in punitive damages | |
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| Index | |
