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Decision Rules, Attitude Similarity, and Jury Decision-Making
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System Justification and Normative Influence: Jury Decision-Making in a Police Shooting Trial
… This research has implications for understanding jury decision-making processes and how to instruct jurors.
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The Effects of Race and Evidence on Jury Decision-Making in Sexual Harassment Cases
… irrelevant) factor and the amount of evidence on jury decision making. Specifically, the race of the defendant served as the extralegal factor, while the amount of evidence presented was determined in relation to how many variables (0, 2, or 4 sources of evidence) were included in a particular …
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Are they right or wrong? Investigating the ability to judge the accuracy of eyewitnesses in same-and -other race identifications
… effect in the context of eyewitnesses and jury decision-making. The main goal of my thesis was to gain further insight into participants’ knowledge of the cross-race effect and how this impacted participants’ discrimination of same- and cross-race identifications. One hundred fifty-nine …
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Sensitizing the general public: experiential processing alters perceptions of confession evidence and minimization
… validity of the study. Implications for jury decision making are discussed.
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First impressions from the jury box: how the length of expert testimony influences mock trial deliberations
… of the witness' credibility, and verdict decisions in a criminal case involving a Not Guilty by Insanity (NGRI) defense. This was the first study to use "thin slice" methodology to manipulate time exposed to expert testimony and assess reliability of witness credibility ratings over time. …
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An exploration of the impact of LGBT+ representative mock-juries on mock-juror bias and guilty verdicts in transphobic hate crime cases
… homogenous juries and the extra influence of the jury foreperson, yet UK juries are significantly under-represented in terms of LGBT+ jurors and jury forepersons. The Law Commission (LC, 2020) recommended aggravated offences be extended to transphobic hate crimes, but failed to address the lack of …
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A Mixed Method Investigation of the Factors that Influence Juror Interpretation of Forensic Science Testimony Presented for the Prosecution in Nine Homicide Trials in the United States
… of the circumstances of a given case. In a jury trial, it is the responsibility of the jury to listen to, assimilate, comprehend and to place the appropriate weight on the expert testimony in their final decision making.<br/><br/>Knowledge of how juries comprehend forensic science evidence …
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The Parallel Jury: Describing Its Processes and Procedures and Evaluating Its Effectiveness in Predicting Jury Verdicts
<p>Due to skepticism and fear surrounding jury trials, 99% of cases in the U.S. are settled and less than 1% make it to a jury trial (AO Reports, 2023). To address the uncertainty surrounding jury trials, which are nearing extinction, lawyers have relied on methods, like trial simulations to …
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To Conform or Not to Conform: An Examination of the Effects of Mock Jury Deliberation on Individual Jurors
<p>The jury method is a unique social setting in the Criminal Justice system that provides opportunity for social influence to occur. Questions about the formation of jurors’ individual and collective decisions have stimulated a great deal of interest and research. This study is a review of the …
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Diversity's Impact on the Quality of Deliberations
… legal system on a variety of different outcomes, jury decisions in particular. Courts and researchers propose increasing diversity in juries as a method for improving jury deliberations and reducing racially biased outcomes for minority defendants (<em>Peters v. Kiff</em>, 1972; Sommers 2006). In …
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Race and ethnicity influences on mock-juror evaluations of eyewitness testimony.
… to examine their influence on mock jurors' decisions in a criminal case. In Experiment 1, Black mock jurors rated the testimony of an eyewitness as more credible and more important to their decisions when the eyewitness and defendant were of the same race, while White mock jurors rated all …
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Persuasion Factors that Influence the Effectiveness of Cross-Examination of a Forensic Expert
… differences should be considered during jury selection due to their influence on the processing of trial information and evidence. The study's findings also synthesize the credibility and persuasion literature.
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Hate: Juror Perceptions of Crime Classification, Attributions of Blame, and Impact of Extra-Legal Factors
<p>A jury simulation paradigm was employed in this series of studies exploring hate crime. In the first two studies., crime label (i.e., bias-motivated assault ·vs. first degree assault) and victim gender were varied within the context of a sexual orientation motivated (study 1) or gender motivated …
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The ‘non-ideal’ victim: factors influencing perceptions of sexual abuse victims
This paper tries to investigate factors which influence perceptions of victims of sexual assault, namely ‘non-ideal’ victims. A ‘non-ideal’ victim is someone who does not fit into traditional gender or social stereotypes or deviates from other societal norms – these may include attractiveness, …
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Does expert evidence pertaining to battered woman syndrome influence juror verdicts?
This research investigated whether expert evidence pertaining to Battered Woman Syndrome (BWS) influences juror verdicts the legal requirements of self defence (imminence, proportionality and an attempt to retreat from the situation) are generally not met in cases where battered women kill their …
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Mental disorder labelling as an extralegal variable in mock jury deliberations
… influence of victim characteristics on the juror decision making process during deliberation and the judgements made about the victim, crime and defendant in a mock jury setting, as well as investigating mock juror gender differences. A representative sample of people eligible for jury duty in …
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Mock jurors' judgements of the victim, crime and defendant as a function of victim race and deliberation
… must be decided. Research investigating judicial decision-making, however, demonstrates that extra-legal variables often affect jurors' judgements and improperly influence their decision-making. Examples of extra-legal variables include the personal attributes of trial participants, e.g., the …