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Showing 1 to 19 of 19 for “"mock juror"”.
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Mock juror perceptions of juvenile defendants in adult court
The focus of this study is on individual juror's perceptions of juveniles that have been remanded to the adult court system for trial. Jurors are expected to be harsher on juveniles tried in adult court than they would be on adults who committed the same crime. Participants recruited from students …
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Race and ethnicity influences on mock-juror evaluations of eyewitness testimony.
… race/ethnicity 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 …
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Mock Juror Understanding of Complex Testimony: the Flynn Effect in Atkins Cases
… complexity of their testimony would influence mock jurors' diagnostic determinations. Undergraduate students were exposed to testimony on the Flynn effect (a statistical phenomenon relevant to IQ scores and ID determinations) that varied in complexity. Credentials of the testifying defense …
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Wrongful Conviction Documentaries: Influences of Crime Media Exposure on Mock Juror Decision-Making
… information about a criminal trial can influence jurors’ attitudes, these effects do not always translate into informed case decisions (Holmgren & Fordham, 2011; Kim et al., 2009). This research aimed to answer the following question: does exposure to commentary on the risk factors of wrongful …
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Indigenous Victims with Mental Illness: The Influence of Stereotypes and Stigma on Mock-Juror Perceptions
This study examined jurors’ perceptions of victim race and mental illness as a function of defendant race in a mock-juror decision-making context. Victim race (Indigenous vs. White) and Mental Illness (substance abuse vs. schizophrenia vs. no mental illness) along with officer’s race (Indigenous …
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Compounding Prejudice? Investigating Canadian Mock Juror Perceptions of Victim Race and Work in the Sex Trade
… sex trade (sex worker, non-sex worker) affected mock juror verdicts in a first-degree murder trial. Although victim race and involvement in sex work did not significantly affect juror verdicts, victim blame was affected by stereotypes about Indigenous women and sex workers, as well as negative …
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The impact of gruesome evidence on mock juror decision making : the role of evidence characteristics and emotional response
… investigate the effects of gruesome evidence on mock jurors? decisions in a simulated capital trial. The first experiment was designed as a replication and extension of Douglas, Lyon, and Ogloff (1997), who found that mock jurors who were presented with gruesome photographic evidence were nearly …
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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
… 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 jury diversity. Furthermore, the LC acknowledged some aggravated offences have …
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Mental disorder labelling as an extralegal variable in mock jury deliberations
… (extralegal variables) can and do influence juror’s judgements. This is of importance as only the legally relevant facts of the case should be considered during a trial. The present study investigates the influence of victim characteristics on the juror decision making process during …
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The Effects of Variations of Victim Impact Statements on Juror Bias
… has found an effect of these variations on mock juror bias in capital trials. The current study examined if variations such as changing the strength of emotion, crime type, and including sentencing recommendation within a VIS affects the judgements of mock jurors. The results showed the …
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Black Sheep Effects on Juror Verdicts
… of the black sheep. Participants acted as mock jurors and chose a verdict for the defendant based on a vignette followed by a photo of the defendant. Race, the commonality shared between the defendants and mock jurors, acted as an automatic group divider. Participants analyzed were of …
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The Effects of Perceived Injustice on Deference to the Law
… with the law was measured in the context of mock juror verdict preferences. Results indicated that where exposure to a perceived unjust outcome made racial and gender group membership salient, the relationship between perceived injustice and compliance was affected by group identity.
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Juvenile Court Judges and their Concerns about Vulnerability, Experienced Uncertainty and the Law: Extralegal Factors, Legal Considerations and Judicial Transfer Decision-making
… (i.e., death-laden prosecutorial statements) on mock-juror behavior. In Study 2, a mock-waiver hearing vignette was embedded in an experimental-based survey. Sixty-four juvenile court judges provided data regarding the relations between ecological MS induction, social information-processing mode, …
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Juror Bias in a Mock Case Involving a Defendant With Kleptomania
<p>Jurors are instructed to only consider legal factors when making verdict and sentencing recommendations, but research has shown that biases can still affect these decisions. For instance, research has found that jurors can be influenced by both the type of defendant mental illness (Higgins, …
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First impressions from the jury box: how the length of expert testimony influences mock trial deliberations
The present study examined the influence that a juror's first impressions of an expert witness might have on two outcomes: judgments 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" …
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Effects of joint trials on the proportion of guilty verdicts assigned to defendants
… that this is the case. This study used a mock juror paradigm to investigate whether joint trials are biasing toward defendants. Results indicated that there was not a significant difference in the proportion of guilty/not-guilty verdicts across one, two, and three defendant trial …
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The ‘non-ideal’ victim: factors influencing perceptions of sexual abuse victims
… access to justice. The first study adopted a mock-juror paradigm and study two saw the development and use of the brand new Interactive Mock Call (IMC) paradigm.<br/><br/>Study one showed that intoxicated victims are viewed less favourably and are perceived as less credible than sober …
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Biases toward defendants in joint criminal trials
… by examining the impact of evidence strength on juror decision making in joint and single trials of the same defendant. Sixty mock juror university students were required to listen to an audiotaped trial summary about a hypothetical assault case that followed the same procedure as would be …
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Normalizing Violence Against Women: What Motivates People to Justify the Gender System?
… the system is fair and just. The purpose of this mock juror experiment was to understand what factors motivate people to justify the gender system by blaming the victim and exonerating the perpetrator in affirmative consent cases (i.e., an alleged rape in which the victim claims consent was not …