Jury Decision Making: The State of the Science

Jury Decision Making: The State of the Science

by Dennis J. Devine
Jury Decision Making: The State of the Science

Jury Decision Making: The State of the Science

by Dennis J. Devine

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Overview

While jury decision making has received considerable attention from social scientists, there have been few efforts to systematically pull together all the pieces of this research. In Jury Decision Making, Dennis J. Devine examines over 50 years of research on juries and offers a "big picture" overview of the field.





The volume summarizes existing theories of jury decision making and identifies what we have learned about jury behavior, including the effects of specific courtroom practices, the nature of the trial, the characteristics of the participants, and the evidence itself. Making use of those foundations, Devine offers a new integrated theory of jury decision making that addresses both individual jurors and juries as a whole and discusses its ramifications for the courts.





Providing a unique combination of broad scope, extensive coverage of the empirical research conducted over the last half century, and theory advancement, this accessible and engaging volume offers "one-stop shopping" for scholars, students, legal professionals, and those who simply wish to better understand how well the jury system works.


Product Details

ISBN-13: 9780814720196
Publisher: New York University Press
Publication date: 08/06/2012
Series: Psychology and Crime , #8
Pages: 283
Product dimensions: 5.90(w) x 8.90(h) x 0.70(d)

About the Author

Dennis J. Devine is Associate Professor in the Department of Psychology at Indiana University-Purdue University Indianapolis. His work has been published in numerous professional journals, including Law and Human Behavior; Psychology, Public Policy, and Law; Journal of Empirical Legal Studies; and Journal of Applied Social Psychology.

Table of Contents

Acknowledgments ix

List of Abbreviations xi

Introduction 1

1 The Lay of the Empirical Land 5

2 Models of Juror and Jury Decision Making 21

3 Jury-Related Trial Practices 41

4 Effects of Trial Context 68

5 Trial Participant Characteristics 91

6 The Evidence 122

7 Deliberation 152

8 An Integrative Multi-Level Theory of Jury Decision Making 181

9 So What? Implications and Future Directions 211

Bibliography 233

Index 263

About the Author 272

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From the Publisher

A lucid, sure-footed tour of the unwieldy research literature on jurors and juries. In addition to offering fresh insights into past research, Devine proposes an ambitious agenda for future research. His integrative theory of jury decision making has the potential to generate much-needed new research and to reveal unnoticed connections between seemingly unrelated findings. Essential reading for both scholars and students."-Mark Costanzo,Professor of Psychology, Claremont McKenna College

“Add this book to the list of milestones in the study of jury decision making. Not only has Dennis Devine provided an impressively comprehensive review of scholarly research on the question of how jurors and juries make decisions, he also offers a theory that ties the findings together, and does it all in an eminently readable way.”

-Edie Greene,University of Colorado at Colorado Springs

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