Race and the Jury: Racial Disenfranchisement and the Search for Justice

by Hiroshi Fukurai, Edgar W. Butler, Richard Krooth

Overview

In this timely volume, the authors provide a penetrating analysis of the institutional mechanisms perpetuating the related problems of minorities' disenfranchisement and their underrepresentation on juries.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9780306441448
Publisher:	Springer US
Publication date:	01/31/1993
Series:	The Plenum Series in Crime and Justice
Edition description:	1993
Pages:	241
Product dimensions:	6.10(w) x 9.25(h) x 0.02(d)

Table of Contents

I. Introduction to Race and The Jury.- 1. Race and the Jury.- 2. The Structural Approach to Racial Inequality in the Jury System and Jury Selection.- 3. Jury Selection Procedures: An Overview.- 4. The U.S. Supreme Court, the Constitutional Background of Jury Selection, and Racial Representation.- II. Analyses of Racial Inequality on Juries: Empirical Issues.- 5. Anatomy of Economic Excuses: Organizational Resources and Company Support for an Egalitarian Jury System.- 6. Scientific Jury Selection in Voir Dire: The Hidden Structure of Jury Selection.- 7. The Optimal Design to Obtain a Racially Representative Jury: Cluster-Sampling Methods with the Probability Proportionate to Size Applied to Jury Selection.- 8. The McMartin Trial: Race and Scientific Jury Selection.- References.- Table of Cases.