Experimental Research on Jury Decision-Making
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Experimental research on jury decision-making.
Because trial juries deliberate in secrecy, legal debates about jury functioning have relied heavily on anecdote and speculation. In recent years, investigators have begun to challenge many common assumptions about jury behavior. An important tool in this effort has been the mock jury experiment, in which research participants are randomly assigned to alternative trial conditions and asked to r...
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عنوان ژورنال: Science
سال: 1989
ISSN: 0036-8075,1095-9203
DOI: 10.1126/science.244.4908.1046