The concerns of jury research have extensively focused on subject selection, yet larger issues loom. We argue that observed differences between students and non-students in mock juror studies are inconsistent at best, and that researchers are ignoring the more important issue of jury deliberation. We contend that the lack of information on deliberating jurors and/or juries is a much greater thr...

The impact that the perceived violence of a crime has on jury decision making has received much controversy lately. Violence may affect juries by how it is presented, as in the case of graphic evidence; its evidentiary purpose, as in establishing a history of violence in domestic abuse cases; and in sentencing, when the question of the heinousness of the crime is raised. Many judicial experts a...

At first sight, there may appear to be little connection between Statistics and Law. On closer inspection it can be seen that the problems they tackle are in many ways identical — although they go about them in very different ways. In a broad sense, each subject can be regarded as concerned with the Interpretation of Evidence. I owe my own introduction to the common ground between the two activ...

We take a game-theoretic approach to the analysis of juries by modelling voting as a game of incomplete information. Rather than the usual assumption of two possible signals (one indicating guilt, the other innocence), we allow jurors to perceive a full spectrum of signals. Given any voting rule requiring a fixed fraction of votes to convict, we characterize the unique symmetric equilibrium of ...

The impact of stressful life events has been studied extensively in the psychiatric literature. Crisis debriefing techniques have been shown to be effective in decreasing psychiatric morbidity following exposure to these stressful situations. Stress reactions and crisis debriefing have been reported in many groups including combat veterans, survivors of natural disasters and accidents, victims ...