American juries : the verdict / Neil Vidmar & Valerie P. Hans.
Record details
- ISBN: 9781591025887
- ISBN: 1591025885
- Physical Description: 428 pages ; 24 cm
- Publisher: Amherst, N.Y. : Prometheus Books, 2007.
Content descriptions
Bibliography, etc. Note: | Includes bibliographical references (pages 347-397) and index. |
Formatted Contents Note: | The English origins of the modern jury : from trial by ordeal to the decline of the "little parliament" -- Criminal and civil juries in America from colonial times to the present day : evolution, a heroic role, and controversy -- A jury of peers : democratic goals -- Jury selection : juror bias, juror challenges, and trial consultants -- Problem cases : pretrial publicity -- The tasks of the jury : evidence evaluation and jury decision-making processes -- Judging the jury : evaluating jurors' comprehension of evidence and law -- Trials in a scientific age : juries judging experts -- Judging criminal responsibility : erroneous convictions, the CSI effect, and the victim's role -- Deciding insanity : mad or bad? -- Jury nullification : the war with the law -- Death is different : juries and capital punishment -- Civil liability : plaintiff vs. defendant in the eyes of the jury -- Deciding compensatory damages : million dollar questions -- Punitive damages : coffee spills and Marlboro cigarettes -- Juries and medical malpractice : antidoctor, incompetent, and irresponsible? -- Concluding : the verdict on juries. |
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Subject: | Jury > United States. Verdicts > United States. Damages > United States. |
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- 1 of 1 copy available at Kirtland Community College.
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Location | Call Number / Copy Notes | Barcode | Shelving Location | Status | Due Date |
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Kirtland Community College Library | KF 8972 .V53 2007 | 30775305484462 | General Collection | Available | - |
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Here, Vidmar (law & psychology, Duke Univ.) and Hans (law, Cornell Univ.)-coauthors of Judging the Jury-"examine what juries do and what research tells us about their performance." Chapters cover the history of juries, jury selection, tasks of the jury, judging evidence, judging criminal responsibility and insanity, the death penalty, and civil liability and include plentiful references to historical and contemporary cases as well as discussion of available research studies. These studies include interesting comparisons of judge and jury verdicts, how juries understand the law, how jurors evaluate evidence, the role of race in jury decision making, and the impact of the death-qualification process in capital cases. Hundreds of books have been written on juries, e.g., Randolph N. Jonakait's The American Jury System, but the strength of this book is its topic-by-topic presentation of research studies. Well suited to ambitious undergraduates and scholars, it is essential for law libraries and academic libraries with strong law, criminal justice, public policy, and social sciences collections.-Mary Jane Brustman, SUNY at Albany Libs. (c) Copyright 2010. Library Journals LLC, a wholly owned subsidiary of Media Source, Inc. No redistribution permitted.