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Religion as a Defense in a Mock-Jury Trial
The Journal of Social Psychology, 1985Abstract Forty-nine residents of “Middletown” and 121 students in the roles of jurors viewed videotapes of an abbreviated child abuse trial, in which the accused was portrayed by a defense attorney as religious or in which his religious character was not used as a defense.
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Asymmetric influence in mock jury deliberation: Jurors' bias for leniency.
Journal of Personality and Social Psychology, 1988Investigators have frequently noted a leniency bias in mock jury research, in which deliberation appears to induce greater leniency in criminal mock jurors. One manifestation of this bias, the asymmetry effect, suggests that proacquittal factions are more influential than proconviction factions of comparable size.
R J, MacCoun, N L, Kerr
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Reactance and Conflict as Determinants of Judgment in a Mock Jury Experiment
Journal of Applied Social Psychology, 1981In a mock jury experiment, college students read a partial transcript of an actual rape case. Transcripts differed in the following ways: damaging evidence was introduced against the defendant, the victim, or an inconsequential witness; following an attorney's objection, the evidence was ruled admissible or inadmissable by the judge; at the end of the ...
Gregory E. Lenehan, Patrick O'Neill
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Biological Evidence Regarding Psychopathy Does Not Affect Mock Jury Sentencing
Journal of Personality Disorders, 2019Research on the biological factors influencing criminal behavior is increasingly being introduced into court, necessitating research on how such evidence is perceived and influences decision makers. Research on how this evidence influences sentencing recommendations is inconclusive. In this study, we focus on biological evidence related to psychopathy,
Rheanna J, Remmel +2 more
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Mock Jury Research: Where Do We Go from Here?
Behavioral Sciences & the Law, 2011This paper reviews the four types of validity that make up Cook and Campbell's traditional approach for social science research in general and psychological research in particular: internal validity, statistical conclusion validity, external validity, and construct validity. The most important generalizability threat to the validity of jury research is
Richard L, Wiener +2 more
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Mock Trial Jury Decisions as a Function of Adolescent Juror Guilt and Hostility
The Journal of Genetic Psychology, 1984A fictitious court case involving child abuse was presented to 277 male adolescent jurors (138 college freshmen, means age = 19.25 years, 139 junior high school males, means age = 13.47 years) in an effort to determine if the tendency to deal harshly with alleged criminals is dependent upon certain personality characteristics of adolescent jurors.
A M, Ackerman, P M, McMahon, L A, Fehr
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The influence of prior relationship on perceptions of stalking in mock jury deliberations
Forensic Update, 2011Ex-partner stalkers are more persistent and more likely to use violence than stranger or acquaintance stalkers, but are less likely to incur criminal convictions. The current research explores the influence of prior relationship on mock jury deliberations and verdict decisions in relation to a hypothetical case tried under the Protection from ...
Adrian J. Scott, Jeff Gavin
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Justice needs a new blindfold: A review of mock jury research.
Psychological Bulletin, 1977Studies on factors that may influence jurors' verdicts are reviewed. These factors include characteristics of the jurors, characteristics of the victim and defendant, judges' instructions regarding pretrial publicity and inadmissible evidence, number and severity of decision alternatives, jurors' conception of guilt, and size of the jury and its ...
Kathleen C. Gerbasi +2 more
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Prediction of first ballot mock jury votes by the Analytic Juror Rater
Journal of Police and Criminal Psychology, 2003Two scales of Abbott's (1987) Analytic Juror Rater (AJR) were used with 24 mock jurors to predict first ballot mock jury votes. Each participant observed one of two mock trial proceedings involving an actual second degree murder case. In a moot courtroom, they heard arguments from attorneys and witnessed examination of the defendant and actors ...
C. Gary Pettigrew, Lewis Unglesby
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Mock juror sampling issues in jury simulation research: A meta-analysis.
Law and Human Behavior, 2017The advantages and disadvantages of jury simulation research have often been debated in the literature. Critics chiefly argue that jury simulations lack verisimilitude, particularly through their use of student mock jurors, and that this limits the generalizabilty of the findings.
Brian H, Bornstein +6 more
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