Inside the Juror: The Psychology of Juror Decision Making

by Edited by Reid Hastie

• ISBN13: 9780521477550
• ISBN10: 0521477557
• Format: Paperback
• Copyright: 1994-11-25
• Publisher: Cambridge University Press

Summary

Inside the Juror presents the most interesting and sophisticated work to date on juror decision making from several traditions - social psychology, behavioural decision theory, cognitive psychology, and behavioural modeling. The authors grapple with crucial questions, such as: why do jurors who hear the same evidence and arguments in the courtroom enter the jury room with disagreements about the proper verdict? how do biases and prejudices affect jurors' decisions? and just how 'rational' is the typical juror? As an introduction to the scientific study of juror decision making in criminal trials, Inside the Juror provides a comprehensive and understandable summary of the major theories of juror decision making and the research that has been conducted to evaluate their validity.

Table of Contents

Series preface

Editor's preface

Acknowledgments

Part I. Models of Juror Decision Making: 1. Introduction Reid Hastie

2. Some steps between attitudes and verdicts Phoebe C. Ellsworth

3. The influence of outcome information and attitudes on juror decision making in search and seizure cases Jonathan D. Casper and Kennette M. Benedict

4. Algebraic models of juror decision processes Reid Hastie

5. Stochastic models of juror decision making Norbert Kerr

6. Formal and empirical research on cascaded inference in jurisprudence David A. Schum and Anne W. Martin

7. Argument structuring and evidence evaluation David A. Schum

8. The story model for juror decision making Nancy Pennington and Reid Hastie

Part II. Commentaries: 9. Notes on the sampling of stimulus cases and the measurement of responses in research on juror decision making Robyn M. Davies

10. Sausages and the law: juror decisions in the much larger justice system Joseph B. Kadane

11. A rational game theory framework for the analysis of legal and criminal decision making Ehud Kalai

12. Why do jury research? Richard O. Lempert

13. Two conceptions of the juror Lola Lopes

14. A mathematician comments on models of juror decision making Sandy Zabell

Index of names

Index of subjects.