Download or read book Race and the Jury written by Hiroshi Fukurai and published by Springer Science & Business Media. This book was released on 2013-06-29 with total page 270 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In this timely volume, the authors provide a penetrating analysis of the institutional mechanisms perpetuating the related problems of minorities' disenfranchisement and their underrepresentation on juries.
Download or read book Race in the Jury Box written by Hiroshi Fukurai and published by SUNY Press. This book was released on 2003-08-28 with total page 294 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Discusses race-conscious jury selection and highlights strategies for achieving racially mixed juries.
Download or read book Race and Juries written by Samuel R. Sommers and published by . This book was released on 2002 with total page 456 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Race in the Jury Box written by Hiroshi Fukurai and published by State University of New York Press. This book was released on 2012-02-01 with total page 289 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Race in the Jury Box focuses on the racially unrepresentative jury as one of the remaining barriers to racial equality and a recurring source of controversy in American life. Because members of minority groups remain underrepresented on juries, various communities have tried race-conscious jury selection, termed "affirmative jury selection." The authors argue that affirmative jury selection can insure fairness, verdict legitimization, and public confidence in the justice system. This book offers a critical analysis and systematic examination of possible applications of race-based jury selection, examining the public perception of these measures and their constitutionality. The authors make use of court cases, their own experiences as jury consultants, and jury research, as well as statistical surveys and analysis. The work concludes with the presentation of four strategies for affirmative jury selection.
Download or read book American Juries written by Neil Vidmar and published by Prometheus Books. This book was released on 2009-09-25 with total page 428 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This monumental and comprehensive volume reviews more than 50 years of empirical research on civil and criminal juries and returns a verdict that strongly supports the jury system.
Download or read book Race and the Jury written by Equal Justice Initiative and published by . This book was released on 2021 with total page 105 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book The Juror Factor written by Sean G. Overland and published by LFB Scholarly Publishing. This book was released on 2009 with total page 198 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Juror Factor examines how jurors reach their verdicts in complex civil trials. In particular, the book explores the relationship between "juror factors" - that is, jurors' race, gender, income, education and personal beliefs - and verdicts. While most research has found no link between verdicts and "juror factors," this book, using new, previously unavailable data, argues that the composition of a jury can have a strong effect on the outcome of a trial. The book also explores the implications of this relationship for jury selection procedures and tort reform proposals. The book's final chapter offers a glimpse behind the closed doors of the jury room and a look at the effects of jury deliberations.
Download or read book Why Jury Duty Matters written by Andrew G. Ferguson and published by NYU Press. This book was released on 2012-12-01 with total page 252 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Places the idea of jury duty into perspective, noting its importance as a constitutional responsibility, and describes ways in which the experience may be enriched.
Download or read book Racial Prejudice Juror Empathy and Sentencing in Death Penalty Cases written by Bryan C. Edelman and published by LFB Scholarly Publishing. This book was released on 2006 with total page 226 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book The Jury Under Fire written by Brian H. Bornstein and published by Oxford University Press. This book was released on 2017 with total page 417 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Jury Under Fire reviews a number of controversial beliefs about juries that have persisted in recent years as well as the implications of these views for jury reform efforts. Each chapter focuses on a mistaken assumption or myth about jurors or juries, critiques the myth, and then uses social science research findings to suggest appropriate reforms.
Download or read book Equal Justice and the Death Penalty written by David C. Baldus and published by UPNE. This book was released on 1990 with total page 734 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Under Indictment Race Juries Justice in Louisiana written by Angela A Allen-Bell and published by Spines. This book was released on 2024-08-02 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Four years ago, I set out to write a book that memorialized the change from non-unanimous juries back to jury unanimity in Louisiana. The ending was going to celebrate the death of Jim Crow juries. Before the ink could dry on that project, there were signs of Jim Crow lurking still. This time, it was not non-unanimous juries. It was the jury of twelve that we sought, but it was not the jury box that we imagined. Now, the twelve jurors, more often than not, were all white. People of color still-even after the death of non-unanimous juries-were not experiencing the unique power that the jury box could grant them. Accused people still weren't experiencing the full protections of the Sixth Amendment. To do justice to the topic of Jim Crow juries or jury suppression, the discussion must long predate non-unanimous juries. In fact, it can't begin with juries at all. By necessity, the beginning has to be at the beginning-at the point law and race were joined to create diminished procedural safeguards for those of color, as well as different rights and different restrictions. To be credible, conversations about race and juries must always be anchored to this history. This book does that work and, in doing so, establishes the jury as a specific site of systemic racism both for the accused person of color and for the juror or prospective juror of color. After, it assesses the impact of years of systemic inequities within the legal system. The book illuminates a legal system that operates much like an assembly line. It moves fast, is solely interested in profits and production, is automated and impersonal. Specifically, this book seeks to: (1) aid the reader in viewing Louisiana's unanimous jury campaign in its racial and historical context; (2) examine the historical connection between Black juror suppression and how it is bound up in the creation and perpetuation of race and supremacy; (3) situate the jury at the center of a carceral state polluted with bias, supremacy and racism, as well as an urge to respond punitively to the most basic of human transgressions; (4) help readers achieve a holistic and comprehensive view of Louisiana's legal system and the competing factors and interests that have shaped it and led to it becoming harmful to most who come in contact with it; and, (5) to awaken a desire for transformation.
Download or read book Handbook for trial jurors serving in the United States District Courts written by and published by . This book was released on 2003 with total page 16 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: ... The purpose of this handbook is to acquaint trial jurors with the general nature and importance of their role as jurors; explains some of the language and procedures used in court, and offers some suggestions helpful to jurors in performing their duty ...
Download or read book Race and the Jury written by Equal Justice Initiative and published by . This book was released on 2021 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The report documents the country’s long history of tolerating racial bias in jury selection and a continuing indifference to correcting widespread underrepresentation of people of color on juries. Race-based discrimination in jury selection was outlawed nearly 150 years ago. But as we detailed in our 2010 report on illegal racial discrimination in jury selection, the problem is a continuing legacy of our history of racial injustice. The problem persists because those who perpetrate or tolerate racial bias—including trial and appellate courts, defense lawyers, lawmakers, and prosecutors—act with impunity. Courts that fail to create jury lists that fairly represent their communities face no repercussions. Prosecutors who unlawfully strike Black people from juries don’t get fined, sanctioned, or held accountable. Several states, including California, Washington, Connecticut, and New Jersey, have recognized the problem and implemented reforms or initiated studies. But other states have hesitated to address the problem. Most states have done nothing.
Download or read book Raising Issues of Race in North Carolina Criminal Cases written by Alyson Grine and published by . This book was released on 2014-11-12 with total page 374 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: View this manual, a reference in the School's Indigent Defense Manual Series, free of charge at defendermanuals.sog.unc.edu. Raising Issues of Race in North Carolina Criminal Cases is a resource for public defenders and appointed counsel who represent poor people accused of crimes. This publication is also useful to judges, prosecutors, and others who work to safeguard the integrity of the court system. The book describes the ways in which considerations of race may improperly enter into the conduct of a criminal case, and gathers, organizes, and analyzes the law on the intersection of race and the criminal justice system. Ten chapters cover a variety of topics, such as: -stops, searches, and arrests; -eyewitness identification; -pretrial release; -selective prosecution; -composition of grand and trial juries; -trial issues; and -sentencing.
Download or read book Radical Enfranchisement in the Jury Room and Public Life written by Sonali Chakravarti and published by . This book was released on 2019 with total page 159 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Juries have been at the center of some of the most emotionally charged moments of political life. At the same time, their capacity for legitimate decision making has been under scrutiny, because of events like the acquittal of George Zimmerman by a Florida jury for the shooting of Trayvon Martin and the decisions of several grand juries not to indict police officers for the killing of unarmed black men. Meanwhile, the overall use of juries has also declined in recent years, with most cases settled or resolved by plea bargain. With Radical Enfranchisement in the Jury Room and Public Life, Sonali Chakravarti offers a full-throated defense of juries as a democratic institution. She argues that juries provide an important site for democratic action by citizens and that their use should be revived. The jury, Chakravarti argues, could be a forward-looking institution that nurtures the best democratic instincts of citizens, but this requires a change in civic education regarding the skills that should be cultivated in jurors before and through the process of a trial. Being a juror, perhaps counterintuitively, can guide citizens in how to be thoughtful rule-breakers by changing their relationship to their own perceptions and biases and by making options for collective action salient, but they must be better prepared and instructed along the way.
Download or read book Race and the Criminal Justice System written by Gerald A. Reynolds and published by . This book was released on 1996 with total page 100 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
