Real jurors' understanding of the law in real cases
dc.contributor.author | Ellsworth, Phoebe C. | en_US |
dc.date.accessioned | 2006-09-11T15:54:50Z | |
dc.date.available | 2006-09-11T15:54:50Z | |
dc.date.issued | 1992-10 | en_US |
dc.identifier.citation | Ellsworth, Phoebe C.; (1992). "Real jurors' understanding of the law in real cases." Law and Human Behavior 16(5): 539-554. <http://hdl.handle.net/2027.42/45310> | en_US |
dc.identifier.issn | 0147-7307 | en_US |
dc.identifier.issn | 1573-661X | en_US |
dc.identifier.uri | https://hdl.handle.net/2027.42/45310 | |
dc.description.abstract | A survey of 224 Michigan citizens called for jury duty over a 2-month period was conducted to assess the jurors' comprehension of the law they had been given in the judges' instructions. Citizens who served as jurors were compared with a base line of those who were called for duty but not selected to serve, and with those who served on different kinds of cases. Consistent with previous studies of mock jurors, this study found that actual jurors understand fewer than half of the instructions they receive at trial. Subjects who received judges' instructions performed significantly better than uninstructed subjects on questions about the procedural law, but no better on questions about the substantive (criminal) law. Additionally, jurors who asked for help from the judge understood the instructions better than other jurors. Since the results replicate previous research using simulated trials, this study provides evidence for the generalizability of earlier work to actual trials. | en_US |
dc.format.extent | 1307483 bytes | |
dc.format.extent | 3115 bytes | |
dc.format.mimetype | application/pdf | |
dc.format.mimetype | text/plain | |
dc.language.iso | en_US | |
dc.publisher | Kluwer Academic Publishers-Plenum Publishers; Plenum Publishing Corporation ; Springer Science+Business Media | en_US |
dc.subject.other | Psychology | en_US |
dc.subject.other | Social Psychology | en_US |
dc.subject.other | Psychology and Law | en_US |
dc.subject.other | Community & Environmental Psychology | en_US |
dc.subject.other | Criminology | en_US |
dc.title | Real jurors' understanding of the law in real cases | en_US |
dc.type | Article | en_US |
dc.subject.hlbsecondlevel | Law and Legal Studies | en_US |
dc.subject.hlbtoplevel | Government, Politics and Law | en_US |
dc.description.peerreviewed | Peer Reviewed | en_US |
dc.contributor.affiliationum | Research Center for Group Dynamics, University of Michigan, P.O. Box 1248, 48106, Ann Arbor, MI | en_US |
dc.contributor.affiliationumcampus | Ann Arbor | en_US |
dc.description.bitstreamurl | http://deepblue.lib.umich.edu/bitstream/2027.42/45310/1/10979_2005_Article_BF01044622.pdf | en_US |
dc.identifier.doi | http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/BF01044622 | en_US |
dc.identifier.source | Law and Human Behavior | en_US |
dc.owningcollname | Interdisciplinary and Peer-Reviewed |
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