PSYC 241 Chapter Notes -Suggestibility, Moodle, Jury Nullification
31 Jan 2014
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This schematic demonstrates how cases move through the criminal justice system. As you can see the trial is only one part of the criminal justice system. Voir dire: pretrial interview conducted by a judge and lawyers to screen potential jury members for bias. The current method is scientific jury selection, see next. Scientific jury selection: a method of selecting juries through surveys that yield correlations between demographics and trial- relevant attitudes. It is unclear as to how effective scientific jury selection actually is. Therefore people or institutions that can afford the service have an unfair advantage that dupes the sake of justice. Black and white jury members were presented with a case that held either strong or weak evidence. The defendant was either their same race or the other race. It is important to note that this was just a study and not a finding necessarily observed in a trial.
