PSYC 2400 Study Guide - Psychopathy, Impulsivity, Foreign Exchange Market
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Characteristics of a jury: offence occurred: representativeness: representative of the community where the, random selection from community, representative of community, various procedures are used to ensure that jury selection is representative of the community. Jury pools over select knowing that a variety of people may not be able to attend: impartiality: that the jury will be objective, and they will base their decisions on the evidence presented at trial about the individual, there is an assumption that jurors will be impartial, forms of partiality, attitudinal (prejudice): people have prejudice. Interest prejudice: this is a form of bias that emerges when a jury member has a direct interest in the case: direct interest in the case, ex: jury member is related to the defendant, ex: business interest where a verdict will benefit you financially, specific prejudice: these are biases that form because a person has attitudes about the specific case that is being tried.
