Lee Curley and Kay Lynn Stevens compare how juries, trials, and jury research studies work in the UK and in the United States
Category: Law
My OpenLearn Profile
Personalise your OpenLearn profile, save your favourite content and get recognition for your learning
Hubs: Jury Hub
Courses tagged with "Hubs: Jury Hub"
Lee Curley and Dominic Willmott discuss their interests in the field of jury research, and recent developments in this area of study.
Category: Law
What is the job of the jury? Why can it be difficult? Enjoy this short video introduction to our jury hub.
Category: Law
Lee Curley and James Munro compare the ideas and attitudes to the future of rape trials in Scotland.
Category: Law
Caroline Derry and Ian M. Kennedy debate the effects of forensic and linguistic distinctions on real-life decision making.
Category: Law
Professor Fiona Leverick deciphers the mysteries of one of jurors' most important decisions.
Category: Law
Professor James Chalmers reports on the findings - and questions - brought about by the Scottish Jury Research project.
Category: Law
What is the 'story model' theory - and how can it be applied to understanding jury decision making?
Category: Law
What is the impact of jury duty? How can we tackle the trauma and support jurors?
Category: Law
The main aim of this study was to investigate if jurors violate the regularity principle, which is commonly incorporated in many rational choice models, by testing if the introduction of the not proven verdict has an impact on the outcomes given by jurors.
Category: Law
Assessing the prevalence, impact and type of cognitive bias on decision making in different parts of the justice system should be prioritised to ensure continued trust in the system.
Category: Law
We welcome a constructive debate on the merits of rigorous and ecologically valid research on cognitive bias in forensic decisions.
Category: Law
The main aim of the current study was to investigate the influence of verdict systems (two vs three) on juror decision making.
Category: Law
The aim of the current study was to test the effects of a Scottish verdict system on verdicts given, when compared to alternative verdict systems.
Category: Law
From CSI to Law and Order, Line of Duty and Midsomer Murders, there is huge public fascination with crime and the criminal justice system. But how much do jurors get it wrong?
Category: Law
People are often poor eyewitnesses.
Psychologists have been demonstrating this in experiments for years, but the
justice system in the UK has been slow to catch on.
Category: Law
But what are the effects of the not proven
verdict on jurors?
Category: Law
Juror decision-making - how individual jurors evaluate information and examines their pre-trial biases and the cognitive mechanisms behind the verdicts they reach.
Category: Law
At HERC we publish blog articles covering a wide range of issues that broadly relate to harm, evidence, crime and justice. In keeping with the critical position of HERC, our aim is to highlight all sides of the debate and to facilitate a discussion so that all voices are heard on the issue.
Category: Law
Discussion of new research findings regarding attitudes to the Scottish jury system and illustration of the value of interdisciplinary approaches to legal research.
Category: Law