Contemporary Challenges in the Jury System (eBook, PDF)

A Comparative Perspective
Redaktion: Monaghan, Nicola

• Format: PDF

Produktbeschreibung

This work explores issues facing contemporary juries, such as rapid advances in technology, changing dynamics and behaviours in society, and challenges aggravated by the Covid-19 pandemic. It presents research from various disciplines and jurisdictions, taking legal, psychological and criminological perspectives.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Taylor & Francis
• Seitenzahl: 226
• Erscheinungstermin: 5. Juli 2024
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9781040086902
• Artikelnr.: 70723008

Autorenporträt

Nicola Monaghan is Principal Lecturer in Law at the University of Worcester. She teaches criminal law and the law of evidence, and her research focuses on jury misconduct and how we might improve the jury trial in order to protect the institution of the jury.

Inhaltsangabe

List of contributors vii Preface x Foreword xi 1 Challenges facing
contemporary jury trial 1 NICOLA MONAGHAN 2 Helping the jury to do their
job 7 PETER HUNGERFORD-WELCH 3 When the parties call for jury
nullification: A comparative analysis 27 KAY CROSBY 4 Reconsidering the
position of jurors with specialist knowledge or expertise 45 NICOLA
MONAGHAN 5 Remote justice: undermining trial by jury? Exploring the reasons
for keeping the jury in the room 67 DANIEL JASINSKI 6 Another case of
Hibernian exceptionalism? Jury trial in Ireland 82 MARK COEN 7 The Scottish
jury in the 21st century: challenges and changes 100 PAMELA R. FERGUSON 8
The surprising endurance of trial by jury: A perspective from the United
States 117 VALERIE P. HANS 9 Jury trial in Japan: third time lucky? 131
MERYLL DEAN 10 (Un)reasonable beliefs: how rape myth beliefs impact (mock)
juror decision-making in Northern Ireland and how potential bias might be
lessened 150 ROSIE COWAN 11 Jury trials and rape myth bias: exploring the
research evidence, stakeholder perspectives and effective solutions 167
DOMINIC WILLMOTT AND LARA HUDSPITH 12 A critique of the experimental study
of juror decision-making: challenges and recommendations 189 LEE JOHN
CURLEY AND NICOLA PEDDIE Index 207