Inside the Juror presents the most interesting and sophisticated work to date on juror decision making from several traditions - social psychology, behavioural decision theory, cognitive psychology, and behavioural modeling. The authors grapple with crucial questions, such as: why do jurors who hear the same evidence and arguments in the courtroom enter the jury room with disagreements about the proper verdict? how do biases and prejudices affect jurors' decisions? and just how 'rational' is the typical juror? As an introduction to the scientific study of juror decision making in criminal trials, Inside the Juror provides a comprehensive and understandable summary of the major theories of juror decision making and the research that has been conducted to evaluate their validity.
Series preface; Editor's preface; Acknowledgments; Part I. Models of Juror Decision Making: 1. Introduction Reid Hastie; 2. Some steps between attitudes and verdicts Phoebe C. Ellsworth; 3. The influence of outcome information and attitudes on juror decision making in search and seizure cases Jonathan D. Casper and Kennette M. Benedict; 4. Algebraic models of juror decision processes Reid Hastie; 5. Stochastic models of juror decision making Norbert Kerr; 6. Formal and empirical research on cascaded inference in jurisprudence David A. Schum and Anne W. Martin; 7. Argument structuring and evidence evaluation David A. Schum; 8. The story model for juror decision making Nancy Pennington and Reid Hastie; Part II. Commentaries: 9. Notes on the sampling of stimulus cases and the measurement of responses in research on juror decision making Robyn M. Davies; 10. Sausages and the law: juror decisions in the much larger justice system Joseph B. Kadane; 11. A rational game theory framework for the analysis of legal and criminal decision making Ehud Kalai; 12. Why do jury research? Richard O. Lempert; 13. Two conceptions of the juror Lola Lopes; 14. A mathematician comments on models of juror decision making Sandy Zabell; Index of names; Index of subjects.
