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Subject(s)

• Capital punishment—United States [Browse]
• Verdicts—United States [Browse]
• Jury—United States—Decision making—Evaluation [Browse]
• Discrimination in criminal justice administration—United States [Browse]

Series

• Criminal justice (LFB Scholarly Publishing LLC) [More in this series]
• Criminal justice

Summary note

Connell focuses on the role that deliberation has on the juror's perception of group functioning, measured here by the construct of group climate. Her results suggest individual juror characteristics do not have a direct effect on sentencing outcomes; rather, the level of group climate acts as a mediating variable between individual characteristics and outcomes. Trial level characteristics directly predict sentencing and indirectly operate through the level of group climate. Group climate is the strongest predictor of outcomes, with juries who have more positive perceptions of group climate mo

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Description based upon print version of record.

Bibliographic references

Includes bibliographical references (p. 197-207) and index.

Language note

English

Contents

• The death penalty and discretion in America
• The role of the jury
• Understanding groups in context
• Measuring groups with the capital jury project
• Testing group dynamics
• What juries do : putting it all together.

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ISBN

1-59332-544-4

OCLC

732955807

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