Cognitive and human factors in legal layperson decision making: Sources of bias in juror decision making

LJ Curley, J Munro, IE Dror - Medicine, Science and the Law, 2022 - journals.sagepub.com
Juries in adversarial courts are tasked with several responsibilities. They are asked to: 1)
assess the credibility and reliability of the evidence presented; 2) deliberate; 3) and then …

Are legal experts better decision makers than jurors? A psychological evaluation of the role of juries in the 21st century

L Curley, T Neuhaus - Journal of Criminal Psychology, 2024 - emerald.com
Purpose The Scottish Government hope to pilot judge only rape trials to increase the
woefully low rape conviction rates in Scotland. The reasoning is that by removing jurors, the …

The role of defendant gender on juror decision-making within a mock sex trafficking case among a jury-eligible community sample

KL Stevens, A Austin, D Wheeler… - Journal of sexual …, 2022 - Taylor & Francis
Sex trafficking is considered a public health emergency, although there is public confusion
about the crime. Defendant gender has been demonstrated to affect juror decision-making …

[PDF][PDF] Are legal experts better decision makers than jurors?

L Curley, T Neuhaus - A psychological, 2024 - researchgate.net
The Scottish government hope to pilot judge only rape trials to increase the woefully low
rape conviction rates in Scotland. The reasoning is that by removing jurors, the court will be …

[HTML][HTML] Rape myths and verdict systems: what is influencing conviction rates in rape trials in Scotland?

LJ Curley, M Lages, PJ Sime, J Munro - Behavioral Sciences, 2024 - mdpi.com
The Scottish verdict system includes three verdicts:'guilty','not guilty'and 'not proven'.
Politicians propose that the three-verdict system is partially to blame for the low conviction …

Proven and not proven: A potential alternative to the current Scottish verdict system

LJ Curley, J Munro, J Turner, LA Frumkin… - … Sciences & the law, 2022 - Wiley Online Library
The current Scottish verdict system includes three verdicts:'guilty','not guilty'and 'not proven'.
The Scottish Government are currently reviewing the utility of the not proven verdict …

The effect of verdict system on juror decisions: a quantitative meta-analysis

E Jackson, L Curley, F Leverick… - … , Psychology and Law, 2024 - Taylor & Francis
We study the effect of the Scottish three-verdict system (guilty, not guilty, not proven) and the
Anglo-American two-verdict system (guilty, not guilty) on juror decisions by combining data …

[图书][B] Sexual History Evidence in Rape Trials: Is the Jury Out?

C Herriott - 2023 - library.oapen.org
This book provides an in-depth examination of current, high-profile debates about the use of
sexual history evidence in rape trials and its impact on jurors. In doing so, it presents …

Battered Woman Syndrome as a Legal Defense in Cases of Intimate Partner Homicide

CC Marshall - 2023 - search.proquest.com
There is limited research on jurors' perception of female defendants who assert battered
woman syndrome (BWS) after being charged with the murder of their abuser. Individuals …

An interdisciplinary re-perspectivation of the study of heuristics, biases, and nudges

T Neuhaus, LJ Curley - New Trends in Social and Liberal …, 2023 - researchonline.gcu.ac.uk
The following text starts with an assumption that current psychological research is primarily
quantitative in nature and–despite its great contributions–misses out on the potentials lying …