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 …

Decision science is an area of enquiry that crosses many disciplines, from psychology to
economics, each with their own perspective of decision-making. Traditionally …

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 …

Cognitive bias is an umbrella term used to explain subjective perceptions of people, objects
and/or events that deviate from a normative framework [1]. Biases are normally created …

The Scottish verdict of not proven represents a second acquittal verdict which is not legally
defined. Existing research into the influence of the not proven verdict on jury decision …

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 …

Purpose Since the passage of the Double Jeopardy (Scotland) Act 2011, mirroring changes
in other jurisdictions, a person who has been acquitted in Scotland can, under certain …

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 …

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 …

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 …