Death by jury : group dynamics and capital sentencing / / Nadine M. Connell
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| Autore: |
Connell Nadine M. <1979->
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| Titolo: |
Death by jury : group dynamics and capital sentencing / / Nadine M. Connell
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| Pubblicazione: | El Paso, : LFB Scholarly Pub., 2009 |
| Edizione: | 1st ed. |
| Descrizione fisica: | 1 online resource (224 p.) |
| Disciplina: | 345.73/0773 |
| Soggetto topico: | Capital punishment - United States |
| Verdicts - United States | |
| Jury - United States - Decision making - Evaluation | |
| Discrimination in criminal justice administration - United States | |
| Note generali: | Description based upon print version of record. |
| Nota di bibliografia: | Includes bibliographical references (p. 197-207) and index. |
| Nota di contenuto: | 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. |
| Sommario/riassunto: | 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 |
| Titolo autorizzato: | Death by jury |
| ISBN: | 1-59332-544-4 |
| Formato: | Materiale a stampa  |
| Livello bibliografico | Monografia |
| Lingua di pubblicazione: | Inglese |
| Record Nr.: | 9910815222603321 |
| Lo trovi qui: | Univ. Federico II |
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Serie:
Criminal justice (LFB Scholarly Publishing LLC)