Justice, democracy, and the jury. (2019)

• Record Type: Book
• Further Information: Note: James Gobert.
• Other Names: Gobert, James J
• Contents: 1. Justice and the jury. The conventional view of the jury's role -- Clues to a different role -- A four-stage process of adjudication -- Jury justice -- Reaching consensus -- The hierarchy between law and justice. 2. Doing justice. The justice of the law -- The justice of sanctions -- The jury and legislative reform -- The jury in a resisting role -- The jury in an individualizing role -- The justice of the criminal justice system -- Heightening the jury's sensitivity to the demands of justice. 3. Judge versus jury. The jury and its critics -- A question of competency -- The problem of bias -- Corruptibility -- The judge's dilemma -- The mathematical advantage of the jury -- Fact-finding -- The dialectics of deliberation -- The synergism of the deliberations -- Judge and jury decision-making compared. 4. Democracy and the jury. The nature of democracy -- Democratic selection -- Democratic deliberation -- The democratic dividend -- The jury as democratic determiners of the law -- The democratization of the British jury -- The democratization of the US jury -- Democracy and the peremptory challenge. 5. Justice versus Democracy. Peers and prejudice -- Proportional representation -- Democracy's threat to justice -- Conscience versus constituency -- The primacy of justice -- A balancing of biases -- The dynamics of the democratic jury. 6. The selection and training of jurors. Impartiality -- The relationship between knowledge and impartiality -- The myth of the impartial juror -- The search for impartial jurors -- The role of the court in jury selection -- Juror training. 7. From the world of law to the world at large. The jury as process -- Democracy in decline -- Recapturing democracy -- Learning from citizen's juries -- Reinventing representative government.
• Publisher Details: Place of publication not identified : Routledge
• Publication Date: 2019
• Extent: 1 online resource (253 pages)
• Subjects: 347/.0752; Jury; Justice; Democracy; Democracy; Jury; Justice; Demokratie; Gerechtigkeit; Geschworenengericht; Juryrechtspraak; Democracy
• Languages: English
• ISBNs: 9780429676093; 0429676093
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