Justice, Democracy and the Jury [electronic resource].

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Cover; Half Title; Title; Copyright; Contents; Preface; 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; Conclusion; 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; Conclusion; 3 Judge versus Jury

The jury and its criticsA 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; Conclusion; 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; Conclusion

5 Justice versus DemocracyPeers 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; Conclusion; 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; Conclusion; 7 From the World of Law to the World at Large; The jury as process; Democracy in decline; Recapturing democracy

Learning from citizen's juriesReinventing representative government; Conclusion; Bibliography; Index; Index of Authors Cited

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