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Jury Decision Making and Social Network Analysis

Jury Decision Making and Social Network Analysis

Hano, Katarzyna

Paperback

General Sociology

ISBN10: 3836438275
ISBN13: 9783836438278
Publisher: Vdm Verlag
Published: Jun 27 2008
Pages: 156
Weight: 0.57
Height: 0.33 Width: 6.69 Depth: 9.61
Language: English
In this work I combine the social network analysis approach with the tradi-tional experimental approach to study the phenomena of jury decision-making. I examine whether with each trial a social network is formed. The jurors, the two teams of lawyers, as well as the accused and the judge, all form a social network with cliques and leaders. This division of individuals into specific cliques, along with the lawyers' performance in court, is hypothesized to have a significant impact on the jury's verdict. Thus, by specifically studying the lawyers' engagement and disengagement on the jurors during a trial and the impact this has on the verdict, as well as understanding the structure of the social network that the individual jurors create, I hope to shed light on some of the influences that are key in delivering the verdict. In addition, this pioneering study may lead to signi-ficant policy changes in the future as well as explain the power of the society on verdicts.

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