Justice, democracy and the jury

Author(s)

• Gobert, James J.

Bibliographic Information

Justice, democracy and the jury

James Gobert

Ashgate , Dartmouth, c1997

Note

Includes bibliographical references (p. 227-242) and indexes

Description and Table of Contents

Description

Within this text, James Gobert looks at the role and function of the jury and the individual juror. He examines these from a number of perspectives: legal, historical, political, psychological and philosophical. The objective of the volume is to bring together the lessons to be gleaned from the various disciplines which have studied jury-related issues in an attempt to gain a deeper, fuller understanding of the jury. The American and British jury systems are compared in the book, but the comparative study does not extend to any further countries.

Table of Contents

• Part 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 on a just verdict
• the hierarchy between law and justice. Part 2 Doing justice: the justice of the law
• the justice of sanction
• the jury and legislative reform
• the jury in a resisting roll
• the jury in an individualistic rawly
• the justice of the criminal justice system
• heightening the jury's sensitivity to the demands of justice. Part 3 Judge versus jury: the jury and its critics
• a question of competency
• the problem of bias
• corruptibility
• the judge's dilemma
• the mathematical advantages of the jury
• fact-finding
• the synergism and dialectics of jury deliberation. Part 4 Democracy and the jury: the selection of a jury
• the democracy of the jury
• the democratic dividend
• the jury as democratic determiners of the law
• the democratization of the British jury
• the democratization of US jury
• democracy and the peremptory challenge
• exemptions and excusals. Part 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. Part 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 the jury selection. Part 7 From the world of law to the world at large: the jury as process
• democracy in decline
• recapturing democracy
• citizens' juries in practice
• learning from citizens juries
• reinventing representative government.

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Details

• NCID: BA34695905
• ISBN:
  • 1855212633
• LCCN: 97013531
• Country Code: uk
• Title Language Code: eng
• Text Language Code: eng
• Place of Publication: Brookfield, Vt.,Aldershot
• Pages/Volumes: x, 253 p.
• Size: 23 cm
• Classification:
  • DC21 : 347.0752
• Subject Headings:
  • LCSH : Democracy
  • LCSH : Jury
  • LCSH : Justice
  • LCSH : Democracy.GB9358428