Hiroshi Fukurai, Edgar W. Butler, Richard Krooth

Race and the Jury (eBook, PDF)

Racial Disenfranchisement and the Search for Justice

• Format: PDF

Produktbeschreibung

In this timely volume, the authors provide a penetrating analysis of the institutional mechanisms perpetuating the related problems of minorities' disenfranchisement and their underrepresentation on juries.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Springer US
• Seitenzahl: 241
• Erscheinungstermin: 29. Juni 2013
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9781489911278
• Artikelnr.: 44171802

Inhaltsangabe

I. Introduction to Race and The Jury.- 1. Race and the Jury.- 2. The Structural Approach to Racial Inequality in the Jury System and Jury Selection.- 3. Jury Selection Procedures: An Overview.- 4. The U.S. Supreme Court, the Constitutional Background of Jury Selection, and Racial Representation.- II. Analyses of Racial Inequality on Juries: Empirical Issues.- 5. Anatomy of Economic Excuses: Organizational Resources and Company Support for an Egalitarian Jury System.- 6. Scientific Jury Selection in Voir Dire: The Hidden Structure of Jury Selection.- 7. The Optimal Design to Obtain a Racially Representative Jury: Cluster-Sampling Methods with the Probability Proportionate to Size Applied to Jury Selection.- 8. The McMartin Trial: Race and Scientific Jury Selection.- References.- Table of Cases.