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Race and the Jury Racial Disenfranchisement and the Search for Justice
Título:
Race and the Jury Racial Disenfranchisement and the Search for Justice
ISBN:
9781489911278
Autor personal:
Edición:
1st ed. 1993.
PRODUCTION_INFO:
New York, NY : Springer US : Imprint: Springer, 1993.
Descripción física:
XVI, 241 p. 9 illus. online resource.
Serie:
The Plenum Series in Crime and Justice
Contenido:
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.
Síntesis:
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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