Jury decision making

Pre-trial publicity

Characteristics of defendent

Why is it hard to use real life cases to do research on reliability of JDM?

Creator of the Halo effect

What is the halo effect?

Number of ppts in Sigall & Ostrove's 1975 study

Results of Sigall & Ostrove's 1975 study

Which study found that if the victim was good looking then the defendent would get a longer sentence, as well as the ugly defendent getting a longer sentence

Which two studies found that the influence of attractiveness was crime-dependent

Stewart 1980

Meta-analysis of 34 studies showing ppts more likely to give guilty verdict if defendent is a different race from their own

Meta-analysis shows mixed evidence for race influencing JDM

Baldus 2000

Thomas 2010

Gagging orders

Misinformation effect

Meta-analysis of 44 studies done by Steblay 1999 - what were the results?

Thomas 2010 - what percentage of jurors didn't recall details in media but did remember whether the media thought the defendent guilty or not?

Problem with mock trials

Solid evidence provided by Ruva 2007 for PTP

Mock trials mostly used students

There is real life evidence for PTP determining verdict from jurors - give an example (not ronald cotton)