Race and the Jury : Racial Disenfranchisement and the Search for Justice (The Plenum Series in Crime and Justice)

Fukurai, Hiroshi/ Butler, Edgar W./ Krooth, Richard

Springer-Verlag New York Inc.（2013/06発売）

• 製本 Paperback:紙装版/ペーパーバック版／ページ数 241 p.
• 言語 ENG
• 商品コード 9781489911292
• DDC分類 155

Full Description

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.

Contents

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.