The Effect of Own-Gender Juries on Conviction Rates
Loading...
Date
2018-07-11
Authors
Journal Title
Journal ISSN
Volume Title
Publisher
Private Enterprise Research Center, Texas A&M University
Abstract
The right to an impartial jury is the cornerstone of the U.S. justice system and is enshrined in the Bill of Rights, but are these juries truly impartial, or do they favor defendants who are similar to themselves? In PERC working paper 1803, PERC’s Rex Grey Professor Mark Hoekstra and co-author Brittany Street study whether gender matches between jurors and defendants affect criminal conviction rates.
Description
Labor
Keywords
Juries, gender, Labor