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Confronting readers with intellectual and moral dilemmas faced by real jurors, The Jury Crisis explores the near collapse of jury trials in America, examines alternative paths to justice and proposes how to restore trial by jury as the trusted foundation of American democracy.
List of contents
Acknowledgments
Introduction: What's Wrong with Juries?
Chapter 1 Triers of Fact
Chapter 2 Supplying Facts in Early Juries
Chapter 3 How Jurors Use Facts to Tell Stories
Chapter 4 Why Jurors Prefer Stories over Facts
Chapter 5 Jury Selection: Identifying Who Will Tell Which Stories
Chapter 6 Jury Selection in a Product-Liability Lawsuit
Chapter 7 Jury Deliberations: The Stories Widen
Chapter 8 Jury Deliberations in Real Trials
Chapter 9 Storytellers in Robes
Chapter 10 The Biases behind Judges' Stories
Chapter 11 The Vanishing Jury
Chapter 12 Trying the Jury Trial
Chapter 13 Junk the Jury or Fix the Flaws?
Notes
Bibliography
Index
About the Author
About the author
Drury Sherrod,PhD, is the co-founder of Mattson & Sherrod, Inc., a jury research firm specializing in trial strategy and jury selection for high-damage civil defense trials, many involving Fortune 500 companies. Sherrod is a member of the American Society of Trial Consultants, the American Psychological Association, and the Society for Experimental Social Psychology. Along with authoring Social Psychology (1982), he has authored more than thirty articles on psychology, jury behavior, attribution theory and the effects of environmental stress on human behavior. He has, also, written hundreds of narrative-style opening statements for jury trials, which were adopted by attorneys and presented to actual trial jurors. Sherrod hasgiven many talks on jury trials and juries in America to a variety of audiences, including college classes, law firms, bar associations, legal conferences, professional associations and groups interested in law and the social sciences, and has also presented research findings to hundreds of attorneys in law firms across the United States. You can visit his website at https://www.thejurycrisis.com/.
Summary
Confronting readers with intellectual and moral dilemmas faced by real jurors, The Jury Crisis explores the near collapse of jury trials in America, examines alternative paths to justice and proposes how to restore trial by jury as the trusted foundation of American democracy.
Foreword
The second book in the Daughters of Erin trilogy
