Jury instructions and mock-juror sensitivity to confession evidence in a simulated criminal case

We investigated whether enhanced jury instructions, which added empirical findings about confession evidence to standard jury instructions, could sensitize mock jurors to the confession evidence in a criminal trial transcript. Participants (N = 314) read a detailed transcript of a simulated murder t...

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Main Author: O’Donnell, Christina M. (Author)
Contributors: Safer, Martin A.
Format: Electronic Article
Language:English
Published: 2017
In: Psychology, crime & law
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