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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Authors: O’Donnell, Christina M. (Author) ; Safer, Martin A. (Author)
Format: Electronic Article
Language:English
Published: 2017
In: Psychology, crime & law
Year: 2017, Volume: 23, Issue: 10, Pages: 946-966
Online Access: Volltext (Resolving-System)
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Keywords:
Jury instructions
Confession evidence
Courtroom
Judicial decision-making
Sensitivity