How mock jurors’ cognitive processing and defendants’ immigrant status and ethnicity relate to decisions in capital trials

This study examined how defendants’ immigrant status and ethnicity interact with evidence strength and mock jurors’ cognitive processing traits to influence decisions in a capital trial., A sample of jury-eligible participants acted as mock jurors and read a trial summary in which defendant immigran...

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Authors: West, Matthew P. (Author) ; Wood, Emily F. (Author) ; Miller, Monica K. (Author) ; Bornstein, Brian H. (Author)
Format: Electronic Article
Language:English
Published: 2021
In: Journal of experimental criminology
Year: 2021, Volume: 17, Issue: 3, Pages: 423-432
Online Access: Volltext (lizenzpflichtig)
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Keywords:
Ethnicity
Immigrant status
death penalty
Juror decision-making
Cognitive processing
Prejudice