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What's in the Box? Punishment and Insanity in the Canadian Jury Deliberation Room
In insanity cases, although the defendant's eventual punishment is legally irrelevant to the jury's decision, it may be psychologically relevant. In this three-part mixed-methods study, Canadian jury eligible participants (N = 83) read a fictional murder case involving an insanity claim, t...
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Acceso en línea: | https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC8277975/ https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/34276516 http://dx.doi.org/10.3389/fpsyg.2021.689128 |
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description | In insanity cases, although the defendant's eventual punishment is legally irrelevant to the jury's decision, it may be psychologically relevant. In this three-part mixed-methods study, Canadian jury eligible participants (N = 83) read a fictional murder case involving an insanity claim, then took part in 45-min deliberations. Findings showed that mock jurors who were generally favourable towards punishment had a lower frequency of utterances that supported the Defence's case. A qualitative description of keyword flagged utterances also demonstrated that mock jurors relied on moral intuitions about authority, harm, and fairness in justifying their positions. These findings may have application in crafting effective Judge's instructions and lawyer's opening statements. |
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spelling | pubmed-82779752021-07-15 What's in the Box? Punishment and Insanity in the Canadian Jury Deliberation Room Yamamoto, Susan Maeder, Evelyn M. Front Psychol Psychology In insanity cases, although the defendant's eventual punishment is legally irrelevant to the jury's decision, it may be psychologically relevant. In this three-part mixed-methods study, Canadian jury eligible participants (N = 83) read a fictional murder case involving an insanity claim, then took part in 45-min deliberations. Findings showed that mock jurors who were generally favourable towards punishment had a lower frequency of utterances that supported the Defence's case. A qualitative description of keyword flagged utterances also demonstrated that mock jurors relied on moral intuitions about authority, harm, and fairness in justifying their positions. These findings may have application in crafting effective Judge's instructions and lawyer's opening statements. Frontiers Media S.A. 2021-06-30 /pmc/articles/PMC8277975/ /pubmed/34276516 http://dx.doi.org/10.3389/fpsyg.2021.689128 Text en Copyright © 2021 Yamamoto and Maeder. https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/This is an open-access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution License (CC BY). The use, distribution or reproduction in other forums is permitted, provided the original author(s) and the copyright owner(s) are credited and that the original publication in this journal is cited, in accordance with accepted academic practice. No use, distribution or reproduction is permitted which does not comply with these terms. |
spellingShingle | Psychology Yamamoto, Susan Maeder, Evelyn M. What's in the Box? Punishment and Insanity in the Canadian Jury Deliberation Room |
title | What's in the Box? Punishment and Insanity in the Canadian Jury Deliberation Room |
title_full | What's in the Box? Punishment and Insanity in the Canadian Jury Deliberation Room |
title_fullStr | What's in the Box? Punishment and Insanity in the Canadian Jury Deliberation Room |
title_full_unstemmed | What's in the Box? Punishment and Insanity in the Canadian Jury Deliberation Room |
title_short | What's in the Box? Punishment and Insanity in the Canadian Jury Deliberation Room |
title_sort | what's in the box? punishment and insanity in the canadian jury deliberation room |
topic | Psychology |
url | https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC8277975/ https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/34276516 http://dx.doi.org/10.3389/fpsyg.2021.689128 |
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