Pretrial publicity: Effects of admonition and expressing pretrial opinions

Legal and Criminological Psychology

Volumn 3, Issue 2, 1998, Pages 255-270

  Freedman, Jonathan L ^a   Martin, Christiane K ^a   Mota, Victor L ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF TORONTO   (Canada)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; COLLEGE STUDENT; CRIMINAL JUSTICE; DECISION MAKING; GUILT; INFORMATION; MASS MEDIUM; OFFENDER; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PUBLIC OPINION; VIDEOTAPE;

EID: 0031713899     PISSN: 13553259     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.2044-8333.1998.tb00365.x     Document Type: Article

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