Effects of pretrial Juror Bias, strength of evidence and deliberation process on Juror decisions: New validity evidence of the Juror Bias scale scores

Psychology, Crime and Law

Volumn 9, Issue 2, 2003, Pages 197-209

  De la Fuente, Leticia ^a   Inmaculada de la Fuente, E ^b   García, Juan ^c  

^a UNIVERSITY OF ALMERÍA   (Spain)

^b UNIVERSITY OF GRANADA   (Spain)

^c NONE

Author keywords

Juror Bias Scale; Juror decision making; Jury deliberation effects; Jury selection; Pretrial juror bias; Validity evidence

Indexed keywords

EID: 0037907535     PISSN: 1068316X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1080/1068316031000116283     Document Type: Article

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