The impact of negative forensic evidence on mock jurors' perceptions of a trial of drug-facilitated sexual assault

Law and Human Behavior

Volumn 31, Issue 4, 2007, Pages 369-380

  Jenkins, Gwen ^a   Schuller, Regina A ^a  

^a YORK UNIVERSITY   (Canada)

Author keywords

Expert testimony; Negative forensic evidence; Sexual assault

Indexed keywords

ALCOHOL;

ADULT; ALCOHOL CONSUMPTION; ARTICLE; CANADA; CARBONATED BEVERAGE; EXPERT WITNESS; FEMALE; FORENSIC SCIENCE; HUMAN; HUMAN EXPERIMENT; LEGAL ASPECT; MALE; NORMAL HUMAN; PERCEPTION; RAPE; SCREENING TEST; SEXUAL CRIME; TOXICOLOGY;

CANADA; EXPERT TESTIMONY; FEMALE; FORENSIC MEDICINE; HUMANS; MALE; RAPE; SUBSTANCE-RELATED DISORDERS; UNCONSCIOUSNESS; VIOLENCE;

EID: 34547815712     PISSN: 01477307     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s10979-006-9068-2     Document Type: Article

References (41)

1. Abbey, A., McAuslan, P., Zawacki, T., Clinton, A. M., & Buck, P. O. (2001). Attitudinal, experiential, and situational predictors of sexual assault perpetration. Journal of Interpersonal Violence, 16, 784-807.
2. Abramowitz, M. Z. (2004). GHB and date rape. British Journal of Psychiatry, 185, 176-177.
3. Alksnis, C. (2001). Fundamental justice is the issue: Extending full equality of the law to women and children. Journal of Social Distress and the Homeless, 10, 69-86.
4. Ares v. Venner. (1970). S.C.R. 608.
5. Bornstein, B. H. (1999). The ecological validity of jury simulations: Is the jury still out? Law and Human Behavior, 23, 75-91.
6. Brekke, N., & Borgida, E. (1988). Expert psychological testimony in rape trials: A social-cognitive analysis. Journal of Personality and Social Psychology, 55, 372-386.
7. Cameron, C. A., & Stritzke, W. G. K. (2003). Alcohol and acquaintance rape in Australia: Testing the presupposition model of attributions about responsibility and blame. Journal of Applied Social Psychology, 33, 983-1008.
8. Cutler, B. L., Dexter, H. R., & Penrod, S. D. (1989). Expert testimony and jury decision making: An empirical analysis. Behavioral Sciences and the Law, 7, 215-225.
9. Cutler, B. L., Dexter, H. R., & Penrod, S. D. (1990). Nonadversarial methods for sensitizing jurors to eyewitness evidence. Journal of Applied Social Psychology, 20, 1197-1207.
10. Federal Rules of Evidence. Retrieved June 8th, 2006 from http://judiciary house.gov/media/pdfs/printers/ 108th/evid2004.pdf
11. Fitzgerald, N., & Riley, K. J. (2000). Drug-facilitated rape: Looking for the missing pieces. National Institute of Justice Journal. Retrieved May 4th, 2004, from http://www.ncjrs.org/pdffiles1/jr000243c.pdf.
12. Frazier, P. A., & Haney, B. (1996). Sexual assault cases in the legal system: Police, prosecutor, and victim perspectives. Law and Human Behavior, 20, 607-628.
13. Frazier, P. A., & Hunt, J. S. (1998). Research on gender and the law: Where are we going, where have we been? Law and Human Behavior, 22, 1-16.
14. Hindmarch, I., & Brinkmann, R. (1999). Trends in the use of alcohol and other drugs in cases of sexual assault. Human Psychopharmacology, 14, 225-231.
15. Hindmarch, I., ElSohly, M., Gambles, J., & Salamone, S. (2001). Forensic urinalysis of drug use in cases of alleged sexual assault. Journal of Clinical Forensic Medicine, 8, 197-205.
16. Koss, M. P. (1988). Hidden rape: Sexual aggression and victimization in a national sample of students in higher education. In A. W. Burgess (Ed.), Rape and sexual assault (Vol. 2, pp. 3-25). New York: Garland.
17. Kovera, M. B., Borgida, E., Gresham, A. W., Gray, E., & Regan, P. C. (1997). Does expert psychological testimony inform or influence juror decision making? A social cognitive analysis. Journal of Social Psychology, 82, 178-191.
18. Kovera, M. B., McAuliff, B. D., & Hebert, K. S. (1999). Reasoning about scientific evidence: Effects of juror gender and evidence quality on juror decisions in a hostile work environment case. Journal of Applied Psychology, 84, 362-375.
19. Loftus, E., & Monahan, J. (1980). Trial by data: Psychological research as legal evidence. American Psychologist, 35, 270-283.
20. MacCoun, R. J., & Kerr, N. L. (1988). Asymmetric influence in mock deliberation: Jurors' bias for leniency. Journal of Personality and Social Psychology, 54, 21-33.
21. McGregor, M. J., Ericksen, J., Ronald, L. A., Janssen, P. A., Van Vliet, A., & Schulzer, M. (2004). Rising incidence of hospital-reported drug-facilitated sexual assault in a large urban community in Canada. Canadian Journal of Public Health, 95, 441-445.
22. McGregor, M. J., Lipowska, M., Shah, S., Du Mont, J., & De Siato, C. (2003). An exploratory analysis of suspected drug-facilitated sexual assault seen in a hospital emergency department. Women and Health, 37, 71-80.
23. McGregor, M. J., Wiebe, E., Marion, S. A., & Livingstone, C. (2000). Why don't more women report sexual assault to the police? Canadian Medical Association Journal, 162, 659-660.
24. McNamara, K., Vattano, F., & Viney, W. (1993). Verdict, sentencing, and certainty as a function of sex of juror and amount of evidence in a simulated rape trial. Psychological reports, 72, 575-583.
25. Murphy, W. J. (2001). The victim advocacy and research group: Serving a growing need to provide rape victims with personal legal representation to protect privacy rights and to fight gender bias in the criminal justice system. Journal of Social Distress and the Homeless, 11, 123-138.
26. Norris, J., & Cubbins, L. A. (1992). Dating, drinking and rape: Effects of victim's and assailant's alcohol consumption on judgments of their behavior and traits. Psychology of Women Quarterly, 16, 179-191.
27. R. v. Alouache. (2003). CanLLI 9494 (ON S.C.).
28. Richardson, D., & Campbell, J. L. (1982). Alcohol and rape: The effect of alcohol on attributions of blame for rape. Personality and Social Psychology Bulletin, 8, 268-476.
29. Schuller, R. A. (1992). The impact of battered woman syndrome evidence on jury decision processes. Law and Human Behavior, 16, 597-620.
30. Schuller, R. A., & Cripps, J. (1998). Expert evidence pertaining to battered women: The impact of gender of expert and timing of testimony. Law and Human Behavior, 22, 17-31.
31. Schuller, R. A., & Hastings, P. A. (2002). Complainant sexual history evidence: Its impact on mock jurors' decisions. Psychology of Women Quarterly, 26, 252-261.
32. Schuller, R. A., & Stewart, A. (2000). Police responses to sexual assault complaints: The role of perpetrator/complainant intoxication. Law and Human Behavior, 24, 535-551.
33. Schuller, R. A., & Wall, A. M. (1998). The effects of defendant and complainant intoxication on mock jurors' judgments of sexual assault. Psychology of Women Quarterly, 22, 555-573.
34. Schutte, J. W., & Hosch, H. M. (1997). Gender differences in sexual assault verdicts: A meta-analysis. Journal of Social Behavior and Personality, 12, 759-772.
35. Scott-Ham, M., & Burton, F. C. (2005). Toxicological findings in cases of alleged drug-facilitated sexual assault in the United Kingdom over a 3-year period. Journal of Clinical Forensic Medicine, 12, 175-186.
36. Sinclair, H. C., & Bourne, L. E. (1998). Cycle of blame or just world: Effects of legal verdicts on gender patterns in rape-myth acceptance and victim empathy. Psychology of Women Quarterly, 22, 575-588.
37. Stormo, K. J., Lang, A. R., & Stritzke, W. G. K. (1997). Attributions about acquaintance rape: The role of alcohol and individual differences. Journal of Applied Social Psychology, 27, 279-305.
38. Tribe, L. H. (1971). Trial by mathematics: Precision and ritual in the legal process. Harvard Law Review, 84, 1329-1393.
39. Vidmar, N. J., & Schuller, R. A. (1989). Juries and expert evidence: Social framework testimony. Law and Contemporary Problems, 52, 133-176.
40. Walker, L., & Monahan, J. (1987). Social frameworks: A new use of social science in law. Virginia Law Review, 73, 559-598.
41. Zeedyk, M. S., & Raitt, F. E. (1998). Psychological evidence in the courtroom: Critical reflections on the general acceptance standard. Journal of Community & Applied Social Psychology, 8, 23-39.