Addressing the problem of courtroom stress

Judicature

Volumn 91, Issue 2, 2007, Pages 60-69

  Miller, Monica K ^a   Flores, David M ^a,b   Dolezilek, Ashley N ^c  

^a UNIVERSITY OF NEVADA   (United States)

^b Grant Sawyer Center for Justice Studies   (United States)

^c NONE

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1. Ed Vogel and Sean Whaley, Manhunt for Reno Pawnshop Owner Continues, Las Vegas Review Journal, June 14, 2006, at A1.
2. Decision Allows Judges to Carry Guns, New York News, July 16, 2006, available at http://www.nyl.com/ny1/content/index.jsp?stid= 3&aid=61055
3. See generally, Patrik Jonsson, In killings' wake, urgency to protect courts, Christian Science Monitor, March 14, 2005 http://www.csmonitor.com/2005/0314/p03s01-usju.html.
4. E.g., Victoria Slind-Flor, In Grisly Trials Counties Begin to Help Jurors Cope Afterward, National Law Journal, January 20, 1992, at 3.
5. Celeste F. Bremer, Reducing judicial stress through mentoring. 87 JUDICATURE 244 (2004).
6. Monica K. Miller & Brian H. Bornstein, Juror Stress: Causes and Interventions. 30 THURGOOD MARSHALL L. REV. 237 (2004).
7. See, for example, Cary L. Cooper & Philip Dewe, STRESS: A BRIEF HISTORY 110 (2004).
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9. Shari Seidman Diamond, What Jurors Think: Expectations and Reactions of Citizens Who Serve as Jurors, in R.E. Litan ed., VERDICT: ASSESSING THE CIVIL JURY SYSTEM (1993);
10. Brian H. Bornstein, Monica K. Miller, Robert Nemeth, Greg Page, and Sarah Musil, Juror Reactions to Jury Duty: Perceptions of the System and Potential Stressors, 23 BEHAV. SCI. & L. 1 (2005);
11. Peter G. Jaffe, Claire V. Crooks, Billie L. Dunford-Jackson, & Michael Town, Vicarious Trauma in Judges: The Personal Challenge of Dispensing Justice, Juvenile and Family Court Journal, 2003, at 1.
12. James E. Kelley, Addressing Juror Stress: A Trial Judge's Perspective, 43 DRAKE L. REV. 97 (1994);
13. Daniel W. Shuman, The Health Effects of Jury Service, 18 LAW AND PSYCHOLOGY REV. 267 (1994)
14. Diamond, What Jurors Think, supra n. 9.
15. National Center for State Courts, THROUGH THE EYES OF THE JUROR: A MANUAL FOR ADDRESSING JUROR STRESS, available at http://www.ncsconline.org/ WC/Publications/Res_Juries_JurorStressIndexPub.pdf (2002), Appendix B.
16. Isaiah M. Zimmerman, Helping judges in distress. 90 JUDICATURE 10 (2006);
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22. NCSC, Manual, supra n. 12;
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24. Miller, Causes and Interventions, supran. 6.
25. Bornstein, Juror Reactions, supra n. 9.
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27. NCSC, Manual, supra n. 12;
28. Bienen, Helping Jurors, supra n. 15;
29. Marjorie Dabbs, Jury Traumatization in High Profile Criminal Trials: A Case for Crisis Debriefing? 16 LAW AND PSYCHOLOGY REV. 201, 205 (1992).
30. Dabbs, Traumatization, supra n. 17;
31. Chris Nordgren & Matthew W. Thelen, Helpingjurors manage stress: A multilevel approach, 82 JUDICATURE 256 (1999)
32. NCSC, Manual, supran. 12;
33. Kaplan, Occupational Hazards, supra n. 15;
34. Holt, Yamhill County, supran. 15;
35. Theodore B. Feldmann & Roger A. Bell, Juror Stress: Identification and Intervention, 21 BULL. AM. ACAD. PSYCHIATRY AND L. 409 (1993).
36. Bremer, Mentoring, supra n. 5, at at 245.
37. Tracy D. Eells & Robert Showalter, Work-Related Stress in American Trial Judges, 22 BULL, AM. ACAD. PSYCHIATRY AND L. 71 (1994).
38. Jared Chamberlain and Monica K. Miller. "The Judicial Stress Triad: Secondary Traumatic Stress, Burnout, and Safety." Manuscript in preparation.
39. See generally, Donald J. Harris, Charlotte L. Kirschner, Kristina Klatt Rozek, & Neil Alan Weiner, Violence in the Judicial Workplace: One State's Experience, The Annals of the American Academy, July 2001, at 38.
40. See generally, Doukessa Lerias & Mitchell Byrne, Vicarious Traumatization: Symptoms and Predictors, 19 STRESS AND HEALTH 129 (2003);
41. B. Hudnall Stamm, Work-related Secondary Traumatic Stress, 8 PTSD RES. Q. 1 (1997);
42. MaryDale Salston & Charles Figley, Secondary Traumatic Stress Effects of Working with Survivors of Criminal Victimization, 16 J. TRAUMATIC STRESS 167 (2003);
43. Geoffrey Thorpe, Sue Righthand, & Elizabeth Kubik, Brief Report: Dimensions of Burnout in Professionals Working with Sex Offenders, 13 SEXUAL ABUSE: A JOURNAL OF RESEARCH 197 (2001).
44. Jaffe, Vicarious Trauma in Judges, supra n. 9.
45. Eells, Work-Related Stress, supra n. 20.
46. Laura Bauer, Kansas judge says stress at work, church led him to view porn at office, Kansas City Star May 26, 2005, at B4;
47. Beth Hawkins, Take it up with judge: Judge Harvey Ginsburg seems to have a little anger problem, November 5, 2003, at City Pages, 1196(24) http://citypages.com/databank/24/1196/article11632.asp;
48. Marjorie A. Silver, SUBSTANCE ABUSE, STRESS, MENTAL HEALTH, AND THE LEGAL PROFESSION. (New York Lawyers Assistance Trust, 2004).
49. Two classic works regarding procedural justice include Allen E. Lind and Tom R. Tyler, THE SOCIAL PSYCHOLOGY OF PROCEDURAL JUSTICE (1988)
50. and John Thibaut and Laurens Walker, PROCEDURAL JUSTICE: A PSYCHOLOGICAL ANALYSIS (1975).
51. Theodore B. Feldmann & Roger A. Bell, Crisis Debriefing of a Jury After a Murder Trial, 42 HOSP. AND CMTY. PSYCHIATRY 79 (1991);
52. Nordgren, Helping Jurors, supra n. 18;
53. Bornstein, Juror Reactions, supran. 9.
54. See, e.g., Holt, Yamhill County, supra n. 15;
55. Andrew Ross Sorkin and Jonathan D. Glater, Jurors Fresh From Deliberations Recall What Led to Tyco Mistrial, New York Times, April 5, 2004;
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57. Feldman, Crisis Debriefing, supra n. 28.
58. Bornstein, Juror Reactions, supra n. 18.
59. Miller, Causes and Interventions, supra n. 6.
60. Slind-Flor, Grisly Trials, supra n. 4;
61. Thomas L. Hafemeister & Larry Ventis, Juror Stress: What Burden Have We Placed on Our Juries? 56 TEX. B.J. 586 (1993).
62. E.g., Bienen, Helping Jurors, supra n. 15, at 10.
63. Nordgren, Helping Jurors, supra n. 18.
64. Miller, Causes and Interventions, supra n. 6.
65. Harris, Judicial Workplace, supra n. 22.
66. Bremer, Mentoring supra n. 5.
67. Gregory, E. Mize and Christopher J. Connelly, Jury Trial Innovations: Charting a Rising Tide, Court Review, 2004, at 41. http://aja.ncsc.dni.us/ courtrv/cr-41-1/CR41-1Mize.pdf.
68. G. Thomas Munsterman, Jury News, Implementing Jury Trial Innovations, Court Manager, 2000, at 15, 34. http://www.ncsconline.org/wc/ publications/Res_Juries_JuryNewsJuryTrialInnovationsPub.pdf
69. Id.
70. See also Jury outreach in the United States, National Center for State Courts. http://www.ncsconline.org/Juries/outreach.htm
71. Miller, Causes and Interventions supra n. 6.
72. Maryland v. Craig, 497 U.S. 836 (1990).
73. See, for example, Iowa State Bar Association Courthouse Task Force, Final Report (2005). Available at http://www.iowabar.org/ isbareports.nsf/2b85a4ea12f4bfac8625669d006e27ab/ 6437dc2dad5594fc862570d800196de81OpenDocument
74. Monica K. Miller and James T. Richardson, A Model of Causes and Effects of Judicial Stress, Judge's Journal, Fall 2006, at 20.