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Jury Research in America: Its Past and Future

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  01 July 2024

Howard S. Erlanger
Howard S. Erlanger*
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University of California, Berkeley
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This paper is an attempt to review the body of social science writings of the last four and one-half decades on the petit jury. The major portion of this presentation will be limited to organizing the findings on the jury around the two major themes—competence and representation—which are most often discussed in empirical literature. A concluding section will offer some evaluative comments and present some tentative proposals for a new perspective on the sociological study of the jury.

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Law & Society Review , Volume 4 , Issue 3 , February 1970 , pp. 345 - 370
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Copyright © 1970 by the Law and Society Association.

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Footnotes

AUTHOR'S NOTE: This paper has benefited from discussions with Egon Bittner, Elliott Currie, Forest Dill, Pamela Erlanger, Sheldon Messinger, and Philip Selznick. Responsibility for the final product remains my own.

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