Encyclopedia of Psychology and Law

387 JAILSCREENING ASSESSMENTTOOL(JSAT) The Jail Screening Assessment Tool (JSAT) is a screening tool developed for the purpose o ...

almost 50,000 prisoners. According to the authors of the JSAT, there are several aims involved in screening for mental disorders ...

global styles were found in content-present and con- tent-absent channels. Judges high in the “judicial” style are viewed as con ...

increased reliance occurring when judges have more active roles. Meera Adya and Peter Blanck See alsoDetection of Deception: Non ...

witnesses are more likely to make an accurate identifi- cation than less confident witnesses. Consequently,poten- tial jurors’ v ...

level of witness confidence. Therefore, even though mock jurors indicate that they have knowledge con- cerning the impact of the ...

influence of the inclusion of additional indictments on juror decision making. In this context, a joinder trial refers to a tria ...

severed. Joinder did not influence rates of conviction on the second offense, but of course, in real cases, the same jury would ...

instructions in reducing the prejudicial effects of join- der on juror decisions. D. David Barnard and Margaret Bull Kovera See ...

studies have found that jurors typically understand a little more than half the instructions they are presented with and that in ...

imaginary” or a doubt “that would cause a reasonable man to hesitate in making an important decision”). Instructions that cautio ...

a framework for interpreting the evidence, making them more attentive to due-process issues designed to protect the defendant su ...

states are either considering or in the process of mak- ing similar revisions (including Delaware, Iowa, Michigan, Minnesota, Mi ...

be considered too marginal or too elite to be spared from the basic task of jury service. A number of institutional and social f ...

proceedings on citizens who fail to respond to the jury summons. Nearly two thirds of courts report some form of follow-up on no ...

defines to be relevant to their decisions. For example, jurors use evidence about offenders’ conduct in deter- mining criminal g ...

effect of witness confidence. When experts testify for both sides, however, jurors appear to become skepti- cal of all eyewitnes ...

negatives, and words with multiple meanings; using more common words; replacing abstract concepts with concrete terms; using par ...

trial summaries helps jurors refresh their memories, allows them to clarify the evidence when memories dif- fer, and makes it mo ...

Judges and juries differ in several potentially important ways. Modern judges are legally trained professionals, while jurors ar ...