Empirical assessment of the escabinato jury system |
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| Authors: | RamÓN Arce Francisca Fariña Carlos Vila Santiago Real |
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| Affiliation: | Departmento de Psicología Social, Facultad de Psicología , University of Santiago de Compostela , Spain |
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| Abstract: | Abstract There are two practical applications of the jury system: the jury of lay people and the escabinato jury involving joint decision making by legal experts and lay people. Research undertaken in this field has been almost exclusively centered on the former. This work consists of an empirical study of the role of legal suggest that the loss of a jury of peers implies the dominance of the judge's opinion. The causes and consequences of this domination have been assessed. |
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| Keywords: | decision making escabinato juror, judge mixed jury, trial |
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