Perceptions of jury duty: Satisfaction and overall impression |
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Authors: | J Langley Miller John Joseph Sloan |
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Institution: | (1) Purdue University, West Lafayette, USA |
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Abstract: | A jury service exit questionnaire that was designed to measure satisfaction with and overall impression of jury duty was administered
to a saturation sample of 2,947 respondents by court clerks serving District or Circuit courts in nine counties in southeastern
Michigan. For those sworn to jury duty, global satisfaction with the jury experience is found to be influenced by perceptions
of trial characteristics and by the extent of participation in the jury system. The significant predictors of overall impression
with the jury system are respondent age, being elected jury foreman, and deliberating a criminal rather than civil case.
An earlier draft of this paper was presented at the 1985 Meetings of the North Central Sociological Association. This research
was funded in part by the Michigan State Supreme Court. We acknowledge the contributions made to this paper by members of
the Sorrento Seminar and by anonymous reviewers. Patrick C. Easto provided the inspiration for writing the first as well as
the final draft of this paper. |
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