ArticleNature human behaviour2018
Modelling the effects of crime type and evidence on judgments about guilt.
Article in Nature human behaviour, 2018. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 7 papers.
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- Exploring the quantity and type of evidence collected during criminal investigations in South Korea.Forensic science international. Synergy · 2024Article
- Social cognitive processes explain bias in juror decisions.Social cognitive and affective neuroscience · 2023Article
- Attenuated total reflection-Fourier transform infrared spectroscopy: a universal analytical technique with promising applications in forensic analyses.International journal of legal medicine · 2022Review
- Neural Support for Contributions of Utility and Narrative Processing of Evidence in Juror Decision Making.The Journal of neuroscience : the official journal of the Society for Neuroscience · 2022Article
- Mock jurors' awareness of age-related changes in memory and cognitive capacity.Psychiatry, psychology, and law : an interdisciplinary journal of the Australian and New Zealand Association of Psychiatry, Psychology and Law · 2020Article
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Abstract
Concerns over wrongful convictions have spurred an increased focus on understanding criminal justice decision-making. This study describes an experimental approach that complements conventional mock-juror experiments and case studies by providing a rapid, high-throughput screen for identifying preconceptions and biases that can influence how jurors and lawyers evaluate evidence in criminal cases. The approach combines an experimental decision task derived from marketing research with statistical modeling to explore how subjects evaluate the strength of the case against a defendant. The results show that, in the absence of explicit information about potential error rates or objective reliability, subjects tend to overweight widely used types of forensic evidence, but give much less weight than expected to a defendant's criminal history. Notably, for mock jurors, the type of crime also biases their confidence in guilt independent of the evidence. This bias is positively correlated with the seriousness of the crime. For practicing prosecutors and other lawyers, the crime-type bias is much smaller, yet still correlates with the seriousness of the crime.
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