LAW 402 Lecture Notes - Lecture 7: Jury Instructions, Authoritarianism, Victim Blaming
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Locus of control: how people explain what happens to them, internal: outcomes in life due to own abilities or efforts, external: outcomes in life due to outside forces. Belief in a just world: people get what they deserve and deserve what they get, (cid:862)(cid:448)i(cid:272)ti(cid:373) (cid:271)la(cid:373)i(cid:374)g(cid:863) people engage in it so to distance themselves from the situation. Identify with and submit to authority figures. Suspicious of and punitive toward people who violate rules/established norms: more likely to convict unless defendant is a police officer. Similarity-leniency hypothesis: jurors similar to defendant will empathize with the defendant and thus be less likely to convict, found that relation is actually more complicated. Boomerang effect: if similar jurors are in minority, harsher on defendants, in order to distance themselves from the defendant. Jury decision making: tre(cid:374)gth of e(cid:448)ide(cid:374)(cid:272)e is (cid:271)est predi(cid:272)tor of a jury"s (cid:448)erdi(cid:272)t, liberation hypothesis, pretrial publicity. Often contains information which is inadmissible as evidence during trial.
