Race and the Jury
Racial Disenfranchisement and the Search for Justice
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Sociologists in action: The McMartin sexual abuse case, litigation, justice, and mass hysteria
This paper describes our involvement as jury consultants in one of the most notorious criminal trials in history—the McMartin child-molestation trial in Los Angeles. The McMartin trial was the longest and cost...
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Race and the Jury
The jury is one of our most democratic institutions. A random sample of the community is asked to render an impartial verdict in a case after hearing evidence from both sides. The notion that ordinary men and ...
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Jury Selection Procedures
The starting point in jury selection is sending a jury summons, which calls prospective jurors to the courthouse. Yet relatively few eligible citizens are successful in finally entering the jury box. Before th...
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Anatomy of Economic Excuses
The jury, speaking for the community, is viewed as an essential element of a democratic government that derives its power from the people. Further, the democratic principle of fair and equal participation in t...
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The Optimal Design to Obtain a Racially Representative Jury
The Federal Jury Selection and Service Act was passed in 1968 guaranteeing that “all litigants in Federal courts entitled to trial by jury shall have the right to grand and petit juries selected at random from...
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The Structural Approach to Racial Inequality in the Jury System and Jury Selection
The primary influence on the contemporary jury system in the United States is derived from early English colonists who brought their legal institutions to North America. Subsequently, the jury system evolved a...
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The U.S. Supreme Court, the Constitutional Background of Jury Selection, and Racial Representation
The “liberation” of slaves by President Lincoln’s Emancipation Proclamation in the course of the Civil War laid a new foundation for the legal rights of blacks that then had to be vindicated by political, militar...
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Scientific Jury Selection in Voir Dire
The purpose of voir dire is to find a fair and impartial jury. In reality, however, jury selection often becomes a battleground on which both prosecution and defense search out jurors who are likely to favor thei...
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The McMartin Trial
Sexual abuse of children became a national preoccupation in the 1980s and early 1990s. In 1985, the Meese Commission claimed that the child-pornography industry grossed $675 million per annum. The National Bro...
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Leadership, Community Decisions, and Geothermal Energy Development: Imperial County, California
Power structures are made up of decision makers who are largely responsible for the actions and nonactions in organizations at all levels in the United States. At the individual level, the ability to make deci...
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Population-Economic Data Analyses Relative to Geothermal Fields, Imperial County, California
Geothermal energy worldwide exists in diverse geological, ecological, climatic, and socioeconomic settings. The oldest developed field in Lardarello, Italy has been producing electrical energy since 1904 (Wehl...
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Projected Population, Growth, and Displacement from Geothermal Development
With a complicated geothermal energy source, there are many pathways that the development process can take, depending on such factors as total amount of recoverable energy, land ownership, permitting and regul...
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Research Conclusions and Policy Recommendations about Geothermal Development
Much of this research has implications and generalizability for other areas potentially undergoing geothermal or other energy resource development. The immediate goal of the overall study,† however, was to pro...
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Geothermal Energy in Imperial County, California
Geothermal energy is the natural heat of the earth. Anyone who has witnessed a volcanic eruption or penetrated the interior of a deep mine will attest to the observation that temperature rises with depth in the e...
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Regional Employment Implications for Geothermal Energy Development in Imperial County, California
This chapter examines possible employment and associated local labor market effects of geothermal development in Imperial County, California. We first discuss available historical evidence from similar past re...
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Public Opinion about Geothermal Development
A recent review of public involvement in planning public works projects carried out by the Comptroller General’s Office of the U.S. Government suggested that public participation in the government’s decision-m...
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Geothermal Development Update
The socioeconomic characteristics and geophysical parameters for Imperial County have undergone detailed exploration in earlier chapters. The unfolding of geothermal development in a real community, however, i...
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An Integrated Assessment Model for Public Policy Alternatives, Priorities, and Outcomes in Geothermal Environments
During the course of a research project on geothermal development in Imperial County, California, it became apparent that a broad perspective was essential if public policy alternatives, priorities, and possib...
