Much Obliged: Volunteering, Normative Activities, and Willingness to
                        Serve on Juries

Musick, Marc A.; Rose, Mary R.; Dury, Sarah; Rose, Roger P.

doi:10.1111/lsi.12114

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“…This will create different likelihoods of responding to a summons or qualification questionnaire and being willing to serve, even across federal versus state jurisdictions. Stated willingness to serve is particularly low among African Americans, for reasons that are not yet well understood (Musick et al ), but willingness varies greatly across neighborhoods even within the same city (Taylor et al ).…”

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Jury Pool Underrepresentation in the Modern Era: Evidence from Federal Courts

Rose

Casarez

Gutiérrez

2018

J Empirical Legal Studies

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Despite a constitutional mandate that jury pools in the United States be representative of their communities, almost no datasets exist that can describe typical levels and patterns of jury representation. We present data from federal courts on the composition of jury pools in 52 areas, representing 764 counties. We also compare current composition estimates to those available 20 years ago from published sources. Results show that, by far, some amount of underrepresentation in jury pools is the norm, and levels of attrition fail all but one proposed method for calculating and defining "not fair and reasonable" amounts of underrepresentation. On average, expected losses range between one and three members of each minority group from jury venires of 40 to 60 people. We find no evidence that the impact of attrition on Latino communities is greater than on African-American communities and, unlike Latinos, no indicators of African-American representation levels show improvement over time. We discuss the challenges of addressing racial/ethnic attrition in jury pools, which is evident but, given the repeated small-group sampling of venires, may be small in effect in any single case.

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Section: Discussionmentioning

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Jury Pool Underrepresentation in the Modern Era: Evidence from Federal Courts

Rose

Casarez

Gutiérrez

2018

J Empirical Legal Studies

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“…Prior research has shown that, on average, relative to whites, blacks and Hispanics have increased perceptions of criminal injustice (Hagan, Shedd, and Payne 2005) in relation to the police (Weitzer and Tuch 2005) and the courts (Brooks and Jeon-Slaughter 2001; Overby et al 2005) and are more likely to perceive the criminal justice system as racially biased (Bobo and Johnson 2004; Bobo and Thompson 2006), largely due to greater contact with the legal system (Hagan, Shedd, and Payne 2005; Weitzer and Tuch 2005; Muller and Schrage 2014). Jury deliberations may be yet another site in which these differential views are perpetuated (Diamond 1993), as blacks express less willingness to serve on a jury than whites, even controlling for prior jury experience (Musick et al 2015). In sum, a consideration of whether subjective experiences of jury deliberations vary by status characteristics contributes to our understandings of trust in legal institutions and of juries as an inclusionary deliberative body.…”

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Jurors' Subjective Experiences of Deliberations in Criminal Cases

Winter¹,

Clair²

2018

Law soc. inq.

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Research on jury deliberations has largely focused on the implications of deliberations for criminal defendants' outcomes. In contrast, this article considers jurors' outcomes by integrating subjective experience into the study of deliberations. We examine whether jurors' feelings that they had enough time to express themselves vary by jurors' gender, race, or education. Drawing on status characteristics theory and a survey of more than 3,000 real-world jurors, we find that the majority of jurors feel that they had enough time to express themselves. However, blacks and Hispanics, and especially blacks and Hispanics with less education, are less likely to feel so. Jurors' verdict preferences do not account for these findings. Our findings have implications for status characteristics theory and for legal cynicism among members of lower-status social groups.

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“…Many researchers examine determinants of prosocial behaviors such as giving money, food and water, clothing and footwear, as well as the statistical numbers and percentage of people who would engage in helping behaviors (Musick, Rose, Dury, & Rose, 2015;Taniguchi & Marshall, 2014). One survey conducted in the United States showed that 23% of respondents would engage in providing help to vulnerable people, 34% would volunteer, and 22% would provide assistance to first responders if needed (FEMA, 2009: 12).…”

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Испитивање Ставова Грађана О Пружању Помоћи Угроженим Људима И Волонтирању За Време Катастрофа

Cvetković

Milašinović²,

Lazić³

2018

TEME

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The subject of quantitative research is to examine the factors influencing citizens' attitudes towards assisting vulnerable people and volunteering during natural disasters. In this paper, the authors examine the relationship between gender, age, level of education, marital status, employment, income level and perception of personal religiosity, and the attitudes to assisting vulnerable people and volunteering. Multiple-point random sampling was used to survey 2500 citizens in the area of 19 local communities endangered by the consequences of natural disasters. The results of the survey show that 29% of respondents would provide assistance to vulnerable people in the form of money, 18,2% in the form of food and water, 21,6% in clothing and footwear, 23,3% would volunteer, while 4,6% would engage in shelter centers for endangered people. In addition, it was found that there was no statistically significant relationship between the attitudes towards providing assistance in the form of money and the employment status. As well as, attitudes about volunteering and provision of food and water assistance are not related to the employment status of respondents, etc. The results of the research can be used to improve the management system in natural disasters and to create appropriate educational programs for establishing a more efficient and comprehensive system of assistance to vulnerable people and the operation of volunteer organizations.

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Much Obliged: Volunteering, Normative Activities, and Willingness to Serve on Juries

Cited by 11 publications

References 31 publications

Jury Pool Underrepresentation in the Modern Era: Evidence from Federal Courts

Jury Pool Underrepresentation in the Modern Era: Evidence from Federal Courts

Jurors' Subjective Experiences of Deliberations in Criminal Cases

Испитивање Ставова Грађана О Пружању Помоћи Угроженим Људима И Волонтирању За Време Катастрофа

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