Research on Race and Jury Decision Making Indicates That Jurors

question 30

Multiple Choice

Research on race and jury decision making indicates that jurors are

• A)always more lenient toward defendants of their same race.
• B)more likely to discriminate by race when race is a prominent issue during the trial.
• C)not influenced by race when evidence in a case is strong.
• D)very unpredictable from one trial and jury to the next.

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Definitions:

Confirmatory Factor Analysis

A statistical technique used to verify the factor structure of a set of observed variables.

Experiment

A scientific procedure undertaken to make a discovery, test a hypothesis, or demonstrate a known fact through controlled observation.

Physical Mechanisms

Processes or functions within a physical system that bring about a particular outcome or effect.

Empirical Reasoning

That process of thinking that proceeds from premises describing interpersonally verifiable experiences in order to support or to disconfirm hypotheses, which, in turn, are intended to explain and predict phenomena. Empirical reasoning is fundamentally inductive, self-corrective, and open to scrutiny and independent verification by the entire scientific community.