By Jeffrey T Frederick
Learn the techniques the experts use - and WHY they use them.
The Psychology of the American Jury discusses the tough issues you face in jury trials and offers practical solutions. Among the issues discussed are the use of surveys in jury selection and change of venue motions, in-court approaches to jury selection, nonverbal behavior of jurors, and voir dire procedures. It contains a comprehensive treatment of persuasion in the courtroom and a general review of psychological research on juries. Research techniques designed to help pretest cases before trial, e.g., focus groups and trial simulations, are considered along with trial techniques, i.e., trial observation and shadow juries, designed to assess how the actual trial is evolving in the eyes of jurors.
(no longer in publication)