The Jury Crisis - 9781538109533

The Jury CrisisWhats Wrong with Jury Trials and How We Can Save Them\nAuthor(s): Drury R. Sherrod\nFormat: Hardback\nPublisher: Bloomsbury Publishing Plc, United States\nImprint: Rowman & Littlefield\nISBN-13: 9781538109533, 978-1538109533\nSynopsis\nJuries have a bad reputation. Often jurors are seen as incompetent, biased and unpredictable, and jury trials are seen as a waste of time and money. In fact, so few criminal and civil cases reach a jury today that trial by jury is on the verge of extinction. Juries are being replaced by mediators, arbitrators and private judges. The wise trial of Twelve Angry Men has become a fiction. As a result, a foundation of American democracy is about to vanish. \n\nThe Jury Crisis: Whats Wrong with Jury Trials and How We Can Save Them addresses the near collapse of the jury trial in America its causes, consequences, and cures. Drury Sherrod brings his unique perspective as a social psychologist who became a jury consultant to the reader, appl.