| 来源类型 | Discussion paper |
| 规范类型 | 论文 |
| 来源ID | DP10589 |
| DP10589 Politics in the Courtroom: Political Ideology and Jury Decision Making | |
| Randi Hjalmarsson; Patrick Bayer | |
| 发表日期 | 2015-05-10 |
| 出版年 | 2015 |
| 语种 | 英语 |
| 摘要 | This paper uses data from the Gothenburg District Court in Sweden and a research design that exploits the random assignment of politically appointed jurors (termed nämndemän) to make three contributions to the literature on jury decision-making: (i) an assessment of whether systematic biases exist in the Swedish nämndemän system, (ii) causal evidence on the impact of juror political party on verdicts, and (iii) an empirical examination of the role of peer effects in jury decision-making. The results reveal a number of systematic biases: convictions for young defendants and those with distinctly Arabic sounding names increase substantially when they are randomly assigned jurors from the far-right (nationalist) Swedish Democrat party, while convictions in cases with a female victim increase markedly when they are assigned jurors from the far-left (feminist) Vänster party. The results also indicate the presence of peer effects, with jurors from both the far-left and far-right parties drawing the votes of their more centrist peers towards their positions. Peer effects take the form of both sway effects, where jurors influence the opinions of their closest peers in a way that can impact trial outcomes, and dissent aversion, where jurors switch non-pivotal votes so that the decision is unanimous. |
| 主题 | Labour Economics ; Public Economics |
| 关键词 | Crime Jury Peer effects Politics |
| URL | https://cepr.org/publications/dp10589 |
| 来源智库 | Centre for Economic Policy Research (United Kingdom) |
| 资源类型 | 智库出版物 |
| 条目标识符 | http://119.78.100.153/handle/2XGU8XDN/539421 |
| 推荐引用方式 GB/T 7714 | Randi Hjalmarsson,Patrick Bayer. DP10589 Politics in the Courtroom: Political Ideology and Jury Decision Making. 2015. |
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