Open AccessRace, witness credibility, and jury deliberation in a simulated drug trafficking trial.
Author(s) -
Emily V. Shaw,
Mona Lynch,
Sofia Isabel Laguna,
Steven J. Frenda
Publication year - 2021
Publication title -
law and human behavior
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 1.432
H-Index - 95
eISSN - 1573-661X
pISSN - 0147-7307
DOI - 10.1037/lhb0000449
Subject(s) - credibility , jury , witness , legal psychology , deliberation , psychology , race (biology) , criminology , social psychology , drug trafficking , law , political science , sociology , gender studies , politics
The present study integrates several distinct lines of jury decision-making research by examining how the racial identities of the defendant and an informant witness interact in a federal drug conspiracy trial scenario and by assessing whether jurors' individual racial identity and jury group racial composition influence their judgments.