Do Juries Meet Our Expectations?
Surveys of public opinion indicate that people have high expectations for juries. When it comes to serious crimes, most people want errors of convicting the innocent (false positives) or acquitting the guilty (false negatives) to fall well below 10%. Using expected utility theory, Bayes' Theore...
| Veröffentlicht in: | Law and Human Behavior. - Kluwer Academic/Plenum Publishers, 1977. - 26(2002), 6, Seite 625-639 |
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| Sprache: | English |
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2002
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| Zugriff auf das übergeordnete Werk: | Law and Human Behavior |
| Schlagworte: | Jury decision making Bayes' Theorem Signal detection theory Expected utility theory Law Mathematics Behavioral sciences Economics |
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