The health effects of jury service

  • Shuman D
  • Hamilton J
  • Daley C
  • et al.
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The question posed by this Article is: Are the benefits of jury trials reciprocal? Jurors may benefit the trial process, but does the trial process benefit jurors? To discover what negative health effects, if any, arise after serving as a juror in traumatic and nontraumatic criminal trials, 312 individuals who had served on 26 Dallas County Criminal District Court juries within the preceding 4 to 6 months were sent questionnaires. Half of these jurors were exposed to traumatic criminal trials and half were exposed to nontraumatic criminal trials. This Article examines our hypothesis that jurors experience negative health effects as a result of jury service, such as symptoms of depression or PTSD, and that these negative health effects will differ depending on whether the trial is traumatic or nontraumatic. [Text, pp. 268-269]

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Shuman, D. W., Hamilton, J. A., Daley, C. E., Behinfar, D. J., Bitner, R. H., Bolton, D., … Whitmore, J. J. (1994). The health effects of jury service. Law and Psychology Review, 18, 267–307. Retrieved from http://ezproxy.library.nyu.edu:2048/login?url=http://search.proquest.com/docview/42392903?accountid=12768

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