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The British Journal of Criminology 33:70-80 (1993)
© 1993 Centre for Crime & Justice Studies (formerly ISTD)

RESEARCH-ARTICLE

THE SOCIAL PSYCHOLOGY OF SELECTING JURY FOREPERSONS

RAMESH DEOSARAN*

* Senior Lecturer and Head of Department, Department of Sociology, University of the West Indies Trinidad

This study seeks to analyse the reasons behind a phenomenon widespread among juries: namely, why in a disproportionate number of cases upper- and middle-class persons are chosen as jury forepersons over lower-class persons. Why do these lower-class persons themselves make such skewed choices even when they do not know the social background of the middle- and upper-class persons? What are the implications of such a selection process? The study gathered data from a formerly colonial society, Trinidad and Tobago, which inherited the British judicial and political system.


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