Justice, democracy, and the jury

Part 1 Justice and the jury: the conventional view of the jury's role clues to a different role a four-stage process of adjudication jury justice reaching consensus on a just verdict the hierarchy between law and justice. Part 2 Doing justice: the justice of the law the justice of sanction the jury and legislative reform the jury in a resisting roll the jury in an individualistic rawly the justice of the criminal justice system heightening the jury's sensitivity to the demands of justice. Part 3 Judge versus jury: the jury and its critics a question of competency the problem of bias corruptibility the judge's dilemma the mathematical advantages of the jury fact-finding the synergism and dialectics of jury deliberation. Part 4 Democracy and the jury: the selection of a jury the democracy of the jury the democratic dividend the jury as democratic determiners of the law the democratization of the British jury the democratization of US jury democracy and the peremptory challenge exemptions and excusals. Part 5 Justice versus democracy: peers and prejudice proportional representation democracy's threat to justice conscience versus constituency the primacy of justice a balancing of biases the dynamics of the democratic jury. Part 6 The selection and training of jurors: impartiality the relationship between knowledge and impartiality the myth of the impartial juror the search for impartial jurors the role of the court in the jury selection. Part 7 From the world of law to the world at large: the jury as process democracy in decline recapturing democracy citizens' juries in practice learning from citizens juries reinventing representative government.