Current research on media and the law has generally been atheoretical and contradictory. This volume explains why pretrial publicity is unlikely to affect the outcome of most jury trials, despite many experimental studies claiming to show the influence of publicity. It reviews existing literature on the topic and includes results from the authors' own research in an effort to answer four questions: *Does pretrial publicity bias the outcome of trials? *If it has an effect, under what conditions does this effect emerge? *What remedies should courts apply in situations where pretrial publicity may have an effect? *How does pretrial publicity relate to broader questions of justice? Reporting research based on actual trial outcomes rather than on artificial laboratory studies, Free Press vs. Fair Trials examines publicity in the context of the whole judicial system and media system. After a thorough review of research into pretrial publicity, the authors argue that the criminal justice system's remedies are likely to be effective in most cases and that there are much larger obstacles confronting defendants than publicity. This book presents the first extensive study of the influence of pretrial publicity on actual criminal trials, with results that challenge years of experimental research and call for more sophisticated study of the intersection of media and criminal justice. It is required reading for scholars in media law, media effects, legal communication, criminal justice, and related areas.
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There are many aspects to pretrial publicity that make it fun to think about, not the least of which is the maze of overlapping attentions and interwoven interests that it seems to conjure. Read the first page Key Phrases - Statistically Improbable Phrases (SIPs): (learn more)
remedy hypothesis, pleaded sentence, pretrial publicity bias, identical conviction rates, pretrial judgments, publicity effect, postdeliberation verdicts, pretrial coverage, pretrial information, negative pretrial publicity, probative information, predeliberation verdicts, inadmissible statements, criminal conviction rates, low publicity, personal safety concern, publicity condition, crime coverage, mock jurors, multinomial regression, delay between exposure, statistical deviance, retracted confession, preexisting biases, publicity research Key Phrases - Capitalized Phrases (CAPs): (learn more)
Percent of Charges Pleaded, Average Length of Pleaded Sentence, Los Angeles, Federal Judicial Center, New York, American Bar Association, Elaboration Likelihood Model, First Amendment, Sixth Amendment New!
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There are many aspects to pretrial publicity that make it fun to think about, not the least of which is the maze of overlapping attentions and interwoven interests that it seems to conjure. Read the first page Key Phrases - Statistically Improbable Phrases (SIPs): (learn more)
remedy hypothesis, pleaded sentence, pretrial publicity bias, identical conviction rates, pretrial judgments, publicity effect, postdeliberation verdicts, pretrial coverage, pretrial information, negative pretrial publicity, probative information, predeliberation verdicts, inadmissible statements, criminal conviction rates, low publicity, personal safety concern, publicity condition, crime coverage, mock jurors, multinomial regression, delay between exposure, statistical deviance, retracted confession, preexisting biases, publicity research Key Phrases - Capitalized Phrases (CAPs): (learn more)
Percent of Charges Pleaded, Average Length of Pleaded Sentence, Los Angeles, Federal Judicial Center, New York, American Bar Association, Elaboration Likelihood Model, First Amendment, Sixth Amendment New!
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- Social Psychology by Steven Penrod in Back Matter (1), and Back Matter (2)
- Social Psychology: Text with CD-ROM and Critical Thinking Reader by Sharon Brehm in Back Matter (1), and Back Matter (2)
- Social Psychology by Ronald J. Fisher in Back Matter (1), and Back Matter (2)
- Social Psychology: Third Edition by Eliot R. Smith in Back Matter (1), and Back Matter (2)
- An Integrated Approach to Communication Theory and Research by Michael B. Salwen in Front Matter
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