Mock jury experiments use written or videotaped trials to test racial bias

Evidence

In virtually all of these studies, participants either read a written summary of trial evidence or watched a videotaped reenactment of a trial and then rendered verdicts or provided sentences for defendants of either their own race (an in-group member) or a different race (an out-group member). … Psychology researchers have performed numerous experimental investigations as to whether the results mimic the archival analyses of real criminal cases (e.g., Baldus et al., 2001). — Joseph Avery, Jim Sidanius, Joel Cooper, Gregory Davis, Amanda N., Bias in the Law, 845

Categorization

• XREF: connects to: Jury consultants use polling, focus groups, and mock trials. — G. Alan Tarr, Judicial Process and Judicial…, 836