APS
31st APS Annual Convention · 2019
Privacy Please: Capital Trial Voir Dire As a Predictor of Sentencing Judgments
- Krista Lutz
The University of North Carolina at Wilmington - Emily Hargrove
The University of North Carolina at Wilmington - David Zimmerman
Missouri State - Rachel Kantor
University of North Carolina Wilmington - Brianna Beeman
UNC Wilmington - Christine Macellaro
The University of North Carolina at Wilmington - Abigail Grise
The University of North Carolina at Wilmington - Bryan Myers
The University of North Carolina at Wilmington
Abstract
After completing a 10-item measure of death penalty support, 65 participants read a summary of a capital trial penalty phase and rendered sentencing judgments. The voir dire questioning of death penalty attitudes was conducted in public or in private. Attitudes measured privately, but not publically, were significantly correlated with sentencing.
Forensic/Criminal Justice
