Juries, Science and Popular Culture in the Age of Terror : The Case of the Sydney Bomber / edited by David Tait, Jane Goodman-Delahunty.

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Tait, David., Editor.

Goodman-Delahunty, Jane., Editor.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Terrorism.

Political violence.

Transnational crime.

Organized crime.

Culture.

Criminal law.

Terrorism and Political Violence.

Transnational Crime.

Organized Crime.

Sociology of Culture.

Criminal Law and Criminal Procedure Law.

Local Subjects:

Terrorism and Political Violence.

Transnational Crime.

Organized Crime.

Sociology of Culture.

Criminal Law and Criminal Procedure Law.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (XIII, 292 p. 14 illus., 6 illus. in color.)

Edition:

1st ed. 2017.

Place of Publication:

London : Palgrave Macmillan UK : Imprint: Palgrave Macmillan, 2017.

Summary:

Terrorism has become an everyday reality in most contemporary societies. In a context of heightened fear can juries be trusted to remain impartial when confronted by defendants charged with terrorism? Do they scrutinize prosecution cases carefully, or does emotion trump reason once the spectre of terrorism is invoked? This book examines these questions from a range of disciplinary perspectives. The authors look at the how jurors in terrorism trials are likely to respond to gruesome evidence, including beheading videos. The 'CSI effect' is examined as a possible response to forensic evidence, and jurors with different learning preferences are compared. Virtual interactive environments, built like computer games, may be created to provide animated reconstructions of the prosecution or defence case. This book reports on how to create such presentations, culminating in the analysis of a live simulated trial using interactive visual displays followed by jury deliberations. < The team of international, transdisciplinary experts draw conclusions of global legal and political significance, and contribute to the growing scholarship on comparative counter-terrorism law. The book will be of great interest to scholars, students and practitioners of law, criminal justice, forensic science and psychology.

Contents:

1. Understanding Terrorism Trials

2. The Legal Landscape in Terrorism Trials

3. Terrorist Trials

4. Animating the Bomber

5. Gruesome Evidence

6. Assessing Unfair Prejudice from Extremist Images in Terrorism Trials

7. Displaying the Bomb on the Train

8. Research Aims and Methods

9.The Sydney Bomber Study

10. Images of Interactive Virtual Environments

11. How Juries Talked about Visual Evidence

12. CSI Effects on Jury Reasoning and Verdicts

13. The Effect of Deliberation on Jury Verdicts

14. Making Sense of the Evidence

15. Conclusions.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references and index.

ISBN:

9781137554758

1137554754