Juries, Science and Popular Culture in the Age of Terror
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Juries, Science and Popular Culture in the Age of Terror

The Case of the Sydney Bomber

  1. 248 pages
  2. English
  3. PDF
  4. Available on iOS & Android
eBook - PDF

Juries, Science and Popular Culture in the Age of Terror

The Case of the Sydney Bomber

About this book

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.

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Yes, you can access Juries, Science and Popular Culture in the Age of Terror by David Tait, Jane Goodman-Delahunty, David Tait,Jane Goodman-Delahunty in PDF and/or ePUB format, as well as other popular books in Politics & International Relations & Criminal Law. We have over one million books available in our catalogue for you to explore.

Table of contents

  1. Acknowledgements
  2. Contents
  3. About the Authors
  4. List of Figures
  5. List of Tables
  6. 1: Understanding Terrorism Trials
  7. 2: The Legal Landscape in Terrorism Trials
  8. 3: Terrorist Trials: Forensic Science and the Trial Process
  9. 4: Animating the Bomber: The Sydney Bomber Trial
  10. 5: Gruesome Evidence: The Use of Beheading Videos and Other Disturbing Pictures in Terrorism Trials
  11. 6: Assessing Unfair Prejudice from Extremist Images in Terrorism Trials
  12. 7: Displaying the Bomb on the Train: The Challenge of Preparing Visual Evidence
  13. 8: Research Aims and Methods
  14. 9: The Sydney Bomber Study: Introducing the Mock Jurors
  15. 10: Images of Interactive Virtual Environments: Do They Affect Verdict?
  16. 11: How Juries Talked About Visual Evidence
  17. 12: CSI Effects on Jury Reasoning and Verdicts
  18. 13: The Effect of Deliberation on Jury Verdicts
  19. 14: Making Sense of the Evidence: Jury Deliberation and Common Sense
  20. 15: Conclusions
  21. Index