Radical Enfranchisement in the Jury Room and Public Life
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Table of Contents
Contents
Acknowledgments
Introduction
Chapter One: Mature Enough to Disobey: Jurors, Women, and Radical Enfranchisement in Tocqueville’s Democracy in America
Chapter Two: Mistaken for Consensus: Hung Juries, the Allen Charge, and the End of Jury Deliberation
Chapter Three: No One but You: Jurors and the Internal Standard of Reasonable Doubt
Chapter Four: Guilty, Not Guilty, Nullify: Nullification in an Age of Abolition
Chapter Five: Radical Enfranchisement in the Jury Room
Notes
Bibliography
Index
Introduction
Chapter One: Mature Enough to Disobey: Jurors, Women, and Radical Enfranchisement in Tocqueville’s Democracy in America
Chapter Two: Mistaken for Consensus: Hung Juries, the Allen Charge, and the End of Jury Deliberation
Chapter Three: No One but You: Jurors and the Internal Standard of Reasonable Doubt
Chapter Four: Guilty, Not Guilty, Nullify: Nullification in an Age of Abolition
Chapter Five: Radical Enfranchisement in the Jury Room
Notes
Bibliography
Index
Review Quotes
Robert P. Burns | Northwestern Public Law Research Paper
"...a fresh and sophisticated perspective on the American jury trial and a lens through which lawyers should see this institution and set of practices anew. The questions [Chakravarti's] account raises are among the most important in the criminal justice system."
Mark Golub | Theory & Event
"Radical Enfranchisement in the Jury Room and Public Life marks a continuation of Sonali Chakravarti's careful thinking about institutional responses to social crises and systemic injustice."
Law and Social Inquiry
"Chakravarti argues that juries provide an important site for democratic action by citizens and that their use should be revived. . . Being a juror, she concludes, might guide citizens in how to be thoughtful rule-breakers by changing their relationship to their own perceptions and biases and by making options for collective action salient."
Albert William Dzur, Bowling Green State University
“With controversial cases such as the George Zimmerman jury trial and the Ferguson grand jury deliberations still a vivid part of the national dialogue on race and criminal justice, Radical Enfranchisement in the Jury Room and Public Life has pressing practical importance as well as intellectual significance. Chakravarti seeks to renew appreciation for the juridical and democratic values of the jury by showing how something she calls ‘radical enfranchisement’ can develop and guide citizen deliberation during a trial. Her work expands our understanding of civic education, jury deliberation, and civil disobedience and sends an urgently needed message about renewing the jury’s place in the justice system and in American democracy broadly conceived.”
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