| Description |
174 pages ; 21 cm |
|
regular print |
| Series |
Contemporary issues |
|
Contemporary issues (Nedlands, W.A.)
|
| Contents |
Preface / Chris Cuneen -- Introduction / Kate Auty and Sandy Toussaint. Pt. I. Being "in" and "of" the jury: 1. Three jurors' tales / Anon -- 2. Waiting for the jury / Liz Gaynor. Pt. II. Jury competence and the questionable need for change: 3. Jury comptetence, decision-making and nullification / Ivan Vodanovich. Pt. III. Outsiders in the jury system: 4. "Mr Neal is entitled to be an agitator": Indigenous people put upon their country / Richard Frankland -- 5. Putting Aboriginal defendants off their country / Kate Auty. Pt. IV: Women as outsiders in the jury system: 6. One Indigenous woman and what "her" jury did not hear / Sarah Ford and Kate Auty -- 7. Self-defence and women's lives: reality and unreality in criminal justice / Jocelynne A. Scutt -- Afterword / Kate Auty |
| Summary |
How well does our jury system work, and does trial by jury guarantee justice to those brought before it? A Jury of Whose Peers examines the workings of the jury system in Australia, exploring it from a range of perspectives, including the experiences of jurors, lawyers, barristers, an anthropologist and an indigenous writer |
| Analysis |
Juries |
|
Decision making |
|
Attitudes |
|
Cultural values |
|
Justice |
|
Case studies |
| Notes |
Includes index |
| Bibliography |
Bibliography: pages 152-172 |
| Subject |
Trial practice -- Australia.
|
|
Justice, Administration of -- Australia.
|
|
Jury -- Australia.
|
| Author |
Toussaint, Sandy.
|
|
Auty, Kate.
|
| LC no. |
00002528 |
| ISBN |
192069417X : |
|
