A Jury of Her Peers: The Impact of the First Female Jurors on Criminal Convictions

• 成果类型: Article
• 署名作者: Anwar, Shamena; Bayer, Patrick; Hjalmarsson, Randi
• 署名单位: RAND Corporation; Duke University; National Bureau of Economic Research; University of Gothenburg; Center for Economic & Policy Research (CEPR)
• 刊物名称: ECONOMIC JOURNAL
• ISSN/ISSBN: 0013-0133
• DOI: 10.1111/ecoj.12562
• 发表日期: 2019
• 页码: 603-650
• 关键词: death qualification; decision-making; GENDER; testimony; diversity; selection; TRIAL; crime; women; sex

摘要

This article uses an original data set of more than 3,000 cases from 1918 to 1926 in the Central Criminal Courts of London to study the effect of the Sex Disqualification (Removal) Act of 1919. Implemented in 1921, this Act made women eligible to serve on English juries. Results based on a pre-post research design imply that the inclusion of women had little effect on overall conviction rates but significantly impacted conviction rates on particularly female salient cases: sex offences, violent offences with female versus male victims and female defendants charged with other' (largely abortion related) offences.