Storytelling Rituals in Jury Deliberations

Storytelling Rituals in Jury Deliberations

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Research on jury deliberation tends to focus on deliberative outcomes, such as verdict decisions.Less attention is paid R/C Car to the actual process of deliberation.This paper analyzes a video recording of a mock jury deliberation in a simulated criminal trial, focusing on facial expression, gesture, and discourse.Drawing on ethnomethodology and micro-sociological theories of ritual, I examine how jurors make sense of the evidence presented to them and how they work together to collectively produce NEFF D94QFM1N0B N50 Built In 90cm 3 Speeds A Chimney Cooker Hood Stainless touch a coherent narrative of events.

I argue that a focus on the ritual dynamics of the deliberation help to understand how such a co-production can occur.