TY  - BOOK
AU  - Kutnjak Ivković,Sanja
AU  - Diamond,Shari Seidman
AU  - Hans,Valerie P.
AU  - Marder,Nancy S.
TI  - Juries, lay judges, and mixed courts: a global perspective 
T2  - ASCL studies in comparative law
SN  - 9781108669290 (ebook)
AV  - HV7419 .J97 2021
U1  - 364 23
PY  - 2021///
CY  - Cambridge
PB  - Cambridge University Press
KW  - Criminal justice, Administration of
KW  - Citizen participation
N1  - Title from publisher's bibliographic system (viewed on 03 Aug 2021)
N2  - Although most countries around the world use professional judges, they also rely on lay citizens, untrained in the law, to decide criminal cases. The participation of lay citizens helps to incorporate community perspectives into legal outcomes and to provide greater legitimacy for the legal system and its verdicts. This book offers a comprehensive and comparative picture of how nations use lay people in legal decision-making. It provides a much-needed, in-depth analysis of the different approaches to citizen participation and considers why some countries' use of lay participation is long-standing whereas other countries alter or abandon their efforts. This book examines the many ways in which countries around the world embrace, reject, or reform the way in which they use ordinary citizens in legal decision-making
UR  - https://doi.org/10.1017/9781108669290
ER  -