Intro -- CONTENTS -- List of Tables -- List of Figures -- Acknowledgements -- Chapter 1: The Death Penalty and Discretion in America -- Chapter 2: The Role of the Jury -- Death Qualification -- Instructional Comprehension -- Racial Bias in Jury Decision-Making -- Deliberation Errors -- Group Dynamics in Deliberation -- Chapter 3: Understanding Groups in Context -- The Impact of Deliberating Groups -- Understanding Processes within Groups -- Related Group Process Research -- The Next Step -- Chapter 4: Measuring Groups with the Capital Jury Project -- Hypotheses -- Data -- Sample Selection -- The Final Sample -- Variables -- Missing Data -- Analytic Technique -- Chapter 5: Testing Group Dynamics -- Preliminary Testing -- Hierarchical Linear Models -- Logistic Regressions -- Chapter 6: What Juries Do: Putting it All Together -- Limitations -- Future Directions -- Policy Implications -- Appendix -- References -- Index.

Connell focuses on the role that deliberation has on the juror's perception of group functioning, measured here by the construct of group climate. Her results suggest individual juror characteristics do not have a direct effect on sentencing outcomes; rather, the level of group climate acts as a mediating variable between individual characteristics and outcomes. Trial level characteristics directly predict sentencing and indirectly operate through the level of group climate. Group climate is the strongest predictor of outcomes, with juries who have more positive perceptions of group climate more likely to return the death penalty.

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