Punitive damages [electronic resource] : how juries decide / Cass R. Sunstein ... [et al.] ; with an introduction by George L. Priest.

9780226780160 (ebook) :

Chicago, [Ill.] : University of Chicago Press, 2002.

1 online resource (xi, 285 p.) : ill.

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How do juries make decisions about punitive damages? The authors present the results of controlled experiments with more than 600 mock juries involving the responses of more than 8,000 jury-eligible citizens. Although juries tended to agree in their moral judgments about the defendant's conduct, they rendered erratic and unpredictable dollar awards. Using a wealth of new experimental data, and offering a host of provocative findings, this book documents a wide range of systematic biases in jury behaviour.

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September 22, 2015

Includes bibliographical references and index.