Juries, lay judges, and mixed courts [electronic resource] : a global perspective / edited by Sanja Kutnjak Ivkovic, Shari Seidman Diamond, Valerie P. Hans, Nancy S. Marder.

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 a...

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Online Access:	Full Text (via Cambridge)
Other Authors:	Kutnjak Ivković, Sanja, 1965- (Editor), Diamond, Shari Seidman (Editor), Hans, Valerie P. (Editor), Marder, Nancy S. (Editor)
Other title:	Cambridge Core online.
Format:	Electronic eBook
Language:	English
Published:	Cambridge : Cambridge University Press, 2021.
Series:	ASCL studies in comparative law.
Subjects:	Criminal justice, Administration of > Citizen participation.