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Radical Enfranchisement in the Jury Room and Public Life Sonali Chakravarti

Radical Enfranchisement in the Jury Room and Public Life By Sonali Chakravarti

Radical Enfranchisement in the Jury Room and Public Life by Sonali Chakravarti


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Radical Enfranchisement in the Jury Room and Public Life by Sonali Chakravarti

Juries have been at the center of some of the most emotionally charged moments of political life. At the same time, their capacity for legitimate decision making has been under scrutiny, with events like the acquittal of George Zimmerman by a Florida jury for the shooting of Trayvon Martin and the decisions of several grand juries not to indict police officers for the killing of unarmed black men. Meanwhile, the overall use of juries had also declined in recent years, with most cases settled or resolved by plea bargain. With Radical Enfranchisement in the Jury Room and Public Life, Sonali Chakravarti offers a full-throated defense of juries as a democratic institution. She argues that juries provide an important site for democratic action by citizens and that their use should be revived. The jury, Chakravarti argues, could be a forward-looking institution that nurtures the best democratic instincts of citizens, but this requires a change in civic education regarding the skills that should be cultivated in jurors before and through the process of a trial. Being a juror, perhaps counter-intuitively, can guide citizens in how to be thoughtful rule-breakers by changing their relationship to their own perceptions and biases and by making options for collective action salient, but they must be better prepared and instructed along the way.

About Sonali Chakravarti

Sonali Chakravarti is associate professor of government at Wesleyan University. She is the author of Sing the Rage, also published by the University of Chicago Press.

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GOR013954036
9780226654294
022665429X
Radical Enfranchisement in the Jury Room and Public Life by Sonali Chakravarti
Used - Very Good
Paperback
The University of Chicago Press
2019-10-21
168
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