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Doctoral Thesis Claims Law & Order Is Harmfully Influencing Real-Life Jurors
by Adam Buckman | September 10, 2013 at 12:49 PM | Law Order SVU, TV News
Millions of Americans have absorbed an inaccurate impression of the criminal justice system by consuming hour upon hour of Law & Order episodes over the years, alleges an academician who studied the situation.
As a result, the academician writes, the original Law & Order series and its various spinoffs have negatively influenced potential jurors, who now are prone to assume that criminal-trial defendants are most likely guilty.
The allegations are contained in a doctoral thesis by Ph.D. candidate Adam Shniderman of the department of criminology, law and society at the University of California at Irvine...
http://xfinity.comcast.net/blogs/tv...er-is-harmfully-influencing-real-life-jurors/
by Adam Buckman | September 10, 2013 at 12:49 PM | Law Order SVU, TV News
Millions of Americans have absorbed an inaccurate impression of the criminal justice system by consuming hour upon hour of Law & Order episodes over the years, alleges an academician who studied the situation.
As a result, the academician writes, the original Law & Order series and its various spinoffs have negatively influenced potential jurors, who now are prone to assume that criminal-trial defendants are most likely guilty.
The allegations are contained in a doctoral thesis by Ph.D. candidate Adam Shniderman of the department of criminology, law and society at the University of California at Irvine...
http://xfinity.comcast.net/blogs/tv...er-is-harmfully-influencing-real-life-jurors/