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White Collar Crime in Contemporary Society
Assessment of the objectivity and likely competence of trial juries in white collar crime cases
The biggest and most important aspect of trial juries in white collar crimes is the personal likeness towards an individual or a prospect that sways their judgment. There is a lot of speculation on a trial jury's personal traits and trends of prior judgments that can allow the court to understand even before the case starts on how the jury will most likely vote. This hampers a complete objective decision; as, even if the majority of the jury members in a trial do end up taking complete objective decisions, there are always one or two sway votes that are not bound to be completely objective (Friedrichs, 2010). Furthermore, there is also significant skepticism with regards to whether or not the modern structures of crime are baffling the modern trial juries and thus leaving their judgments incompetent. This is especially true in the case of the white collar crimes as they are a constantly evolving and complicated sector of crime and can result in confusion for the trial juries; and, thus we can see the result being a very haphazard trend of sentencing by the trial jury for differing white collar...
All these personal characteristics play a strong part in the representativeness of jurors in criminal cases as the most balanced and appropriate personal characteristics are chosen and then those are used to control or guide the group dynamics (Friedrichs, 2010). Irrespective of this, there will always be certain biases that will surface based on not just the personal characteristics but the social opinions and pressures that the individuals face which will hamper their competence as well to make the right and correct decisions. Whether or not the social biases towards a case affects the juror's competence, the fact that the modern nature of white collar crimes is extremely complicated, the chances of the jurors being incompetent to tackle the intricacies is still very high (Moore et al., 1996).
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