A Jury of Her Peers
The Impact of the First Female Jurors on Criminal Convictions
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 9714935 |
|---|---|
| Authors | SHAMENA ANWAR (0000-0002-5794-0808, RAND Corporation), Patrick Bayer (0000-0003-4884-5873, Duke University and NBER), Randi Hjalmarsson (0000-0002-3512-8325, University of Gothenburg and CEPR, corresponding author) |
| Year | 2019 |
| Volume | 129 |
| Issue | 618 |
| Pages | 603-650 |
| Publication date | 2019-02-01 |
| Peer Reviewed | Yes |
| Open Access | Yes |
| Type | ARTICLE |
| Venue | The Economic Journal (JOURNAL) |
| Journal identifiers | ISSN: 0013-0133 • E-ISSN: 1468-0297 |
| Publisher | Oxford University Press (OUP) (PUBLISHER) |
| DOI | 10.1111/ecoj.12562 |
| OpenAlex | W3124246882 |
| Language | EN |
| Citations received | 1 |
| References cited | 32 |
This article uses an original data set of more than 3,000 cases from 1918 to 1926 in the Central Criminal Courts of London to study the effect of the Sex Disqualification (Removal) Act of 1919. Implemented in 1921, this Act made women eligible to serve on English juries. Results based on a pre-post research design imply that the inclusion of women had little effect on overall conviction rates but significantly impacted conviction rates on particularly female salient cases: sex offences, violent offences with female versus male victims and female defendants charged with 'other' (largely abortion related) offences
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| Unique citing works | 1 |
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| Citations per year | 1 |
| Citation span | 2025 - 2025 (1) |
| Citation velocity | recent |
| Highly cited | No |
| Citation types | Neutral: 1 |