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@larstransportworld Kult. Et lite land med et stort folk.

@ChrisMayLA6 @Murf Linguists (in distinction from criminologists) would say that the notion of being judged by a jury of fellows may sound like a nice piece of rhetoric, but the sociological perspective might want to note that jury selection is also far from a neutral process. Come the day when junkies get to pass sentence on junkies!

@ChrisMayLA6 @Murf This is an enormous simplification. If the jury delivers a guilty verdict when the accused is innocent then the jury is part of the problem, as the judge and lay-judges would be in the current system in Norway.

2 minutes and 30 seconds of research revealed that there is lots of competent writing on this topic, e.g. https://www.regjeringen.no/no/dokumenter/nou-2011-13/id648073/

Translation software will be able to assist English speakers to understand the documentation.

@ChrisMayLA6 Right, so then there are some known miscarriages, and one could go in and study those to see the votes of the various judges and jury members? Since Norway abolished the jury system a few years ago, there is strong reasons to believe that such studies exist. It isn't likely that such a momentous decision would be made without reliable data. Sociologists tend not to abandon the concept of data alltogether?

@ChrisMayLA6 Isn't the critical question what serves justice best? Do lay people have a tendency to wrongfully acquit people who should be sentenced, and to sentence people who should be acquitted? Surely, it must be possible to find some data on this, Professor May?