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Data Visualisation and Decision-making in Criminal Courts

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Date/Time
04 November 2017
10:30 am - 4:30 pm

Location
Williamson Building, University of Manchester
176 Oxford Road
Manchester
M13 9QQ

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How is information presented in criminal courts and what effect can this have on jurors?

The way information is displayed and presented can have a dramatic effect on a person’s judgement. Nowhere is this more evident than in a criminal trial when jurors have to decide whether a defendant is guilty or innocent. How evidence is presented visually can vastly affect a jurors decision.

At this event participants got a behind-the-scenes insight into how data is visualised in criminal courts. Audience members participated in a role-play mock trial, and posed questions to an expert in a Q & A session. The day included:

  • a multimedia presentation on decision-making, criminal trials and evidence, and the role of data visualisation in this process.
  • role-play activities: attendees had an opportunity to act as jurors and make decisions on the basis of visual presentations of evidence in a court-like setting.
  • a debriefing presentation by the researchers who talked the audience through the results of their mock trial, followed by a Q & A session for attendees with a legal practitioner.

 

Contact: Dr Reka Solymosi
Email: reka.solymosi@manchester.ac.uk

 

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