Measuring Attitudes toward the Insanity Defense in Venirepersons: Refining the IDA-R in the Evaluation of Juror BiasFootnote¹

1. Portions of this paper are based on research presented at the 2007 convention of the American Psychological Association in San Francisco, California.

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