functioning and the purposes of the jury that we had not had before. Our
fondest hope is that our book will provide new insights for others as well.

We are indebted to a large number of people who graciously reviewed
drafts of our manuscript and made valuable suggestions about its content and
style. First and foremost is Linda Regan, who was largely responsible for
turning our social science jargon into livelier, more readable prose. Colleagues
Richard Lempert, Steven Penrod, and Tom Tyler magnanimously agreed to
review the entire manuscript in draft form. Their insightful comments on what
we had underemphasized, overemphasized, or left out entirely, proved to be
particularly valuable. After agreeing to write the Foreward, Hans Zeisel made
trenchant observations about the jury and our book that we were happily able
to incorporate into the final version. Numerous friends and colleagues read
individual chapters and provided extremely useful comments, including Wil-
liam Allen, Margaret Andersen, Catherine Fox Byers, Christopher Boorse,
Samuel Gaertner, Craig Haney, Betsy Hans, James Inciardi, Catherine
McLaughlin, James Nathan, David Saunders, Dan Slater, Pat Steele, and
Robert Takasugi. A number of our students at the University of Delaware
and the University of Western Ontario also read many of the chapters and
gave their reactions. Judging the Jury thus reflects not only our own views
but the collective wisdom of these friends, students, and colleagues.

Supportive environments at our respective universities encouraged us in
our collaborative scholarship. Valerie Hans is indebted to the University of
Delaware for a special Grant-in-Aid to facilitate preparation of the manuscript
and a General University Research Grant. Neil Vidmar would like to ac-
knowledge support from the Russell Sage Foundation, Battelle Seattle Re-
search Center, the Social Sciences and Humanities Research Council of Can-
ada, and the Faculty of Social Science and the School of Law at the University
of Western Ontario. This financial and institutional support made our task
much easier. Finally, we would like to recognize our debt to each other.
Either of us probably could have written this book alone, but the experience
would not have been nearly as much fun.

VALERIE P. HANS
NEIL VIDMAR

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