Selected Works on Jury Decision Making

  • Willmott, D., Boduszek, D. & Booth., N. (2026). Profiling Jury Bias in Rape Trials: Examining the link between Juror Characteristics and Trial Decisions. In E. Dowds, S. Weare & S. Leahy (Eds.). Researching Rape Trials: Methods, Ethics and Empirical Perspectives. London: Routledge.
  • Headd, S., & Willmott, D. (2026). Do pre-trial juror attitudes predict rape trial verdict decisions? Investigating the role of rape myth beliefs, contemporary sexist attitudes and sexual victimisation experiences on juror decision-making. British Journal of Criminology.
  • Willmott, D. & Woodhams, R. (2026). Stranger Rape or Impromptu Consensual Sex? Investigating Mock Juror Decision-Making in a Genuine Contested Rape Trial. Behavioral Sciences & the Law.
  • Weare, S., Millar, M. & Willmott, D. (2026). Jury Decision Making in Forced to Penetrate Trials. Policy Brief: Lancaster University Press.
  • Willmott, D., Curley, L., & Widanaralalage, K. (2026). Jury Decision Making. In Fido, D., Zangeneh, M., & Spenser, K. (2026). Core Foundations and Contemporary Issues in Forensic Psychology: A Handbook for Students, Trainees, and Practitioners (pp. 349-366). Springer Nature: Switzerland.
  • Richardson, E., Jenkins, L. & Willmott, D. (2025). Rape Myths, Jury Deliberations, and Conversation Analysis: Examining conversational practices used to undermine rape complaints within (mock) jury deliberations. Journal of Criminal Justice, 99,
  • Weare, S., Willmott, D. & Millar, M. (2025). Jury Decision Making in Male Rape Trials. Policy Brief: Lancaster University Press.
  • Millar, M., Weare, S. & Willmott, D. (2025). Jurors’ determinations of guilt in sexual offences involving male victims: A systematic review. Trauma, Violence and Abuse.
  • Hudspith, L., Wager, N., Willmott, D., & Gallagher, B. (2024). The Impact of Rape Myth Education on Jury Decision-Making: A Systematic Review. Trauma, Violence & Abuse.
  • Lilley, C., Willmott, D. & Mojtahedi, D. (2023). Juror Characteristics on Trial: Investigating how Psychopathic Traits, Rape Attitudes, Victimisation Experiences and Juror Demographics influence Decision-Making in an Intimate Partner Rape Trial. Frontiers in Psychiatry, 13, 1086026.
  • Hudspith, L., Wager, N., Willmott, D., & Gallagher, B. (2023). Forty Years of Rape Myth Acceptance Interventions: A Systematic Review of What Works in Naturalistic Institutional Settings and How this can be Applied to Educational Guidance for Jurors.  Trauma, Violence, & Abuse, 24(2), 981-1000.
  • Daly, E., Smith, O., Bows, H., Brown, J., Chalmers, J., Cowan, S., Horvath, M., Leverick, F., Lovett, J., Munro, V., Willmott, D.(2023). Myths about Myths? A Commentary on Thomas (2020) and the Question of Jury Rape Myth Acceptance. Journal of Gender-Based Violence, 7(1),189-200.  
  • Willmott, D., Boduszek, D., Debowska, A., & Hudspith, L. (2021). Jury Decision Making in Rape Trials: An Attitude Problem? In D. Crighton & G. Towl (Eds.), Forensic Psychology (3rd, pp. 94-119). Chichester: Wiley.
  • Willmott, D.,Boduszek, D., Debowska, A. & Woodfield, R. (2018). Introduction and Validation of the Juror Decision Scale (JDS): An Empirical Investigation of the Story Model. Journal of Criminal Justice, 57, 26-34.