Bias in the legal decision making process has been given considerable attention over the last few decades. However, research regarding biases by juries and juror members has been inconsistent and inconclusive. The majority of this research has focused on African Americans to the exclusion of other racial groups. One under represented group that has yet to be given adequate attention is Hispanics, and more specifically, Mexican Americans. This purpose of this dissertation was to examine prejudice against Mexican American defendants in the legal system from an aversive racism perspective (Dovidio & Gaertner, 1986). Two-hundred and forty-seven participants read through a trial transcript that varied defendant race (Mexican American or European...
The present study used a realistic jury simulation to examine the relationship between race and lega...
The present studies compare the judgments of White and Black mock jurors in interracial trials. In S...
Race matters in the criminal justice system. Black defendants appear to fare worse than similarly si...
Bias in the legal decision making process has been given considerable attention over the last few de...
The purpose of this research was to examine how ethnicity, immigration status, and socioeconomic sta...
Implicit bias by jurors towards immigrants in the United States legal system has become a main focus...
In recent years, social injustice and racial bias in the United States has become a main focus withi...
Common wisdom seems to suggest that racial bias, defined as disparate treatment of minority defendan...
Before the 1990s controlled research using mock jurors consistently found black defendants guilty mo...
In a time of heightened tension in the United States, we explored how defendant race (White vs. Blac...
Both Black and White jurors exhibit a racial bias by being more likely to find defendants of a diffe...
The tendency for lawyers to use their peremptory challenges to exclude all blacks from juries when t...
Many studies have investigated factors that affect juror decision making. The results of these studi...
This study focuses on how defendants’ race or ethnicity influence the formation of court officials’ ...
A race stereotypic crime is a crime that most people tend to associate with a certain race. This is ...
The present study used a realistic jury simulation to examine the relationship between race and lega...
The present studies compare the judgments of White and Black mock jurors in interracial trials. In S...
Race matters in the criminal justice system. Black defendants appear to fare worse than similarly si...
Bias in the legal decision making process has been given considerable attention over the last few de...
The purpose of this research was to examine how ethnicity, immigration status, and socioeconomic sta...
Implicit bias by jurors towards immigrants in the United States legal system has become a main focus...
In recent years, social injustice and racial bias in the United States has become a main focus withi...
Common wisdom seems to suggest that racial bias, defined as disparate treatment of minority defendan...
Before the 1990s controlled research using mock jurors consistently found black defendants guilty mo...
In a time of heightened tension in the United States, we explored how defendant race (White vs. Blac...
Both Black and White jurors exhibit a racial bias by being more likely to find defendants of a diffe...
The tendency for lawyers to use their peremptory challenges to exclude all blacks from juries when t...
Many studies have investigated factors that affect juror decision making. The results of these studi...
This study focuses on how defendants’ race or ethnicity influence the formation of court officials’ ...
A race stereotypic crime is a crime that most people tend to associate with a certain race. This is ...
The present study used a realistic jury simulation to examine the relationship between race and lega...
The present studies compare the judgments of White and Black mock jurors in interracial trials. In S...
Race matters in the criminal justice system. Black defendants appear to fare worse than similarly si...