Subtle Bias in Legal Decision Making: How Attitudes and Social Norms Affect Primary and Peripheral Targets

Before the 1990s controlled research using mock jurors consistently found black defendants guilty more often than white. However, more recently, research has generally failed to find this effect. One explanation is that prejudice has been reduced so much that there is no longer an effect. While the...

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Main Author: Huggon, William Gordon
Other Authors: Freedman, Jonathan L.
Language:en_ca
Published: 2012
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Online Access:http://hdl.handle.net/1807/44084