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Full-Text Articles in Law and Race
Response, Values And Assumptions In Criminal Adjudication, Benjamin Levin
Response, Values And Assumptions In Criminal Adjudication, Benjamin Levin
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This Response to Andrew Manuel Crespo's Systemic Facts: Toward Institutional Awareness in Criminal Courts proceeds in two Parts. In Part I, I argue that Crespo presents a compelling case for the importance of systemic factfinding to the task of criminal court judges. If, as a range of scholars has argued, criminal courts are increasingly serving a quasi-administrative function, then shouldn’t they at least be administrating accurately? Systemic Facts provides a novel account of how — with comparatively little institutional reform — courts might begin to serve as more effective administrators. However, in Part II, I also argue that Crespo’s ...
Discrimination In Sentencing On The Basis Of Afrocentric Features, William T. Pizzi, Irene V. Blair, Charles M. Judd
Discrimination In Sentencing On The Basis Of Afrocentric Features, William T. Pizzi, Irene V. Blair, Charles M. Judd
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For a long time, social scientists have worried about possible racial discrimination in sentencing in the United States. With a prison population that exceeds two million inmates of whom approximately 48% are African American, the worry over the fairness of the sentencing process is understandable. This article is not about discrimination between racial categories as such, but about a related form of discrimination, namely, discrimination on the basis of a person's Afro-centric features. Section I of the article describes a line of social science research that shows that a person's Afro-centric features have a strong biasing effect on ...
Utilitarianism Left And Right: A Response To Professor Armour, Robert F. Nagel
Utilitarianism Left And Right: A Response To Professor Armour, Robert F. Nagel
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Name-Calling And The Clear Error Rule, Robert F. Nagel
Teaching Tolerance, Robert F. Nagel
Freedom Of Speech As Therapy, Pierre Schlag