The influence of race on sentencing: A meta-analytic review of experimental studies.

By L. Sweeney, C. Haney. 1992

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• Fair Prediction with Disparate Impact: A Study of Bias in Recidivism Prediction Instruments (2016, background): “…we would like to note that there is a large body of literature showing that data-driven risk assessment instruments tend to be more accurate than professional human judgements [13, 14], and investigating whether human-driven decisions are themselves prone to exhibiting racial bias [15, 16].”
• Victim Blaming in Rape: Effects of Victim and Perpetrator Race, Type of Rape, and Participant Racism (2002, background): “In a meta-analytic review of mock jury studies, Sweeney and Haney (1992) found that perpetrator race biased sentencing decisions of jurors.”
• Race in the Courtroom: Perceptions of Guilt and Dispositional Attributions (2000, background): “against defendants of a different race (e.g., Klein & Creech, 1982; Sweeney & Haney, 1992 ), whereas others have found bias against defendants of the same race (McGowen & King, 1982).”
• Do they matter? A meta-analytic investigation of individual characteristics and guilt judgments. (2014, background): “The first published meta-analysis of a trial participant characteristic was conducted by Sweeney and Haney (1992), who examined the magnitude of racial bias exhibited by White jurors against Black defendants in sentencing decisions using 19 distinguishable effects from 14 studies.”
• Race and the decision making of juries (2007, background): “For example, Sweeney and Haney (1992) examined 14 studies with over 2,800 participants and determined that White mock jurors were indeed harsher in their sentencing recommendations for Black vs. White defendants.”
• Support for Harsh Criminal Sanctions and Criminal Justice Beliefs: A Social Dominance Perspective (2006, background): “, the wealthy, majority ethnic/racial groups), everything else being equal (for extensive evidence supporting this claim, see Baldus et al., 1990; Gross and Mauro 1989; Sidanius and Pratto 1999; Sweeny and Haney 1992).”
• Effects of Victim and Defendant Race on Jurors' Decisions in Child Sexual Abuse Cases1 (2004, background): “In a variety of legal decision-making tasks, mock jurors have been found to favor White defendants, relative to Black defendants (e.g., Sweeney & Haney, 1992).”
• The Unbearable Accuracy of Stereotypes (2009, background): “65 .03 Sweeney and Haney (1992) Does race bias sentencing?”
• Teacher Expectations and Self-Fulfilling Prophecies: Knowns and Unknowns, Resolved and Unresolved Controversies (2005, background): “…with meta-analyses showing that biasing effects of stereotypes on person perception judgments tend to be quite small, typically averaging to an r of about .1 (Davison & Burke, 2000; Kunda & Thagard, 1996; Mazella & Feingold, 1994; Sweeney & Haney, 1992; Swim, Borgida, Maruyama, & Myers, 1989).”
• Black Neighbors, Higher Crime? The Role of Racial Stereotypes in Evaluations of Neighborhood Crime1 (2001, background): “Neighborhood Crime 723 harsher judgments of guilt and punishment than white defendants in otherwise identical cases (Sweeney and Haney 1992; Rector, Bagby, and Nicholson 1993).”