Does Unconscious Racial Bias Affect Trial Judges

By J. Rachlinski, Sheri L. Johnson, Andrew J. Wistrich, C. Guthrie. 2009

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Give Me Convenience and Give Her Death: Who Should Decide What Uses of NLP are Appropriate, and on What Basis? (2020, background): “No details are provided of the presiding court officials and their demographics, despite there being ample evidence of demographic bias in legal decision-making in other countries (Schanzenbach, 2005; Rachlinski et al., 2008; Yourstone et al., 2008).”
This Thing Called Fairness (2019, background): “Given research showing that judges decision making can be affected by inappropriate factors [123], some suggest risk assessment as a tool to limit such bias.”
Understanding Implicit Bias: What Educators Should Know. (2016, background): “Besides its vastness, System 1 cognitive pro cessing is also notable because it helps us understand that many judges.(6) Indeed, educators are also susceptible to the influence of these unconscious biases.”
Let My People Go: Ethnic In‐Group Bias in Judicial Decisions—Evidence from a Randomized Natural Experiment (2010, unknown): “22 It should be noted that another approach to uncovering judicial biases has been recently offered by Rachlinski et al. (2009), by directly testing for implicit racial bias and estimating its effect on simulated legal situations.”
Disparate Interactions: An Algorithm-in-the-Loop Analysis of Fairness in Risk Assessments (2019, background): “Studies have shown that judges harbor implicit biases and that racial disparities in incarceration rates are due in part to di � erential judicial decisions across race [1, 54].”
Emotion and the Law (2012, background): “This work has important implications for a range of legal decision makers (see, e.g., Rachlinski et al. 2009, discussing how judges’ implicit biases might be ameliorated; Haney 2005, pp. 189–209, discussing the role of the capital system in exacerbating or ameliorating “empathic divides” based on…”
HOW JUDGES THINK ABOUT RACIAL DISPARITIES: SITUATIONAL DECISION‐MAKING IN THE CRIMINAL JUSTICE SYSTEM* (2016, background): “More recently, psychological research, through the administration of implicit bias tests and hypothetical vignettes to practicing judges, has linked judges’ implicit biases to their sentencing of hypothetical defendants (Rachlinski et al., 2009).”
Reassessing and Redirecting Research on Race and Sentencing (2013, methodology): “One recent example of the kind of experimental study that represents a good supplement to existing efforts to detect racial discrimination is Rachlinski et al.’s (2009) study of unconscious racial bias among trial judges.”
Anthropomorphism as Cognitive Bias (2017, background): “…of social biases has been shown in hiring decisions (Bertrand and Mullainathan 2004) including hiring by scientists (Moss-Racusin et al. 2012), medical decision making (Green et al. 2007), and the judicial process (Mitchell et al. 2005; Banks, Eberhardt, and Ross 2006; Rachlinski et al. 2009).”