Race and the decision making of juries

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Do they matter? A meta-analytic investigation of individual characteristics and guilt judgments. (2014, background): “Scholars have argued that racism in its modern form tends to be less overt and more likely to manifest itself when race is not a salient factor in the decision context (Sommers, 2007; Sommers & Ellsworth, 2001).”
Reassessing and Redirecting Research on Race and Sentencing (2013, methodology): “Laboratory experiments of sanctioning practices were at one time quite prominent as a tool for understanding how defendant (and other) attributes shaped punishment assessments, and such work remains vibrant in studies of mock juries (Sommers, 2007; Sweeney & Haney, 1992).”