Counterintuitive race effects in legal and nonlegal contexts.

L Smalarz, RE Eerdmans, ML Lawrence… - Law and human …, 2023 - psycnet.apa.org
Objective: Despite documented racial disparities in all facets of the criminal justice system,
recent laboratory attempts to investigate racial bias in legal settings have produced null …

Challenges to the Contemporary Death Penalty in the United States

P Kaplan - Annual Review of Law and Social Science, 2024 - annualreviews.org
This review focuses on empirical research about contemporary challenges to the death
penalty in the United States. Challenges are factors that obstruct capital punishment …

The influence of race on jurors' perceptions of lethal police use of force.

L Ewanation, EM Maeder - Law and human behavior, 2023 - psycnet.apa.org
Objective: Many highly publicized police use-of-force encounters have recently occurred in
the United States. This project primarily explored whether officer, juror, or victim race affects …

A Negligence Claim for Rape

WJ Cardi, M Chamallas - Tex. L. Rev., 2022 - HeinOnline
In May 2021, the American Law Institute approved the Restatement (Third) of Torts:
Intentional Torts to Persons, a project on which one of us served as Associate Reporter and …

An examination of the effects of mental disorders as mitigating factors on capital sentencing outcomes

LN Miley, E Heiss‐Moses, JK Cochran… - … Sciences & the Law, 2020 - Wiley Online Library
Mentally ill and emotionally disturbed offenders comprise a significant component of those
whose criminal conduct has swept them into the criminal justice system, including a subset …

Qualitative information in undergraduate admissions: A pilot study of letters of recommendation

J Rothstein - Economics of Education Review, 2022 - Elsevier
A subset of undergraduate applicants to the University of California, Berkeley were invited to
submit letters of recommendation as part of their applications. I use scraped text of the …

Let's (not) talk about race: comparing mock jurors' verdicts and deliberation content in a case of lethal police use of force with a White or Indigenous victim

L Ewanation, EM Maeder - Psychology, Crime & Law, 2024 - Taylor & Francis
Several lethal police use of force (UoF) encounters have recently occurred across North
America, sparking public debate about officer accountability. This project investigated what …

Same crime: Different punishment? Investigating sentencing disparities between Irish and non-Irish nationals in the Irish criminal justice system

AM Brandon, M O'Connell - The British Journal of Criminology, 2018 - academic.oup.com
Ireland's economic growth from the late 1990s prompted sustained and diverse inward
migration, resulting in substantial changes in the population and reshaping the social and …

Black lives matter and the call for death penalty abolition

M Cholbi, A Madva - Ethics, 2018 - journals.uchicago.edu
The Black Lives Matter movement has called for the abolition of capital punishment in
response to what it calls “the war against Black people” and “Black communities.” This article …

Unmasking the American death penalty debate: Race, context, and citizens' willingness to execute

MD Ramirez - Social Science Quarterly, 2021 - Wiley Online Library
Research on public attitudes toward the death penalty has yet to systematically examine the
role of race in the context of offense‐related attributes. This study uses a conjoint experiment …