Robert J. Smith

Essay

Systemic Implicit Bias

Legal discourse on implicit bias has changed the way scholars and citizens think about race in the justice system. Ever-growing scholarship, much of it empirical, has identified, confronted, and sought to address how implicit bias operates in nearly every criminal justice context— especially in policing, prosecuting, judging, and juror decision-making. This focus on racially fraught legal processes, and the subsequent...

Jan 31, 2017