The Administration of Blind Justice: Wrongdoer Justice Institutions and Racial Predisposition

As this year has actually shown so clearly, racial predisposition in criminal justice has the power to misshape decision making and produce unjustified and unfair outcomes in a context where liberty, lives, and futures are at stake.

This panel combines national experts on racial predisposition in criminal justice institutions to talk about:

1) how institutional racial predisposition varies from specific racial bias;-LRB- .2) how racial predisposition manifests in criminal justice institutions (e.g., authorities departments, courts, the bar);-LRB- .3) the reasons for such bias;-LRB- .4) institutional mechanisms or reforms that could alleviate, decrease, and/or remove racial bias.

Panelists:
Matthew Clair, Assistant Professor of Sociology, Stanford University
Phillip Atiba Goff, Teacher of African American Researches and Psychology, Yale University; Co-founder and CEO, Center for Policing Equity
Rahsaan Hall, Director of the Racial Justice Program, ACLU Massachusetts.

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