This paper proposes a test of racial bias in capital sentencing based upon patterns of judicial errors in lower courts … that of letting a guilty defendant free. We define racial bias as a situation where the relative weight on the two types of … between 1973 and 1995. We find robust evidence of bias against minority defendants who killed white victims: in Direct Appeal …

theoretical definition of bias in criminal records in terms of measurement error. It then seeks to provide empirical estimates of … racial bias in official arrest records for a broad swath of offenses.Method: I use official arrest and self-reported crime …. The analysis finds relatively little evidence of differential reporting that would bias my estimates upwards, with the …

increasing diversity on the bench and in the legal profession, outsider decision makers' membership of the jurisprudential … liable to attack for bias in a way that decisions made by insiders simply are not. The argument is illustrated by a review of … a number of challenges made on the ground of 'bias' or recusal motions to judges whose failure to match the white Anglo …

, tort law, judicial decision making Policy-makers, judges, prosecutors, and lawyers The Author Goran Dominioni holds a PhD …

The paper presents the economic literature on gender bias, illustrating the underpinnings in the psychology of bias and … on methods to contrast bias presenting evidence (where it exists) of their effectiveness. The second part of the paper … presents results of an experiment in revealing unconscious bias. …