Examining the prison sentences given by mock jurors of different ethnicities and whether the sentence varies depending on the ethnicity of the offenders.
Introduction Racial bias in both the criminal justice system and in lay judgements has been a prevalent finding in psychological and criminal law research. In particular, through analyzing murder cases in Georgia (USA), Baldus, Pulaski, and Woodworth (1983) found that defendants were 1.1 times more likely to receive the death penalty if they were black […]