Stereotypes and the Administration of Justice

O'Flaherty, Brendan; Sethi, Rajiv

doi:10.2139/ssrn.3808745

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Stereotypes and the Administration of Justice

In Ashwini Deshpande, editor, Handbook on Economics of Discrimination and Affirmative Action, Springer, 2023

36 Pages Posted: 22 Mar 2021 Last revised: 25 Jul 2022

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Brendan O'Flaherty

Columbia University, Graduate School of Arts and Sciences, Department of Economics

Rajiv Sethi

Barnard College, Columbia University; Santa Fe Institute

Date Written: March 20, 2021

Abstract

Stereotypes play a pervasive role in the administration of justice, influencing police stops and searches, the use of force, bail and sentencing decisions, juror behavior and selection, felony disenfranchisement, and attitudes towards mass incarceration. We provide a selective survey of the literature on stereotypes and criminal justice, and discuss implications for witness cooperation, homicide clearance rates, and rates of murder victimization.

Keywords: Stereotypes, Policing, Justice

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O'Flaherty, Brendan and Sethi, Rajiv, Stereotypes and the Administration of Justice (March 20, 2021). In Ashwini Deshpande, editor, Handbook on Economics of Discrimination and Affirmative Action, Springer, 2023, Available at SSRN: https://ssrn.com/abstract=3808745 or http://dx.doi.org/10.2139/ssrn.3808745