Total Credits: 1.5 CLE, 1.5 Criminal Law Specialization, 0.5 Ethics
Racial disparities exist at “virtually every point of criminal justice process,” and the effects of implicit racial bias manifest “in the discretionary decision making of criminal justice system actors,” including judges, prosecutors, public defenders and even jurors. See https://www.jrsa.org/pubs/factsheets/jrsa-factsheet-implicitracial-bias.pdf. This session examines the existence of implicit bias within the criminal justice process, explains how such bias affects persons of color disparately, and provides practitioners with tools to recognize and counterbalance its effects.
What You’ll Learn:
1. An understanding of how implicit bias affects one’s decision-making process
2. The existence and effect of implicit bias on persons of color subject to the criminal justice system
3. Ways to combat one’s own implicit bias as a legal practitioner
Presented by: Council for Minorities and Women in the Law Arizona State University Sandra Day O’Connor College of Law’s Academy for Justice
Chairs:
Charles W Brown Jr, Davis Miles MacGuire Gardner PLLC
Kimberly Nye, Arizona Attorney General’s Office
Faculty:
Professor Kristin Nicole Henning, Georgetown Law, Blume Professor of Law and Director of the Juvenile Justice Clinic and Initiative
f32-implicit-bias-criminal-justice-system.pdf (7 MB) | 45 Pages | Available after Purchase |
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