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  • Interest convergence and the maintenance of racial advantage: The case of diversity in higher education JOURNAL OF SOCIAL ISSUES Starck, J. G., Hurd, K., Perez, M. J., Marshburn, C. K. 2024

    View details for DOI 10.1111/josi.12606

    View details for Web of Science ID 001197250400001

  • Is your own team against you? Implicit bias and interpersonal regard in criminal defense JOURNAL OF SOCIAL PSYCHOLOGY Avery, J. J., Starck, J., Zhong, Y., Avery, J. D., Cooper, J. 2020: 543-559

    Abstract

    Racial disparities in conviction and incarceration have been lamentable features of legal systems for a long time. Research has addressed the attitudes and decisions of police, prosecutors, jurors, and judges in contributing to these disparities, but very little attention has been paid to defendants' own team members-i.e., criminal defense attorneys. Researchers have specifically identified this as a "scholarly gap". To address this, we conducted an empirical study of criminal defense attorneys practicing in forty-three U.S. states (N = 327). The attorneys completed both an implicit measure designed to capture racial bias (a race Implicit Association Test) and an explicit measure designed to capture interpersonal regard for clients. The results provided support for longstanding, but previously speculative, assertions of bias in criminal defense.

    View details for DOI 10.1080/00224545.2020.1845593

    View details for Web of Science ID 000596735400001

    View details for PubMedID 33252317