Cognitive-science bias insights demand granular institutional examination to be useful

Evidence

For the insights from the cognitive sciences to be useful in identifying behavior and policies that are contributing to racialand ethnicity-based inequities in the CJS, a granular examination of systems is required. We are engaged in work with stakeholders in the CJS in several cities with the goal of subjecting this hypothesis to empirical study. From our work over the past five years, we have anecdotal reports for illustrative purposes. We have worked with over a dozen district attorneys’ offices, in some instances over the course of several years with focus groups, multiday workshops, surveys, and intensive immersion with their trainers; in other instances, we provide a single mandatory presentation for the office. Below, I describe how we tailor the research to the particular stakeholders’ work and what policy and practice changes have emerged. — Joseph Avery, Jim Sidanius, Joel Cooper, Gregory Davis, Amanda N., Bias in the Law, 1377

Categorization

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