Judges favor plaintiffs of their own ethnicity, amplified by local terrorism

Evidence

Grossman et al. (2016) analyzed panel decisions of appellate court judges, instead of solo bench decisions of individual judges as in Shayo and Zussman (2011), and found that appeal outcomes of Jewish defendants were independent of the ethnic composition of the panel of judges, but that Arab defendants received more lenient punishment when the panel included at least one Arab judge. — Joseph Avery, Jim Sidanius, Joel Cooper, Gregory Davis, Amanda N., Bias in the Law, 763 (#expands, via linked claim)

Categorization

• XREF: connects to: Judges show positive in-group bias favoring litigants of their own race — Joseph Avery, Jim Sidanius, Joel Cooper, Gregory Davis, Amanda N., Bias in the Law: A Definitive Look at…, 763; Terrorism fear drives publics to accept erosion of democratic judicial processes — John T. Jost and Jim Sidanius, Political Psychology, 4172; Judges’ personal attitudes systematically shape their case votes. — G. Alan Tarr, Judicial Process and Judicial…, 2579

Broader Connections

• Judges show positive in-group bias favoring litigants of their own race #expands (0.95) — Joseph Avery, Jim Sidanius, Joel Cooper, Gregory Davis, Amanda N., Bias in the Law, 763