Research on jury diversity has focused almost exclusively on Black diversity

Evidence

Future research on jury deliberations could explore a variety of different avenues. First, Hunt (2017) has suggested studying a broader range of racial/ ethnic groups and how racial bias in mock jury decisions might impact different groups in fundamentally different ways. The same critique could be made for jury diversity studies. Even more so, each racial/ethnic group has different associations with, and views on, the CJS (Overby et al., 2005; Weitzer & Tuch, 2005). Additionally, different minority groups experience different types of stigmatization in terms of their association with crime (e.g., Correll et al., 2002). Therefore, each racial/ethnic group may bring different experiences to the jury room when it comes to deliberation. Very little research has been performed examining the impact of racial/ethnic diversity other than Black diversity (cf. Perez, et al, 1993), and even less is known about what impact different minority groups deliberating with each other might have on the quality of jury deliberations. — Joseph Avery, Jim Sidanius, Joel Cooper, Gregory Davis, Amanda N., Bias in the Law, 912

Categorization

• QUESTION: Worth chasing: what little data exists on non-Black minority diversity effects, and how do different groups’ distinct crime-stigma associations shape deliberation?