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Judicial Notebook: Jury selection in the Black Lives Matter era
Does the practice of excluding prospective jurors based on Black Lives Matter support threaten jury representativeness and impartiality?
How immigration policies are harming mental health
Restrictive policies heighten fear of deportation and stress in immigrant communities.
Judicial notebook: When it comes to racial justice issues, recent Supreme Court rulings are inconsistent
Race-conscious decision-making is still permissible when it comes to determining access to the ballot but not to higher education.
Judicial notebook: Stereotypes about people and communities of color may be limiting Fourth Amendment protections
Psychologists interested in addressing police officer bias should look beyond changing individual officers’ attitudes.
Judicial notebook: Racial stereotyping and misdiagnosis of child abuse
Stereotypes that link race and child abuse may cause medical practitioners to suspect abuse when it hasn’t occurred, and to miss it when it has.
Action teaching in a ‘Children, Psychology and Law’ course
Training students to use psychological theories and research for advocacy.
Judicial notebook: How video may influence jurors' decisions about police defendants
Video recording technology appears to be leading the way to a new era of police accountability.
Judicial notebook: Supreme Court fails to use science in key decision
What special considerations should the criminal justice system take when interacting with vulnerable individuals?
Judicial notebook: Does partisan gerrymandering disenfranchise voters?
Gerrymandering laws may undermine voter turnout and violate the 14th Amendment.
Judicial notebook: Should registered sex offenders be banned from social media?
Restricting sex offenders’ access to social media may increase their societal exclusion, undermining efforts to reintegrate them into society.
Stereotype Threat and Racial Differences in Citizens' Experiences of Police Encounters [PDF]
This study investigated how cultural stereotypes that depict Blacks as criminals affect the way Blacks experience encounters with police officers, expecting that such encounters induce Blacks to feel stereotype threat (i.e., concern about being judged and treated unfairly by police because of the stereotype).
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Judicial notebook: The questionable legality of 'upskirting'
The legal interpretation of privacy expectations may affect public attitudes toward sexual aggression and violence against women.
Judicial notebook: How ‘mistake-of-law’ traffic stops may hurt minorities
The U.S. Supreme Court must determine whether an officer’s reasonable mistaken belief about the law can form the basis for reasonable suspicion, which is required to ensure that traffic stops and subsequent searches and seizures do not violate individuals’ Fourth Amendment rights
Judicial notebook: Deception in the interrogation room
The government may not coerce confessions, as provided by the Fifth Amendment privilege against self-incrimination and the due-process prohibition against admitting involuntary confessions into court.
Judicial notebook: The criminalization of ‘revenge porn’
Many laws do not protect those who either consented to be recorded or recorded sexually explicit images themselves but, in either case, did not consent to the distribution of those images.
