Bias in the Justice and Legal Systems

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Introduction

• Bias in the Justice and Legal Systems: Cumulative Disadvantage as a Framework for Understanding
  Lucy A. Guarnera, Jennifer T. Perillo, and Kyle C. Scherr

Investigation, Evaluation, and Pretrial Decision-Making

• Implicit Bias Training for Police: Evaluating Impacts on Enforcement Disparities
  Robert E. Worden, Cynthia J. Najdowski, Sarah J. McLean, Kenan M. Worden, Nicholas Corsaro, Hannah Cochran, and Robin S. Engel
• Reducing Biases in the Criminal Legal System: A Perspective From Expected Utility
  Janice L. Burke, Justice Healy, and Yueran Yang
• The Miranda Penalty: Inferring Guilt From Suspects’ Silence
  Megan L. Lawrence, Emma R. Saiter, Rose E. Eerdmans, and Laura Smalarz
• Suspect Race Affects Defense Attorney Evaluations of Preidentification Evidence
  Jacqueline Katzman and Margaret Bull Kovera
• Predictive Bias in Pretrial Risk Assessment: Application of the Public Safety Assessment in a Native American Population
  Samantha A. Zottola, Kamiya Stewart, Violette Cloud, Liz Hassett, and Sarah L. Desmarais
• The Structured Assessment of Violence Risk in Youth Demonstrates Measurement Invariance Between Black and White Justice-Referred Youths
  Jonathan R. Cohn, Rachael T. Perrault, David C. Cicero, and Gina M. Vincent
• Disparate Impact of Risk Assessment Instruments: A Systematic Review
  Spencer G. Lawson, Emma L. Narkewicz, and Gina M. Vincent

Trial, Postconviction, and Exoneration

• Inequality Threat Increases Laypeople’s, but Not Judges’, Acceptance of Algorithmic Decision Making in Court
  Jonas Ludwig, Paul-Michael Heineck, Marie-Theres Hess, Eleni Kremeti, Max Tauschhuber, Eric Hilgendorf, and Roland Deutsch
• Does Engaging in Reason Elaboration Mitigate Bias in Mock Jurors’ Evaluations of Confession Evidence?
  Alexander D. Perry, Amelia Mindthoff, Skye A. Woestehoff, and Christian A. Meissner
• An Audit Study of Barriers to Mental Health Treatment for Wrongly Incarcerated People
  Jeff Kukucka, Kateryn Reyes-Fuentes, and Christina M. Dardis
• Lived Experiences of Bias in Compensation and Reintegration Associated With False Admissions of Guilt
  Mary Catlin, Talley Bettens, Allison D. Redlich, and Kyle C. Scherr

Clinical Forensic Psychology

• Confirmatory Information Seeking Is Robust in Psychologists’ Diagnostic Reasoning
  Tess M. S. Neal, Nina MacLean, Robert D. Morgan, and Daniel C. Murrie
• Degrees of Freedom as a Breeding Ground for Biases—A Threat to Forensic Practice
  Aileen Oeberst and Verena Oberlader
• Do Risk Measure Scores and Diagnoses Predict Evaluator Opinions in Sexually Violent Predator Cases? It Depends on the Evaluator
  Marcus T. Boccaccini, Daniel C. Murrie, and Paige B. Harris
• Are Forensic Evaluators More Likely to Conclude That Black or White Defendants Are Malingering?
  Lucy A. Guarnera, Daniel C. Murrie, Brett O. Gardner, and Scott D. Bender

Civil Litigation and Beyond

• Suppressing Myside Bias in Civil Litigation
  Mihael A. Jeklic
• Regional Gender Bias and Year Predict Gender Representation on Civil Trial Teams
  Hannah J. Phalen, Megan L. Lawrence, Kristen L. Gittings, Emily N. Line, Sara N. Thomas, Rose E. Eerdmans, Taylor C. Bettis, John C. Campbell, and Jessica M. Salerno
• Essentialism and the Criminal Legal System
  Madeleine Millar, Colleen M. Berryessa, Cynthia Willis-Esqueda, Jason A. Cantone, Deborah Goldfarb, Melissa de Vel-Palumbo, Anthony D. Perillo, Terrill O. Taylor, and Laurie T. Becker