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December 14, 2023
Cognitive-behavioral limitations, also known as neurodisabilities, can dramatically affect how a person performs day-to-day activities. To effectively represent and interact with people involved in the justice system, lawyers and judges must recognize
December 8, 2023
Cognitive-behavioral limitations, also known as neurodisabilities, can dramatically affect how a person performs day-to-day activities. To effectively represent and interact with people involved in the justice system, lawyers and judges must recognize
March 26, 2023
How does adding more minority and women judges affect theadministration of justice? Using a Tobit regression model andcontrolling for such factors as the sentence recommended by thePennsylvania sentencing guidelines showed that black judges handeddown longer incarceration sentences than white judges and that,although white judges did not tend to sentence black offenders anymore severely than they did white offenders, black judges did tendto sentence black offenders to longer prison terms than wh...