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  title info:
    title: Unfair
    sub title: the new science of criminal injustice
  name:
    name part: Benforado, Adam.
    role:
      role term: creator
  type of resource: text
  genre: bibliography
  origin info:
    place:
      place term: nyu
    date issued: 2015
    copyright date: 2015
    edition: First edition.
    issuance: monographic
  language:
    language term: eng
  physical description:
    form: print
    extent: xx, 379 pages ; 24 cm.
  abstract: A crusading legal scholar exposes the powerful psychological forces that undermine our criminal justice system, and affect us all. Our nation is founded on the notion that the law is impartial, that legal cases are won or lost on the basis of evidence, careful reasoning and nuanced argument. But they may, in fact, turn on the temperature of the courtroom, the camera angle of a defendant's taped confession or a simple word choice or gesture during a cross-examination. In Unfair, law professor Adam Benforado shines a light on this troubling new research, showing, for example, that people with certain facial features receive longer sentences and that judges are far more likely to grant parole first thing in the morning. In fact, over the last two decades, psychologists and neuroscientists have uncovered many cognitive forces that operate beyond our conscious awareness, and Benforado argues that until we address these hidden biases head-on, the social inequality we see now will only widen, as powerful players and institutions find ways to exploit the weaknesses in our legal system. Weaving together historical examples, scientific studies and compelling court cases, from the border collie put on trial in Kentucky to the five teenagers who falsely confessed in the Central Park Jogger case, Benforado shows how our judicial processes fail to uphold our values and protect society's weakest members, convicting the innocent while letting dangerous criminals go free. With clarity and passion, he lays out the scope of the problem and proposes a wealth of reforms that could prevent injustice and help us achieve true fairness and equality before the law.
  table of contents: Investigation. The labels we live by : the victim ; Dangerous confessions : the detective ; The criminal mind : the suspect -- Adjudication. Breaking the rules : the lawyer ; In the eye of the beholder : the jury ; The corruption of memory : the eyewitness ; How to tell a lie : the expert ; Umpires of activists : the judge -- Punishment. An eye for an eye : the public ; Throwing away the key : the prisoner -- Reform. What we must overcome : the challenge ; What we can do : the future.
  note: Adam Benforado.
  note: Includes bibliographical references (pages [293]-367) and index.
  subject:
    topic: Criminal justice, Administration of
    topic: Psychological aspects
  subject:
    topic: Discrimination in criminal justice administration
    topic: Psychological aspects
  subject:
    topic: Criminal psychology
  subject:
    topic: PSYCHOLOGY
    topic: Cognitive Psychology
  subject:
    topic: LAW
    topic: Criminal Law
    topic: General
  subject:
    topic: POLITICAL SCIENCE
    topic: Public Policy
    topic: General
  classification: HV7419 .B46 2015
  classification: 364.3
  identifier: 9780770437763
  identifier: 0770437761
  identifier: 9780770437787
  identifier: 0770437788
  identifier: 9780770437770
  identifier: 2014041693
  record info:
    record content source: DLC
    record creation date: 141024
    record change date: 20170928112855.0
    record identifier: in00003607405