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University of Michigan Press A Penchant for Prejudice: Unraveling Bias in Judicial Decision Making

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A Penchant for Prejudice combines a detailed empirical study of the decision-making practices of judges with a sophisticated theoretical argument which exposes contemporary myths about judging and suggests methods of incorporating the inevitable bias that is detected in this and other studies. Based on a unique study of the decisions of Social Security judges, the book challenges the meaning of judicial impartiality. Linda G. Mills finds that, in practice, bias is a consistent dimension of what is considered impartial decision-making. The results reveal that impartiality as the legal system now defines it, is itself a form of bias, and that a historically and contextually sensitive definition of bias, one which takes account of the communities and cultures that come to be judged in the legal system, must overcome the modern dualistic notion of imparitality as the exclusion of bias in order to respond to needs of the diversity of applicants and the judges who adjudicate their claims. According to Mills, the judicial bias she found reflected in her study seems not only to essentialize and stereotype applicants but also prevents judges from engaging vulnerable claimants in a way that the legal process positively demands.A Penchant for Prejudice will be of interest to students and scholars of law, judicial decisionmaking, and discrimination.Linda G. Mills is Assistant Professor of Social Welfare and Law, University of California, Los Angeles.

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Brand: University of Michigan Press
Format: hardcover
ASIN: 0472109502
Category: Books > Subjects > Business, Finance & Law > Law
Domain: Amazon UK
Release Date: 04 October 1999
Listed Since: 13 February 2007

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