A Penchant for Prejudice - Unraveling Bias in Judicial Decision Making (Hardcover)

"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.

General

Imprint:	The University of Michigan Press
Country of origin:	United States
Release date:	October 1999
First published:	November 1999
Authors:	Linda G. Mills
Dimensions:	163 x 271 x 27mm (L x W x T)
Format:	Hardcover
Pages:	216
ISBN-13:	978-0-472-10950-0
Categories:	Books > Social sciences > Politics & government > Political science & theory Books > Law > Jurisprudence & general issues > Jurisprudence & philosophy of law Books > Law > Laws of other jurisdictions & general law > Civil law (general works)
LSN:	0-472-10950-2
Barcode:	9780472109500

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