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Antiracism, Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion Resources

Criminal Law

Books

  1. The New Jim Crow : Mass Incarceration in the Age of Colorblindness / by , NY Michelle Alexander. -  HV9950 .A449 2020 in Row 5A
  2. The Color of Justice : Race, Ethnicity, and  Crime in America / by Samuel Walker, Cassia Spohn, and Miriam De Lone. - Call Number: HV9950 .W341 2012 in Row 5A
  3. Privilege and Punishment : How Race and Class Matter in Criminal Court / by Matthew Clair. - Call Number: HV9956 .B6 C53 2020 in Row 5A
  4. Plea Bargaining Made Real / by Steven P. Grossman. - Call Number: KF9654 .G76 2021 in Row 70B
  5. Confronting Underground Justice : Reinventing Plea Bargaining for Effective Criminal Justice Reform / by William R. Kelly with Robert Pitman – Call Number: KF9654 .K44 2018 in Row 70B.
  6. The Evolution of the Juvenile Court by Barry C. Feld - Call Number: KF9794 .F44 2017 in Row 70B
  7. The Rise of Big Data Policing : Surveillance, Race, and the Future of Law Enforcement / by Andrew Guthrie Ferguson. - Call Number: HV8141 .F47 2017 in Row 4B

eBooks

  1.  Race, Ethnicity and Law by Mathieu Deflem 
  2.  The Rage of Innocence : How America Criminalizes Black Youth 

Articles

  1. Ahmaud Arbery, Reckless Racism and Hate Crimes: Recklessness as Hate Crime Enhancement 
  2. Antiracism in Action
  3. Beyond Bias: Re-Imagining the Terms of "Ethical AI" in Criminal Law 
  4. Bias, Subjectivity, and Wrongful Convictions
  5. The Central Park Five, the Scottsboro Boys, and the Myth of the Bestial Black Man
  6. The Codification of Racism: Blacks, Criminal Sentencing, and the Legacy of Slavery in Georgia
  7. DNA, Racial Disparities, and Biases in Criminal Justice: Searching for Solutions The Advancement of Evidentiary Procedures and Policies
  8. From Ladies First to Asking for it: Benevolent Sexism in the Maintenance of Rape Culture
  9. Implicit Bias and Immigration Courts ( Fatma E. Marouf)
  10. Implicit Racial Bias and Racial Anxiety: Implications for Stops and Frisks Symposium: Terry at Fifty
  11. Managing Our Blind Spot: The Role of Bias in the School-to-Prison Pipeline
  12. Present Bias and Criminal Law 
  13. Race and Class: A Randomized Experiment with Prosecutors
  14. Reimagining Criminal Prosecution: Toward a Color-Conscious Professional Ethic for Prosecutors
  15. Sex-Bias Topics in the Criminal Law Course: A Survey of Criminal Law Professors
  16. Teaching Rape Law
  17. Where Bias Lives in the Criminal Law and Its Processes: How Judges and Jurors Socially Construct Black Criminals
  18. Stop and Frisk Online: Theorizing Everyday Racism in Digital Policing in the Use of Social Media for Identification of Criminal Conduct and Associations
  19. Where Bias Lives in the Criminal Law and Its Processes: How Judges and Jurors Socially Construct Black Criminals 
  20. Prosecutorial Analytics

Video Lectures

  1. Punishment, Race, and Social Bonds: A History of Law Enforcement in America.
  2. Race and Gender in the Police: Beyond the Blue Uniform

Ted Talks

  1. Truths about the US prison system - A Playlist
  2. Just Mercy: Race and the Criminal Justice System with Bryan Stevenson
  3. The problem with the U.S. bail system
  4. ​​How we can make racism a solvable problem -- and improve policing
  5. A Prosecutor's vision for a better justice system
  6. What I learned serving time for a crime I didn't commit

Evidence Law

eBooks

  1. Law and the Visible  - If you take a video of police officers beating a Black man into unconsciousness, are you a witness or a bystander? If you livestream your friends dragging the body of an unconscious woman and talking about their plans to violate her, are you an accomplice? Do bodycams and video doorbells tell the truth? Individual essays discuss the culpability of those who record violence, the history of racialized violence as it streams through police bodycams, the idea of digital images as objective or neutral, the logics of surveillance and transparency, and a defense of anonymity in the digital age.
  2. Philosophical Foundations of Evidence Law - Presents a cross-disciplinary overview of the core issues in the theory and methodology of adjudicative evidence and factfinding, assembling the major philosophical and interdisciplinary insights that define evidence theory, as related to law, in a single book. The volume presents contemporary debates on truth, knowledge, rational beliefs, proof, argumentation, explanation, coherence, probability, economics, psychology, bias, gender, and race. It covers different theoretical approaches to legal evidence, including the Bayesian approach, scenario theory, and inference to the best explanation. 
  3. The Psychological Foundations of Evidence Law - Evidence law is meant to facilitate trials that are fair, accurate, and efficient, and that encourage and protect important societal values and relationships. Evidence law regulates the form of questions lawyers may ask, filters expert testimony, requires witnesses to take oaths, and aims to give lawyers and factfinders the tools they need to assess witnesses' reliability. But without a thorough grounding in psychology, is the "common sense" of the rulemakers as they create these rules always, or even usually, correct? And when it is not, how can the rules be fixed? Addressed to those in both law and psychology, The Psychological Foundations of Evidence Law draws on the best current psychological research-based knowledge to identify and evaluate the choices implicit in the rules of evidence, and to suggest alternatives that psychology reveals as better for accomplishing the law's goals.
  4. Teaching Evidence Law: Contemporary Trends and Innovations - Teaching Evidence Law focuses on the methods used to teach a mix of abstract and practical rules, as well as the underlying skills of fact-analysis, that students need to apply the law in practice, to research it in the future and to debate its appropriateness. The chapters describe innovative ways of overcoming the many challenges of this field, addressing the expanding fields of evidence law, how to reach and accommodate new audiences with an interest in evidence, and the tools devised to meet old and new pedagogical problems in this area. Part of Routledge's series on Legal Pedagogy, this book will be of great interest to academics, post-graduate students, teachers and researchers of evidence law, as well as those with a wider interest in legal pedagogy or legal practice.

Guides

  1.  Guerrilla Guides - Teaching Evidence (guide five) -  Explores the rules as sites of contested meaning in a world of asymmetrical power relationships. We investigate some of the factors that influence the drafting and application of these rules and problematize some of the concepts upon which evidence law relies. We seek to enrich our study of these rules by introducing diverse voices that illustrate their impact, and visions that illuminate alternative approaches.

Video Lectures

  1. Public Records and Racial Disparities in Jury Selection
  2. Objection! How Evidence Law Perpetuates Racism in the Courtroom

Articles

  1. Teaching Evidence: Inference, Proof, and Diversity
  2. Implicit Stereotyping as Unfair Prejudice in Evidence Law
  3. The Color of Our Character: Confronting the Racial Character of Rule 404(b) Evidence 
  4. Racial Character Evidence in Police Killing Cases  
  5. Reorienting the Rules of Evidence
  6. Black Lives Discounted: Altering the Standard for Voir Dire and the Rules of Evidence to Better Account for Implicit Racial Biases Against Black Victims in Self-Defense Cases
  7. Blackness as Evidence
  8. Evidentiary Inequality
  9. Why Would You Say That? Addressing Systemic Injustice in the  Evidentiary Standard for Opposing Party Statements
  10. Bias on Trial: Toward an Open Discussion of Racial Stereotypes in the Courtroom
  11. The Racial Bias Exception to the General Rule that Precludes Jurors from Offering Testimony to Impeach Their Own Verdict
  12. Racial Character Evidence in Police Killing Cases  
  13. "Vegas Rule: Jury Deliberation Edition": Should the Sixth Amendment Exception for Alleged Racial Bias in Deliberations Extend to Gender?
  14. Bias on Trial: Toward an Open Discussion of Racial Stereotypes in the Courtroom
  15. DNA, Racial Disparities, and Biases in Criminal Justice: Searching for Solutions The Advancement of Evidentiary Procedures and Policies