Reducing Bias for Judges. Review of Enhancing Justice: Reducing Bias, by Sarah E. Redfield (ed.)

Authors

• Victoria A. Knoche

Date of this Version

2020

Document Type

Article

Citation

Court Review - Volume 56

Comments

Used by permission.

Abstract

The book Enhancing Justice: Reducing Bias focuses on bias in the justice system—particularly the concept of implicit bias and its role in decision making. Aimed primarily at judges and, to a lesser extent, other legal actors such as prosecutors and jurors, “[t]his book helps explain how so many who pride themselves on being fair can be part of a system that is so widely seen as unfair by those who have historically been the victims of bias and prejudice, as well as by others” (p. viii). In this review, I reflect on the degree to which this goal is achieved and offer suggestions to potentially enhance the information presented and the impact of the book, including widening the readership, covering a variety of biases, and reorganization.