Business Discussion: Stereotypes and the Administration of Justice

The Department of Business Management invites you to a discussion about Stereotypes and the Administration of Justice with Rajiv Sethi and Dan O’Flaherty

Stereotypes play a pervasive role in the administration of justice, influencing police stops and searches, the use of force, bail and sentencing decisions, juror behavior and selection, felony disenfranchisement, and attitudes towards mass incarceration. We shall describe some of these effects, and discuss implications for witness cooperation, homicide clearance rates, and rates of murder victimization. The talk will be based on our book Shadows of Doubt: Stereotypes, Crime, and the Pursuit of Justice (Harvard University Press, 2019) as well as ongoing research with Pepe Montiel Olea of Columbia University.

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Speakers
Rajiv Sethi is a Professor of Economics at Barnard College, Columbia University and an External Professor at the Santa Fe Institute. He is currently a Joy Foundation Fellow at the Radcliffe Institute for Advanced Study at Harvard University, and has previously held visiting positions at Microsoft Research in New York City and the Institute for Advanced Study in Princeton. He has served on the editorial boards of the American Economic Review and Economics and Philosophy, and is a founding associate editor of Collective Intelligence.

Brendan (“Dan”) O’Flaherty is a Professor of Economics at Columbia University who studies race, crime, homelessness, and urban economics generally. He has been acting CFO for the city of Newark, an aide to the mayor of that city, and a consultant to the Newark Police Department on the optimal arrangement of duty tours.

If you have any questions, contact Professor Brett Whysel of the Department of Business Management at bwhysel@bmcc.cuny.edu.

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