Selection of articles about racism and other discrimination in the criminal justice system. From Professor Susan Mandiberg's June 16, 2020 talk, Criminal Law-Related Doctrines That Enable Racial Discrimination.
Jody D. Armour, Where Bias Lives in the Criminal Law and Its Processes: How Judges and Jurors Socially Construct Black Criminals, 45 Am. J. Crim. L. 203 (2018)
Joshua Correll, et. al., The Police Officer's Dilemma: A Decade of Research on Racial Bias in the Decision to Shoot, 8 Social & Personality Psych. Compass 201 (2014)
Miranda and/or Search & Seizure
Janet E. Ainsworth, In A Different Register: The Pragmatics of Powerlessness in Police Interrogation, 103 Yale L.J. 259 (1993)
Devon W. Carbado, (E)racing the Fourth Amendment, 100 Mich. L. Rev. 946 (2002)
Richard Delgado, Shadowboxing: An Essay on Power, 77 Cornell L. Rev. 813 (1992)
Floralynn Einesman, Confessions and Culture: The Interaction of Miranda and Diversity, 90 J. Crim. L. & Criminology 1 (1999)
David A. Harris, Factors for Reasonable Suspicion: When Black and Poor Means Stopped and Frisked, 69 Ind. L.J. 659 (1994)
Tracey Maclin & Maria Savarese, Martin Luther King, Jr. and Pretext Stops (and Arrests): Reflections on How Far We Have Not Come Fifty Years Later, 49 U. Mem. L. Rev. 43 (2018)
Tracey Maclin, "Voluntary" Interviews and Airport Searches of Middle Eastern Men: The Fourth Amendment in a Time of Terror, 73 Miss. L. J. 471 (2003) (HeinOnline; alternate access)
Susan F. Mandiberg, Reasonable Officers vs. Reasonable Lay Persons in the Supreme Court's Miranda and Fourth Amendment Cases, 14 Lewis & Clark L. Rev. 1481 (2010)
Janice Nadler, No Need to Shout: Bus Sweeps and the Psychology of Coercion, 2002 Sup. Ct. Rev. 153 (2002)
Marcy Strauss, Reconstructing Consent, 92 J. Crim. L. & Criminology 211 (2002)
Note, Striking a Sincere Balance: A Reasonable Black Person Standard for "Location Plus Evasion" Terry Stops, 6 Mich. J. Race & L. 355 (2001) [Mia Carpiniello]
Symposium: The Permissibility of Race or Ethnicity as a Factor in Assessing the Reasonableness of a Search or Seizure, 73 Miss. L. J. 73, no. 2 (2003)
Criminal Law
Jody D. Armour, Race Ipsa Loquitur: Of Reasonable Racists, Intelligent Bayesians, and Involuntary Negrophobes, 46 Stan. L. Rev. 781 (1994)
Dolores A. Donovan & Stephanie M. Wildman, Is the Reasonable Man Obsolete? A Critical Perspective on Self-Defense and Provocation, 14 Loy. L.A. L. Rev. 435 (1980-1981)
L. Song Richardson & Phillip Atiba Goff, Self-Defense and the Suspicion Heuristic, 98 Iowa L. Rev. 293 (2012)
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