Perspective
Jan. 1, 2010
Punitive White Men
Hadar Aviram of UC Hastings College of Law says recent empirical research suggests that closer attention be paid to white male jurors.
By Hadar Aviram
The American jury system is fraught with the complex and delicate challenges of demographic representation. Our complicated heritage of racial discrimination, and its intrinsic connection to issues of criminal justice, has drawn the attention of the Supreme Court, on numerous occasions, to the issue of minority presence on the jury, both in the venire and on the final panel. Taylor v. Louisiana (1975) and its progeny guaranteed that population group...For only $95 a month (the price of 2 article purchases)
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