People's opinions on whether youth who break the law should be sentenced as adults vary significantly when a single word -- black or white -- is used to describe the defendant, a new study by Stanford University's Department of Psychology has found.
Saturday, June 02, 2012
When sentencing young lawbreakers, race matters, study finds
When sentencing young lawbreakers, race matters, study finds
People's opinions on whether youth who break the law should be sentenced as adults vary significantly when a single word -- black or white -- is used to describe the defendant, a new study by Stanford University's Department of Psychology has found.
People's opinions on whether youth who break the law should be sentenced as adults vary significantly when a single word -- black or white -- is used to describe the defendant, a new study by Stanford University's Department of Psychology has found.
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Race shouldn't never matter. I don't care if the person is black white pink or purple u break the law it is what it is.
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