The criminal justice system is not systemically “biased” against racial minorities, a recent study concluded.
Professor Chris Ferguson, who teaches psychology at Stetson University in Florida and has clinical experience “particularly in working with offender and juvenile justice populations,” recently published a meta-analysis on this topic.
“Race, class, and criminal adjudication: Is the US criminal justice system as biased as is often assumed? A meta-analytic review,” examined the results of fifty-one studies focused on bias in criminal sentencing.
In an email to The College Fix, Ferguson wrote that a meta-analysis “can help understand what the mean study outcome is across studies, effectively smoothing out some inconsistencies between them.”