Although diversity has made its way into the court system leadership, race and ethnicity still seem to play a vital role in the outcome. Racial discrimination does not present itself as it did fifty years ago, but yet presents itself in a more secretive manner that results in racially discriminatory outcomes. Two studies that have been conducted within the past twenty years yielded two very significant findings. First, that, unlike previous studies, this one accounted for crimes committed and the defendant’s criminal history (Kansal & Mauer, 2005, p. 1). Secondly, rather than assuming racial bias exists in every situation, the study dared to ask in what way the racial bias manifests itself and when (Kansal & Mauer, 2005, p. 1). Through interactive analysis sentencing results heeded that minorities, both young Black and Latinos, were found to be sentenced more harshly than other defendants, and also when victims were white (Kansal & Mauer, 2005,
Although diversity has made its way into the court system leadership, race and ethnicity still seem to play a vital role in the outcome. Racial discrimination does not present itself as it did fifty years ago, but yet presents itself in a more secretive manner that results in racially discriminatory outcomes. Two studies that have been conducted within the past twenty years yielded two very significant findings. First, that, unlike previous studies, this one accounted for crimes committed and the defendant’s criminal history (Kansal & Mauer, 2005, p. 1). Secondly, rather than assuming racial bias exists in every situation, the study dared to ask in what way the racial bias manifests itself and when (Kansal & Mauer, 2005, p. 1). Through interactive analysis sentencing results heeded that minorities, both young Black and Latinos, were found to be sentenced more harshly than other defendants, and also when victims were white (Kansal & Mauer, 2005,