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One step toward making criminal justice less biased

  • Written by Shima Baughman, Professor of Criminal Law, University of Utah
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Many experts and politicians believe there is, as Hillary Clinton has said repeatedly, “systematic racism throughout the criminal justice system.”

As recently as the first presidential debate, Hillary Clinton made this point a hallmark of her criminal justice agenda. She claimed that...

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