What does the future of justice look like to you? While we all have grand hopes and expectations of what justice should be, justice can be as simple as accessibility to a courtroom. In California, accessing the justice system is evolving–now it is as simple as turning on your electronic device. Instigated by the pandemic, […]
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Algorithmic Injustice
Algorithms in the justice system started off as a noble solution to a serious problem: the bias of judges. There are two distinct ways that judges can be biased — targeted bias, such as sexist and racist beliefs, and cognitive bias, ways in which our mental circuitry fails to work logically (such as how judges […]