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Peer-reviewed and professional legal writing by Dr. Kerry L. Shipman.

The Reasonable Black Person Standard in Criminal Law: Impartiality, Justice and the Social Sciences

Southern Journal of Policy and Justice, Vol. 13 (2019), pp. 75–92

This article examines whether the traditional reasonable-person standard can operate as genuinely neutral when Black Americans and white Americans may experience law enforcement, suspicion and public authority differently.

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