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burchfield96

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Research on race and jury decision making indicates that jurors are
 
  a. always more lenient toward defendants of their same race.
  b. more likely to discriminate by race when race is a prominent issue during the trial.
  c. not influenced by race when evidence in a case is strong.
  d. very unpredictable from one trial and jury to the next.

Question 2

In the aftermath of the Amado Dialog shooting, several psychologists have investigated the influence that a suspect's race might play in police decisions to shoot or not shoot. The results of these studies suggest that
 
  a. race does not influence police officers who have been trained to look past a suspect's skin color.
  b. race can influence the thought processes of police officers, but very rarely their actual behavior.
  c. police will react differently to an African-American suspect depending on their own level of racial prejudice.
  d. mere awareness of racial stereotypes is enough to influence police behavior, even if the officers do notendorse these stereotypes.



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Answer to Question 1

d

Answer to Question 2

d



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