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Shadows of Doubt
Stereotypes, Crime, and the Pursuit of Justice
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Brendan O'Flaherty
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English
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2019
About this book
Crime and punishment occur under extreme uncertainty. Offenders, victims, police, judges, and jurors make high-stakes decisions with limited information under severe time pressure. With compelling stories and data on how people act and react, O’Flaherty and Sethi reveal the extent to which we rely on stereotypes as shortcuts in our decision making.
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This book is extraordinary. I cannot conceive of a more important, judicious, well-reasoned, imaginative, comprehensive contribution to the debates about criminal justice. I hope its influence will be broad, deep, and permanent. Every national, state, and municipal policymaker should not only read but study it, and every active citizen, too, should take in its penetrating analyses of the causes and consequences of mass incarceration. Shadows of Doubt takes the debate to a new level.
-- Danielle Allen, Harvard University
-- Danielle Allen, Harvard University
A gripping work full of technical virtuosity, human decency, and moral seriousness.
-- Glenn Loury, Brown University
-- Glenn Loury, Brown University
Convincing, inspiring, and galvanizing, Shadows of Doubt is a major contribution to the literature on crime, race, and the criminal justice system in the United States.
-- Samuel Bowles, Santa Fe Institute
-- Samuel Bowles, Santa Fe Institute
Shadows of Doubt is compelling and readable; its message needs to be heard and understood more widely in America, and in the world.
-- Paul Seabright, Toulouse School of Economics and Institute for Advanced Study in Toulouse
-- Paul Seabright, Toulouse School of Economics and Institute for Advanced Study in Toulouse
Shadows of Doubt is neither timid nor narrow in its approach to many of the key issues of crime and justice facing the U.S. The scope of the book is broad and in most respects it sheds new light on old problems with thoughtful analyses. While most economists are content to focus on a single topic (drugs, capital punishment, guns), O’Flaherty and Sethi employ a comprehensive approach to explaining crime.
-- Scott H. Decker Times Higher Education
-- Scott H. Decker Times Higher Education
A fantastic and sobering book.
-- Diane Coyle Enlightened Economist
-- Diane Coyle Enlightened Economist
A comprehensive argument that stereotyping infects virtually all interactions informing America’s criminal justice system…The authors also provide smart, sophisticated insights into the conditions that lead to high homicide rates and police use of lethal force…and America’s globally unmatched incarceration rate…Illuminating and constructive.
-- Publishers Weekly
-- Publishers Weekly
Exceptional…Examines our troubled, racist criminal justice system with depth, maturity, pragmatism, and focus.
-- Scott Page Crooked Timber
-- Scott Page Crooked Timber
The central thesis of Shadows of Doubt is that stereotypes cause interactions to play out in ways which make those very assumptions self-fulfilling.
-- Cate Brown RightsInfo
-- Cate Brown RightsInfo
An important contribution to the understanding of how stereotypes are implicated in the working of the criminal justice system in the United States, and how they have made an impact on social justice…Eminently readable and, yet, does not compromise the depth of analysis.
-- Vijay Raghavan Economic and Political Weekly
-- Vijay Raghavan Economic and Political Weekly
Important analysis…O’Flaherty and Sethi offer hope that by shifting public discussion and changing the minds and hearts of legislators, errant criminal justice policies just might be reformed.
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eBook published on:
April 15, 2019
eBook ISBN:
9780674240162
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352
eBook ISBN:
9780674240162
Keywords for this book
Racial profiling; Black Lives Matter; Racial disparities; Discrimination; Fear of black men; Implicit bias; Police killings
