The Balance of Justice: Innocence, Guilt, & Race in the Evaluation of Criminal Prosecutors

• In Event: Public Opinion about Race and Violence

Brief Overview

This paper assesses what kinds of information voters use to make evaluative judgments of prosecutors. Using a survey experiment, a sample of 1,214 White Americans was exposed to a news story of a prosecutor running for re-election.

Author

• Brandon J Romero, University of Michigan