Robert Smith, Charles Ogletree, and Johanna Wald hare recently posted a synopsis of their chapter, titled "Coloring Punishment: Implicit Social Cognition and Criminal Justice" (in Justin D. Levinson and Robert J. Smith (eds), Implicit Racial Bias Across the Law, 2012) on SSRN. Here's the synopsis:
The United States has become the world’s leader in incarceration. The size and pervasiveness of the criminal justice regime have no parallel in history.
