One can speculate about
the role of racial bias and stereotypes in the jury's reasoning, and whether it simply refused to apply the law, preferring instead the position that killing is justified when people come on your property and make you afraid — i.e., that they refused to apply the law not as the conscience of their community, but because they disagreed with applying it here.
Now, another research group has examined the possible
role of racial bias at NIH by comparing head - to - head the productivity and funding of black and white medical researchers at the same institutions.
Not exact matches
There are some immediate measures that can be taken — a few are mentioned in the CBA's Ethical Practices Self - Evaluation Tool including having interviewers and lawyers who make hiring decisions receive training on gender and
racial stereotypes and the
role of unconscious
bias in hiring decisions; using written interviewing guidelines; having an employment equity and diversity hiring policy in place and regularly measuring diversity performance within the firm.