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Judge Mark W. Bennett

Mark W. Bennett was appointed a United States district court judge in the Northern District of Iowa on August 26, 1994, by President William Jefferson Clinton.

The next frontier of discriminatory sentencing

Implicit bias in the criminal justice system is a very hot topic these days, as it should be in a system where unjustified racial disparities persist. This past April, my co-authors and I published an article, Judging Implicit Bias: A National Empirical Study Of Judicial Stereotypes, which looks at implicit bias in sentencing by federal and […]