Procedural Fairness

New Report Shows Judges Can—and Do—Improve Fairness with Attention and Practice

Emily LaGratta’s national report on her Fairness Challenge Pilot Project highlights a successful six-month initiative involving…
Website Update

The old Procedural Fairness for Courts and Judges website is down. A new website has been…
Procedural Fairness and Problem-Solving Courts

by Brooke McBride, J.D. Foreword: Thank you to Dr. Tom Tyler, who recently presented at the…
Procedural Fairness in Pretrial Monitoring

By Lindsey Wylie JD, PhD Failing to AppearMissing court has significant costs to individuals and the…
AI + Procedural Fairness = ?

By David Rottman, PhD I thank my former colleague Bill Raftery for introducing the topic of…
Procedural Fairness and AI: Current Research

By Bill Raftery, NCSC Senior Knowledge Management Analyst The question of what role artificial intelligence and…
New Bench Card for Trial Judges

Four national court organizations released a Procedural Fairness Bench card for trial judges today. The bench…
Michigan judge provides clinic on showing compassion to crime victims at sentencing

Michigan trial judge Rosemarie Aquilina is presiding over the sentencing hearing for Lawrence Nassar, the former…
Procedural Justice Is for Victims Too

Over the past year, we’ve been talking with authors of recent studies on procedural fairness, asking…
Shared Race and Perceptions of Fairness Among Female Offenders

In our last post, we looked at the effectiveness of procedural-fairness principles among adolescent offenders. This time we…