Judges Diversity changing Verdicts?!

This article is based on information from Cook County, Illinois. Only men could be judges in the past and now the courts are becoming more diverse. Women held only 8.4% of circuit judge seats in 1991 which now have increased to 14.9%. Women still are the minority on the bench but are causing an impact. Studies are being done that question the verdict on cases that women are the judges. Throughout most of these studies though the determination was that women were more masculine in the courtroom then men. They are trying hard not to perform as women that they are reaching the same conclusion as the men but using a different decision-making process. There was a conclusion made though that women were imposing harsher sentences in criminal cases than their male counterparts. This article shows examples on how the diversity of a workplace or industry could cause results that may not be the same as their male counterparts, that normally would be good but could mean unequal sentencing. In the mainstream of things, women joining men on the courts is a very smart move with many voters voting in favor of women candidates. -Aimee Rankovich









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