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Adam Benforado is an American law professor at Drexel University’s Kline School of Law. His research focuses on criminal justice, behavioral science, and the intersection of law and psychology.
Known for: Unfair: The New Science of Criminal Injustice
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Unfair: The New Science of Criminal Injustice
Unfair: The New Science of Criminal Injustice explores how hidden biases, emotions, and cognitive errors shape the American criminal justice system. Drawing on psychology, neuroscience, and law, Adam Benforado argues that the system is deeply flawed not because of bad people but because of the way our minds work. He examines how juries, judges, and police officers are influenced by unconscious factors and proposes reforms to create a more just and evidence-based system.
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The Illusion of Objectivity
One of the first myths I had to dismantle is the idea that our legal actors—judges, juries, police officers—operate as neutral machines of reason. The system assumes that facts speak for themselves and that every decision rests on pure logic. Cognitive science has proven otherwise. When an officer e...
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Perception and Memory
Few elements of the courtroom carry more persuasive power than an eyewitness, yet the science of memory tells us that this confidence is misplaced. Memory is not a video recording—it is a reconstruction shaped by expectation, stress, and external suggestion. I recount numerous cases where victims an...
From Unfair: The New Science of Criminal Injustice
About Adam Benforado
Adam Benforado is an American law professor at Drexel University’s Kline School of Law. His research focuses on criminal justice, behavioral science, and the intersection of law and psychology. He is known for his work on fairness, bias, and systemic reform in the legal system.
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Adam Benforado is an American law professor at Drexel University’s Kline School of Law. His research focuses on criminal justice, behavioral science, and the intersection of law and psychology.
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