Sofia Laguna
Biographic Data
| ID | 1493249 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Sofia Laguna |
| GIVEN NAMES | Sofia |
| FAMILY NAME | Laguna |
| SIGNATURE | LAGUNA S |
| AFFILIATIONS | University of California, Irvine |
| ORCID | 0000-0001-7343-9493 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 3 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 2 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 3 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2018 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2025 |
| H-INDEX | 1 |
Police talk in the jury room: The Production of Race-Conscious Reasonable Doubt Among Racially Diverse Jury Groups
A central goal of Critical Race Theory (CRT) is to deconstruct the "jurisprudence of color-blindness" that is infused with the language of equality while operating to maintain racial hierarchies. Color-blind ideology extends to the procedures governing criminal juries, ensuring they are disproportionately white while constraining diversity of perspectives, especially regarding policing issues. In this paper, we merge CRT insights about color-blin…
Race, witness credibility, and jury deliberation in a simulated drug trafficking trial
OBJECTIVE: The present study integrates several distinct lines of jury decision-making research by examining how the racial identities of the defendant and an informant witness interact in a federal drug conspiracy trial scenario and by assessing whether jurors' individual racial identity and jury group racial composition influence their judgments. HYPOTHESES: We predicted that jurors would be biased against the Black defendant and would be more …
Constructing Drug Using Victims: Race and Class in Policy Debates on Ecstasy Use in the U.S
Sociologists and political scientists examining the social construction of public anxiety surrounding drug use in the United States have argued that racial minorities are the targets of the harshest drug laws while middle-class whites are shielded. In this article, I provide further evidence that middle-class, white drug users are shielded from harsh punishment by analyzing the process through which U.S. legislators and policy makers decide which…
Constructing Drug Using Victims: Race and Class in Policy Debates on Ecstasy Use in the U.S
Sociologists and political scientists examining the social construction of public anxiety surrounding drug use in the United States have argued that racial minorities are the targets of the harshest drug laws while middle-class whites are shielded. In this article, I provide further evidence that middle-class, white drug users are shielded from harsh punishment by analyzing the process through which U.S. legislators and policy makers decide which…
Constructing Drug Using Victims: Race and Class in Policy Debates on Ecstasy Use in the U.S
Sociologists and political scientists examining the social construction of public anxiety surrounding drug use in the United States have argued that racial minorities are the targets of the harshest drug laws while middle-class whites are shielded. In this article, I provide further evidence that middle-class, white drug users are shielded from harsh punishment by analyzing the process through which U.S. legislators and policy makers decide which…
Race, witness credibility, and jury deliberation in a simulated drug trafficking trial
OBJECTIVE: The present study integrates several distinct lines of jury decision-making research by examining how the racial identities of the defendant and an informant witness interact in a federal drug conspiracy trial scenario and by assessing whether jurors' individual racial identity and jury group racial composition influence their judgments. HYPOTHESES: We predicted that jurors would be biased against the Black defendant and would be more …
Police talk in the jury room: The Production of Race-Conscious Reasonable Doubt Among Racially Diverse Jury Groups
A central goal of Critical Race Theory (CRT) is to deconstruct the "jurisprudence of color-blindness" that is infused with the language of equality while operating to maintain racial hierarchies. Color-blind ideology extends to the procedures governing criminal juries, ensuring they are disproportionately white while constraining diversity of perspectives, especially regarding policing issues. In this paper, we merge CRT insights about color-blin…
Criminology (3 works) · Law (3 works) · Political science (3 works) · Psychology (3 works) · Sociology (3 works) · Jury (2 works) · Jury Decision Making Processes (2 works) · Jury selection (2 works) · Social Psychology (2 works) · Acquittal (1 works)