Implicit Bias Videos and Toolkit

The Diversity and Inlusion 360 Commission, a one-year presidential initiative established by past President Paulette Brown, explored the existence of implicit bias and what can be done to combat it through a series of videos specifically targeting key players in the judicial system: judges, prosecutors and public defenders.  The videos are accompanied by a toolkit that offers additional resources and materials that can be used in training programs for those groups of professionals.

To download the resources below, please right-click on the link and click "Save link as" or "Save target as".

Hidden Injustice

The Prosecutor's Paradox

Toward a Better Defense

Bias on the Bench

If you will be showing one of these videos at a program, please email Selina Thomas at Selina.Thomas@americanbar.org to let us know when and where you will be showing it so we can track usage.

TOOLKIT

• Implicit Bias User Guide and Bibliography
• Implicit Bias & Judges: How innate attitudes shape behavior, even on the bench
• Implicit Bias & Prosecutors: How innate attitudes shape behavior and can distort justice
• Implicit Bias & Public Defenders: How innate attitudes shape behavior and can distort justice

More ABA Resources on Implicit Bias

• Commission on Disability Rights (disability bias)
• ABA Career Center's Implicit Bias 101 Career Development Series (members-only)
• Section of Litigation (information about the Implicit Association Test)
• Section of Civil Rights and Social Justice (implicit bias and racial disparities in healthcare)
• Law Student Division (ways law students can interrupt implicit bias)
• Law Practice Division (implicit bias in the workplace)