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Mills, Linda Gayle was born on October 21, 1957 in Los Angeles, California, United States. Daughter of Harold and Anne Mills.
( A Penchant for Prejudice combines a detailed empirical ...)
A Penchant for Prejudice combines a detailed empirical study of the decision-making practices of judges with a sophisticated theoretical argument which exposes contemporary myths about judging and suggests methods of incorporating the inevitable bias that is detected in this and other studies. Based on a unique study of the decisions of Social Security judges, the book challenges the meaning of judicial impartiality. Linda G. Mills finds that, in practice, bias is a consistent dimension of what is considered "impartial" decision-making. The results reveal that impartiality as the legal system now defines it, is itself a form of bias, and that a historically and contextually sensitive definition of bias, one which takes account of the communities and cultures that come to be judged in the legal system, must overcome the modern dualistic notion of imparitality as the exclusion of bias in order to respond to needs of the diversity of applicants and the judges who adjudicate their claims. According to Mills, the judicial bias she found reflected in her study seems not only to essentialize and stereotype applicants but also prevents judges from engaging vulnerable claimants in a way that the legal process positively demands. A Penchant for Prejudice will be of interest to students and scholars of law, judicial decisionmaking, and discrimination. Linda G. Mills is Assistant Professor of Social Welfare and Law, University of California, Los Angeles.
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( This startling analysis of violence within intimate rel...)
This startling analysis of violence within intimate relationships contends that every abusive relationship has, paradoxically, a heart of its own. Practitioners must acknowledge and engage this dynamic emotional center in order for interventions to succeed. The Heart of Intimate Abuse takes a broad, critical view of standard responses to abuse by today's criminal justice, social work, and medical systems--especially those that respond to violence with coercive interventions such as mandatory arrest, prosecution, and reporting laws. Here is a bold vision of the core dynamics of abuse in families--a vision that professionals can use to realize new policies and implement effective interventions that reach the heart of intimate abuse.
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Mills, Linda Gayle was born on October 21, 1957 in Los Angeles, California, United States. Daughter of Harold and Anne Mills.
Juris Doctor, University California, San Francisco, 1983. Master of Social Work, San Francisco State University, 1986. Doctor of Philosophy, Brandeis University, 1994.
Executive director, founder The Hawkins Center Law and Services for People with Disabilities, Richmond, California, 1986-1991. Senior program officer Echoing Green Foundation, New York City, 1993-1994. Assistant professor University of California at Los Angeles, 1994-1998, associate professor, 1998-1999, New York University, New York City, 1999-2001, professor, since 2001.
Research associate Brandeis Health Policy Institute, Waltham, Massachusetts, 1993. Consultant United States General Accounting Office, Washington, 1992.
( A Penchant for Prejudice combines a detailed empirical ...)
( This startling analysis of violence within intimate rel...)
Married Peter Goodrich, December 25, 1996. 1 child, Ronnie Mills Goodrich.