POLS 3130 Chapter Notes -Blood Sugar
14 Mar 2014
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The law should be applied without fear or favor and only using the facts of the case to determine what happens to the accused. Lawyers do not agree with justices always being neutral. A study was conducted where 8 israeli judges were followed around for 10 months and ruled over 1,000 applications. The plaintiffs asked to either be let out on parole or have their incarceration conditions changed. At the start of the day the judges granted more favorable conditions than later in the day. Surprisingly after the breaks where the judges ate their food the rate increased of favorable outcomes then to later fall back again. Food was not the only factor (if you had a previous record you are likelier to be turned down) Severity of the crime, race, gender, length of stay already-- did not matter to the judges. 2 hypothesis raised to for the reasons of grumpiness: the blood sugar level.
