Judges on trial: How to promote judicial accountability

Tuesday, January 19, 2010 - 12:35 in Psychology & Sociology

Public employees have long been subject to performance reviews that evaluate how well they are performing their jobs. But can judges, public employees who literally hold the power of life and death in their hands, be assessed in the same way? New research from North Carolina State University and East Carolina University shows that there is an effective way to evaluate judges, which benefits both the public and the judges themselves.

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