Richard Herbst

Mr. Herbst will focus his research on longitudinal studies of American and international criminal law systems focusing on gender bias and the divide between rural and urban legal systems. Mr. Herbst will join the work of Dr. Loraine Gelsthorpe analyzing gender bias in the courtroom. Through an extensive survey of criminal court judges in the US and UK, he will assess the attitudes of judges regarding men and women in the courtroom. Mr. Herbst will then link the crime rates of men and women in the area of the surveyed judges with their responses, comparing urban and rural areas. Questions addressed by this element of the research will include the differences of crime rates and sex of the offender in rural versus urban settings.