Name: 【TED】Victoria Pratt: How judges can show respect (How judges can show respect | Victoria Pratt)
Uploaded: 2017-12-28T18:22:07.000Z
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"Judge, I want to tell you something. I want to tell you something.

That was said to me by a transgender prostitute

and yelled at the person sitting next to her,

"I don't know what you're looking at. I look better than the girl you're with."

so that it could be picked up by the record,

so that she could walk down the aisle towards counselor's table with dignity.

This is procedural justice, also known as procedural fairness,

You see, I am the daughter of an African-American garbageman

and spent his summers in the segregated South.

I do that to make sure you're still paying attention.

I'm the daughter of a Dominican beautician

who came to this country for a better life for her unborn children.

My parents taught me, you treat everyone you meet with dignity and respect,

no matter how they look, no matter how they dress,

and unbeknownst to me, it would be the most important lesson

that I carried with me to the Newark Municipal Court bench.

And because I was dragged off the playground

at the early age of 10 to translate for family members

as they began to migrate to the United States,

I understand how daunting it can be for a person, a novice,

Every day across America and around the globe,

and it is a place that is foreign, intimidating

They are confused about the nature of their charges,

annoyed about their encounters with the police

and facing consequences that might impact their relationships, their finances

of what it's like for the average person who encounters our courts.

First, they're annoyed as they're probed going through court security.

They finally get through court security, they walk around the building,

they ask different people the same question

When they finally get to where they're supposed to be,

it gets really bad when they encounter the courts.

that you could improve people's court experience,

all the while increasing the public's trust

Well, that simple idea is procedural justice

that if people perceive they are treated fairly

Well, that's what Yale professor Tom Tyler found

when he began to study as far back in the '70s

He found that if people see the justice system

as a legitimate authority to impose rules and regulations,

if they perceived that they were treated fairly

And that perception of fairness begins with what?

Begins with how judges speak to court participants.

is sometimes like having a reserve seat to a tragic reality show

was greater than my fear of appearing vulnerable on the bench,

I realized that not only did I need to do something,

The good news is is that the principles of procedural justice are easy

and can be implemented as quickly as tomorrow.

The even better news, that it can be done for free.

even when you're not going to let them speak.

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【TED】Victoria Pratt: How judges can show respect (How judges can show respect | Victoria Pratt)

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