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wow.Middle class and upwards white men.
I don't think anyone I know who works in criminal law would agree.
5% variance basically.
For those who won't read the links: Ethnic minorities appear to get charged and convicted more often for similar crimes and given custodial sentences more frequently, but if convicted their sentence lengths appear to be in line with the norm.
But I certainly wouldn't argue that it's not more pronounced in the US. A big factor is access to good legal representation, rather than Judges/juries being bias.
You have to be super carful with arguments about statistical representation. If people from X background are more likely to be involved in Y crime, for whatever reason. That does not mean we have bias justice.