Criminologists have long debated the presence of racial disparity at various places in the criminal justice system, from initial on-the-street encounters between citizens and police officers to the sentencing behavior of judges. What is new is the use of statistics designed to persuade the public, and not just other academics and researchers, that grave racial disparities exist in the system, and that these disparities necessitate significant policy changes
While scores of literature may hint at the tumultuous relationship between the criminal justice syst...
Using rich data linking federal cases from arrest through to sentencing, we find that initial case a...
Past research has demonstrated that those arrested for drug crimes is not representative of drug use...
Criminologists have long debated the presence of racial disparity at various places in the criminal ...
While the criminal justice system is theorized, framed, and practiced by most to be "equal for all",...
Minorities are gravely overrepresented in every stage of the criminal process--from pedestrian and a...
This report highlights the influence of implicit racial bias and recounts the findings of the curren...
Racial discrimination remains a prevalent issue in the contemporary U.S. despite efforts to promote ...
Racial discrimination remains a prevalent issue in the contemporary U.S. despite efforts to promote ...
There is an extensive history of racial disparity in the criminal justice system that has influenced...
Several months ago, there was a heated discussion on CrimProf, the listserv for criminal law profess...
Current empirical estimates of racial and other unwarranted disparities in sentencing suffer from tw...
The recent protests and civil unrest that marked the death of George Floyd and other African America...
For decades, the United States of America has employed mass incarceration as a convenient answer to ...
Statistics tend to show Black people commit most of the crime in the United States. Those statistics...
While scores of literature may hint at the tumultuous relationship between the criminal justice syst...
Using rich data linking federal cases from arrest through to sentencing, we find that initial case a...
Past research has demonstrated that those arrested for drug crimes is not representative of drug use...
Criminologists have long debated the presence of racial disparity at various places in the criminal ...
While the criminal justice system is theorized, framed, and practiced by most to be "equal for all",...
Minorities are gravely overrepresented in every stage of the criminal process--from pedestrian and a...
This report highlights the influence of implicit racial bias and recounts the findings of the curren...
Racial discrimination remains a prevalent issue in the contemporary U.S. despite efforts to promote ...
Racial discrimination remains a prevalent issue in the contemporary U.S. despite efforts to promote ...
There is an extensive history of racial disparity in the criminal justice system that has influenced...
Several months ago, there was a heated discussion on CrimProf, the listserv for criminal law profess...
Current empirical estimates of racial and other unwarranted disparities in sentencing suffer from tw...
The recent protests and civil unrest that marked the death of George Floyd and other African America...
For decades, the United States of America has employed mass incarceration as a convenient answer to ...
Statistics tend to show Black people commit most of the crime in the United States. Those statistics...
While scores of literature may hint at the tumultuous relationship between the criminal justice syst...
Using rich data linking federal cases from arrest through to sentencing, we find that initial case a...
Past research has demonstrated that those arrested for drug crimes is not representative of drug use...