You brought up how jurors are more likely to find a defendant guilty when the defendant is a different race, and the victim is the same race as the juror, which creates a problem if race is being viewed as a primary factor in the case. Unfortunately, as we know, racial disparities are...
WASHINGTON, Jan. 27 (Xinhua) -- Thousands of "low-risk" inmates are leaving federal prisons this month, while fundamental flaws are existing in the U.S. Justice Department's method for deciding who can take the early-release track, the NPR reported on Wednesday. A law called the First St...
Tonry, M. (1994). Editorial: Racial disparities in courts and prisons. Criminal Behaviour and Mental Health, 4(3), 158-162.Editorial: Racial disparities in courts and prisons - Tonry - 1994Tonry, M. (1994). "Editorial: Racial disparities in courts and prisons." Criminal Behaviour and ...
"I see those young men on street corners and eventually in prisons, and I think to myself, they could be me—that the main difference between me and them is I had a more forgiving environment so that when I slipped up, when I made a mistake, I had a second chance. And they've ...
The color of justice: Racial and ethnic disparity in state prisons. (2020, July 9). The Sentencing Project. https://www.sentencingproject.org/publications/color-of-justice-racial-and-ethnic-disparity-in-state-prisons/ Ethnic and racial minorities & socioeconomic status. (2017, July). https:/...
The Prison within a Prison As a Barrier to Freedom: The Health Impact of Racial Disparities in Solitary Confinement in Michigan PrisonsFinn Bell, MSW
Created Equal: Racial and Ethnic Disparities in the US Criminal Justice System NCCD uses federal and state data to catalog racial and ethnic disparities at each stage of the justice system, including arrest, court processing, jails and prisons, probation and parole, and the death penalty. Primaril...
We argue that systemic factors operating across levels — from the interpersonal to the cultural — contribute to the production and reinforcement of racial biases in children and adults. We consider the effects of five systemic factors on racial biases in the USA: power and privilege disparities,...
Racial disparities in the drug war Since the drug war began in 1971, The United States of America has been creating policies that openly discriminate against minorities. Many political officials have claimed their policies and efforts are aimed at ending the drug war but they have failed to take...
1 Racial disparities in COVID-19 outcomes have also emerged in the USA.2, 3 Yet, the relationships between sex, race, and COVID-19 outcomes in the USA have been unexplored. Lack of analysis of these relationships is a critical research gap for reasons both applied and theoretical. ...