Author: Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Criminal justice, Administration of
Languages : en
Pages : 41
Book Description
Research report reveal, restore and resurrect: the truth about racial disparities in the Arkansas criminal justice system
Author: Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Criminal justice, Administration of
Languages : en
Pages : 41
Book Description
Reducing Racial Inequality in Crime and Justice: Science, Practice, and Policy
Author: National Academies Of Sciences EngineeriPublisher: National Academies Press
ISBN: 9780309693370
Category : Law
Languages : en
Pages : 0
Book Description
The history of the U.S. criminal justice system is marked by racial inequality and sustained by present day policy. Large racial and ethnic disparities exist across the several stages of criminal legal processing, including in arrests, pre-trial detention, and sentencing and incarceration, among others, with Black, Latino, and Native Americans experiencing worse outcomes. The historical legacy of racial exclusion and structural inequalities form the social context for racial inequalities in crime and criminal justice. Racial inequality can drive disparities in crime, victimization, and system involvement. Reducing Racial Inequality in Crime and Justice: Science, Practice, and Policy synthesizes the evidence on community-based solutions, noncriminal policy interventions, and criminal justice reforms, charting a path toward the reduction of racial inequalities by minimizing harm in ways that also improve community safety. Reversing the effects of structural racism and severing the close connections between racial inequality, criminal harms such as violence, and criminal justice involvement will involve fostering local innovation and evaluation, and coordinating local initiatives with state and federal leadership. This report also highlights the challenge of creating an accurate, national picture of racial inequality in crime and justice: there is a lack of consistent, reliable data, as well as data transparency and accountability. While the available data points toward trends that Black, Latino, and Native American individuals are overrepresented in the criminal justice system and given more severe punishments compared to White individuals, opportunities for improving research should be explored to better inform decision-making.
Author: Standards and Goals for the Arkansas Criminal Justice System
Author: Arkansas. Commission on Crime and Law EnforcementPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Criminal justice, Administration of
Languages : en
Pages : 141
Book Description
Racial disparities in the criminal justice system
Author: United States. Congress. House. Committee on the Judiciary. Subcommittee on Crime, Terrorism, and Homeland SecurityPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Crack (Drug)
Languages : en
Pages : 336
Book Description
A Theory of African American Offending
Author: James D. UnneverPublisher: Routledge
ISBN: 1136809201
Category : Social Science
Languages : en
Pages : 256
Book Description
A little more than a century ago, the famous social scientist W.E.B. Du Bois asserted that a true understanding of African American offending must be grounded in the "real conditions" of what it means to be black living in a racial stratified society. Today and according to official statistics, African American men – about six percent of the population of the United States – account for nearly sixty percent of the robbery arrests in the United States. To the authors of this book, this and many other glaring racial disparities in offending centered on African Americans is clearly related to their unique history and to their past and present racial subordination. Inexplicably, however, no criminological theory exists that fully articulates the nuances of the African American experience and how they relate to their offending. In readable fashion for undergraduate students, the general public, and criminologists alike, this book for the first time presents the foundations for the development of an African American theory of offending.
Race, Ethnicity, and the American Criminal Justice System
Author: David L. HudsonRace, Crime, and the Law
Author: Randall KennedyPublisher: Pantheon
ISBN:
Category : Law
Languages : en
Pages : 568
Book Description
In this powerfully reasoned, lucidly written work, Harvard Law Professor Randall Kennedy takes on the highly complex issues of race, crime, and the legal system, uncovering the long-standing failure of the justice system to protect blacks from criminals and revealing difficult truths about these factors in the United States.
The Political Roots of Racial Tracking in American Criminal Justice
Author: Nina M. MoorePublisher: Cambridge University Press
ISBN: 1107022975
Category : Law
Languages : en
Pages : 405
Book Description
This book examines the role of the public and policy makers in enabling the race problem in the American criminal justice system.
Racial Issues in Criminal Justice
Author: Marvin D. FreePublisher:
ISBN: 9781881798552
Category : Social Science
Languages : en
Pages : 278
Book Description