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racial impact statements
marc mauer, executive director of the sentencing project, takes a page from the environmental movement in the latest issue of the ohio state journal of criminal law. his new article on racial impact...
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race, crime, and the scalabrine counterfactual
having just posted on an espn magazine article about perceptions of the n.b.a. as an urban league, i came across a similarly thought- provoking observation in the same issue. brian scalabrine of the...
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strong arm of the law
the seattle pi is in the middle of publishing a series of articles on “the strong arm of the law,” detailing controversial cases and issues with the seattle police department. so far, there are...
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paul campos on pew foundation report
i’m perplexed at the attention to the pew foundation’s recent 1-in-100 study, since i figured that by now most of us had at least a dim sense of the social distribution of criminal punishment. the risk...
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snyder v. louisiana
in snyder v. louisiana, the u.s. supreme court has overturned a murder conviction based on racial discrimination in jury selection. i haven’t been following the court very closely these days, but i...
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news from iowa on racial impact statements
i’ve written about how racial impact statements might be an effective vehicle for assessing the racial effects of proposed measures to protect public safety. this week, iowa governor chet culver signed...
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speaking of school discipline, james walsh offers a nice analysis of the race gap in school suspensions: Black students in Minnesota are being suspended at a rate about six times that of white...
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