08/01/19-WBEZ “I think one of the things that we learned in the past work is that … deviance and delinquency is a group behavior. And the same is true with police,” Andrew Papachristos, CJRA Expert.
08/01/19-CBS Chicago “Police cannot do their jobs effectively without a working relationship with the community,” Andrew Papachristos, CJRA Expert.
08/01/19-The Chicago Tribune “This is true for both good and ‘bad’ behaviors. Criminologists have long known that networks play an important role in deviance and violence. … We are just starting to take the steps to see if these same ideas apply to ‘police deviance.’ Turns out they do,” Andrew Papachristos, CJRA Expert.
08/01/19-The Crime Report “Who we’re connected to affects what we feel, think and do,” Andrew Papachristos, CJRA Expert.
08/01/19-The Crime Report “For example, in sexual assault cases, officers are influenced by schemas that exist in both societal and police culture about what constitutes consent, ‘real rape,’ and the view that ambiguous or false claims are a common occurrence,” Amy Farrell, CJRA Expert.
08/01/19-NPR “The relationship between Blacks and law enforcement has been contentious throughout American history … Faced with the threat of slave insurrection and the chronic problem of slaves fleeing captivity, many state legislatures in the South in the 1700s passed restrictive laws controlling and regulating the movement of slaves through what was known as ‘slave […]
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7/12/19-Education Week “I really expected to see that once we accounted for the effect of prior offending on future offending, the effect of suspension would go away,” Thomas Mowen, CJRA Expert.
7/10/19-VICE News “They’ll often talk about the extent to which they have agency in their own decision, but they don’t see themselves as being exploited,” Rachel Lovell, CJRA Expert.
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