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.
Read the June 2019 newsletter here.
In the United States, heightened hostility toward Hispanic immigrants is common in contemporary public discourse, as are fears about Hispanic immigrants and crime. We know that the treatment of Hispanic immigrants differs depending on whether they come to areas of the United States that have historically welcomed Hispanic immigrants or to new destinations that have […]
6/6/19-The San Diego Tribune “These new areas might be on their way to becoming “hot spots” — places where crime spikes and deserve more attention from police and policy makers,” Richard Rosenfeld, CJRA Expert.
Read the May 2019 newsletter here.