These are some of our favorite sources on topics surrounding Criminal Justice and Inequality
Policing
The Code Switch Guide to Race and Policing (NPR, 2020)
“10 things we know about race and policing in the U.S.” (Pew Research Center, 2020)
“5 facts about crime in the U.S.” (Pew Research Center, 2019)
NYCLU Stop-and-Frisk Data (NYCLU, 2019)
Policing the Black Man edited by Angela J. Davis (Penguin Random House, 2018)
FBI Uniform Crime Reports: Arrest Tables (FBI, 2018)
Hate Crime Laws to Protect Police are Misguided (Jurist, 2016)
1.5 Million Missing Black Men (New York Times, 2015)
Punished: Policing the Lives of Black and Latino Boys by Sergio Rios (NYU Press, 2011)
Prisons
The Sentencing Project: Trends in U.S. Corrections (2020)
Digital Jail: How Electronic Monitoring Drives Defendants Into Debt (ProPublica, 2019)
The Race Gap in US Prisons Is, and Poverty Is Making it Worse (Mother Jones, 2018)
The cold hard facts about America’s private prison system (Fox News, 2018)
The New Jim Crow: Mass Incarceration in the Age of Colorblindness by Michelle Alexander (2010)
Wrongful Convictions
My Three Decades With Darryl Hunt by Mark Rabil (Albany Law Review, 2011)
Death Penalty
Current U.S. Death Row Population by Race (Death Penalty Information Center, 2020)
Facts about the Death Penalty (Death Penalty Information Center, 2020)
Executions by State and Region Since 1976 (Death Penalty Information Center, 2020)
Prosecutors, Judges & Criminal Proceedings
What is Transitional Justice? (International Center for Transitional Justice, 2020)
Marching Toward Reform in New Orleans (70 Million Podcast, 2019)
Who Shouldn’t Prosecute the Police by Kate Levine (Iowa Law Review, 2016)
How Prosecutor Elections Fail Us by Ronald F. Wright (Ohio State Journal of Criminal Law, 2008)
Bias, Racism and the Criminal Justice System
Want to Make America Safe? Here Are 5 Ways to Do That (The Nation, 2016)
The Disproportionate Risks of Driving While Black (New York Times, 2015)
Police, Power, and the Production of Racial Boundaries by Ana Muñiz (Rutgers University Press, 2015)
The Science of Why Cops Shoot Young Black Men by Chris Mooney (Mother Jones, 2014)
Defusing Implicit Bias by Jonathan Feingold & Karen Lorang (UCLA Law Review, 2012)
Trojan Horses of Race by Jerry Kang (Harvard Law Review, 2005)
Criminal Justice & Political Participation
Voting from Jail Is a Right, and Now a Reality in Chicago (70 Million Podcast, 2020)
Crimmigration
Deportations Under ICE’s Secure Communities Program (TRAC, 2018)
A Gendered Approach to Criminal Justice and Inequality Topics
How Bail Shackles Women of Color (70 Million Podcast, 2019)
Incarcerated Women and Girls by The Sentencing Project (2019)
Putting Women Already in Jail First (70 Million Podcast, 2018)
Covid-19 & Criminal (In)Justice
Films & Videos
13th Film by Ava Duvernay (Netflix, 2020)
When They See Us by Ava Duvernay (mini series) (Netflix, 2019)
The Hate You Give (20th Century Fox, 2018)
Policing the Police (PBS, 2016)
Gideon’s Army (The Orchard Entertainment, 2013)
MHP: How does it feel to be a problem, Black America? (MSNBC, 2013)
Forsyth County News & Organizations
“Protester Demands Largely Met by Forsyth County Sheriff’s Office” (WFDD, 2020)
Forsyth County Community Bail Fund
Speaking Events
Mobilized by Injustice: A Book Presentation by Dr. Hannah Walker
On October 8, 2020, RIPI kicked off its inaugural virtual speaker event with Dr. Hannah Walker’s presentation of her latest book, Mobilized by Injustice: Criminal Justice Contact, Political Participation and Race (available for purchase here). Dr. Hannah L. Walker is an assistant professor of Government at the University of Texas at Austin. Her research examines the impact of the criminal justice system on American democracy with special attention to minority and immigrant communities. Previously, she served as an assistant professor of Political Science and Criminal Justice at Rutgers University (2017-2020), and a postdoctoral fellow with the Prisons and Justice Initiative at Georgetown University (2016-2017). She received her PhD in 2016 from the University of Washington. Recording Passcode: Z$9n?oVh
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