These are some of our favorite sources on topics surrounding Criminal Justice and Inequality
Policing
“A month before George Floyd’s death, black and white Americans differed sharply in confidence in the police” (Pew Research Center, 2020)
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)
“Curbing Excessive Force: A Primer on Barriers to Police Accountability” by Kami Chavis (American Constitution Society, 2017)
Police Are Our Government: Politics, Political Science, and the Policing of Race–Class Subjugated Communities by Joe Soss and Vesla Weaver (Annual Review of Political Science, 2017)
Hate Crime Laws to Protect Police are Misguided (Jurist, 2016)
Down, Out, and Under Arrest: Policing and Everyday Life in Skid Row by Forest Stuart (University of Chicago Press, 2016)
“Body-Worn Cameras: Exploring the Unintentional Consequences of Technological Advances and Ensuring a Role for Community Consultation” by Kami Chavis (Wake Forest Law Review, 2016)
1.5 Million Missing Black Men (New York Times, 2015)
Militarization of School Police: One Route on the School-to-Prison Pipeline by Bethany J. Peak (Arkansas Law Review, 2015)
Procedural Justice and Police Legitimacy: Using Training as a Foundation for Strengthening Community-Police Relationships by Daniela Gilbert et al. (2015)
Booking Students: An Analysis of School Arrests and Court Outcomes by Kerrin Wolf (Northwestern Journal of Law and Social Policy, 2013)
Shaping Citizen Perceptions of Police Legitimacy: A Randomized Field Trial of Procedural Justice by Lorraine Mazerolle, et al. (Criminology, 2013)
Procedural Justice and Police Legitimacy: Using Training as a Foundation for Strengthening Community-Police Relationships by Daniela Gilbert (2013)
Limited Leverage: Federal Remedies and Policing Reform by Rachel Harmon (Saint Louis University Public Law Review, 2012)
Police Behavior During Traffic and Street Stops by Lynn Langton and Matthew Durose (Bureau of Justice Statistics, 2011)
Punished: Policing the Lives of Black and Latino Boys by Sergio Rios (NYU Press, 2011)
Effective Police Interactions With Youth: A Program Evaluation by Valerie LaMotte, et al. (Police Quarterly, 2010)
Rethinking How We Police Youth: Incorporating Knowledge of Adolescence into Policing Teens by Lisa H. Thurau (Children’s Legal Rights Journal, 2009)
Across the Thin Blue Line: Police Officers and Racial Bias in the Decision to Shoot by Joshua Correll, et al. (Journal of Personality and Social Psychology, 2007)
Race, Police, and the Making of a Political Identity Mexican Americans and the Los Angeles Police Department, 1900-1945 by Edward J. Escobar (University of California Press, 1999)
Prisons
The Sentencing Project: Trends in U.S. Corrections (2020)
Digital Jail: How Electronic Monitoring Drives Defendants Into Debt (ProPublica, 2019)
American Prison: A Reporter’s Undercover Journey in the Business of Punishment by Shane Bauer (Penguin Random House, 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)
Caught: The Prison State and the Lockdown of American Politics by (Princeton University Press, 2016)
Perverse Politics: The Persistence of Mass Imprisonment in the Twenty-First Century by Rebecca U. Thorpe (Perspectives on Politics, 2015)
The Growth of Incarceration in the United States by Jeremy Travis, et al. (National Academies Press, 2014)
The New Jim Crow: Mass Incarceration in the Age of Colorblindness by Michelle Alexander (2010)
The Black Family and Mass Incarceration by Bruce Western and Christopher Wildeman (Annals of the American Academy of Political and Social Sciences, 2009)
Understanding the Challenges of Prisoner Reentry: Research Findings from the Urban Institute’s Prisoner Reentry Portfolio by Demelza Baer, et al. (Urban Institute, 2006)
Doing Time on the Outside: Incarceration and Family Life in Urban America by Donald Braman (University of Michigan Press, 2004)
The Impact of Incarceration on Wage Mobility and Inequality by Bruce Western (American Sociological Review, 2002)
Wrongful Convictions
Framing innocence: an experimental test of the effects of wrongful convictions on public opinion by Robert J. Norris & Kevin J. Mullinix (Journal of Experimental Criminology, 2020)
Informant Witnesses and the Risk of Wrongful Convictions by Jessica A. Roth (American Criminal Law Review, 2016)
My Three Decades With Darryl Hunt by Mark Rabil (Albany Law Review, 2011)
Invalid Forensic Science Testimony and Wrongful Convictions by Brandon L. Garrett and Peter J. Neufeld (Virginia Law Review, 2009)
Death Penalty
Current U.S. Death Row Population by Race (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)
Criminal Proceedings before North Carolina Magistrates by Jessica Smith (UNC School of Government, 2014)
How Prosecutor Elections Fail Us by Ronald F. Wright (Ohio State Journal of Criminal Law, 2008)
Trial Distortion and the End of Innocence in Federal Criminal Justice by Ronald F. Wright (University of Pennsylvania Law Review, 2005)
The Sentencing Judge As Immigration Judge by Margaret H. Taylor and Ronald F. Wright (Emory Law Journal, 2002)
Bias, Racism and the Criminal Justice System
Police, Power, and the Production of Racial Boundaries by Ana Muñiz (Rutgers University Press, 2015)
Criminal Justice & Political Participation
Crimmigration
Walls, Cages, and Family Separation: Race and Immigration Policy in the Trump Era by Sophia Jordán Wallace and Chris Zepeda-Millán (Cambridge University Press, 2020)
The expansion of “crimmigration”, mass detention and deportation by Cecilia Menjivar, Andrea Gomez Cervantes and Daniel Alvord (Sociology Compass, 2018)
Undocumented Immigrants Are Tethered to ICE, and Private Companies, by Ankle Monitors (70 Million Podcast, 2018)
Deportations Under ICE’s Secure Communities Program (TRAC, 2018)
The Criminal Justice System and Latinos in an Emerging Latino Area by Betina Cutaia Wilkinson (SMU Tower Center, 2018)
Secure Communities by the Numbers: An Analysis of Demographics and Due Process by Aarti Kohli, et al. (UC Berkeley Law Chief Justice Earl Warren Institute on Law and Social Policy, 2011)
Police and Immigration Enforcement: Impacts on Latino(a) Residents’ Perceptions of Police by Guadalupe Vidales, et al. (Policing: An International Journal of Police Strategies & Management, 2009)
Latino Immigrants’ Perceptions of Crime and Police Authorities in the United States: A Case Study from the Phoenix Metropolitan Area by Cecilia Menjívar & Cynthia Bejarano (Ethnic and Racial Studies, 2004)
A Gendered Approach to Criminal Justice and Inequality Topics
Covid-19 & Criminal (In)Justice
COVID-19 and Youth Impacted by Juvenile and Adult Criminal Justice Systems by Elizabeth S. Barnert (Pediatrics, 2020)
Rural Victimization and Policing during the COVID-19 Pandemic by J. Andrew Hansen & Gabrielle L. Lory (American Journal of Criminal Justice, 2020)
Has COVID-19 Changed Crime? Crime Rates in the United States during the Pandemic by John H. Boman IV & Owen Gallupe (American Journal of Criminal Justice, 2020)
COVID-19 Cases and Deaths in Federal and State Prisons by Brendan Saloner, Kalind Parish, Julie A. Ward (JAMA Network, 2020)
The pandemic paradox: The consequences of COVID‐19 on domestic violence by Caroline Bradbury‐Jones and Louise Isham (Journal of Clinical Nursing, 2020)
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)
Triad Abolition Project
Siembra NC
Forsyth County Community Bail Fund
Housing Justice Now
Forsyth Court Support
Brake Light Clinics with DSA
Prisoner Outreach Initiative
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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