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1 Feb 2024, 5:00 am by The Petrie-Flom Center Staff
Of course, this “drug war” approach didn’t end the urban crisis, it just added a new layer to it:  racially disparate mass incarceration. [read post]
1 Feb 2024, 4:00 am by Eric Berger
  The states' continual bungling of executions plays some role in this changed landscape, though so, of course, do other problems with the death penalty, such as false convictions, cost, and racial disparities. [read post]
23 Jan 2024, 4:05 am by David Lynn
Increasing the net worth and annual income requirements would have a disproportionate impact on these groups and heighten the disparity. [read post]
23 Jan 2024, 4:00 am by Joelle Boxer
” Uzazi Village and Jamaa Birth Village, two maternal health organizations in Missouri, specifically advocate for culturally congruent community-based doulas (CCCDs), who “share the cultural background of their clients [and] work to reduce racial disparities in pregnancy and birth through a multifaceted approach that empowers women of color, mitigating discrimination, racism, loss of autonomy, and preventing other harms to communities that have been neglected by the… [read post]
21 Jan 2024, 9:01 pm by Austin Sarat
This is precisely the kind of conduct Batson was designed to remedy.But there were other things in King’s case that also should have raised red flags.When the defense challenged the prosecutor’s racially disparate strikes, he was hardly subtle about how he felt about the Batson decision and its progeny. [read post]
18 Jan 2024, 12:31 pm by Tracy Thomas
Paul Gugliuzza, Rachel Rebouche & Jordana Goodman, Inequality on Appeal: The Intersection of Race and Gender in Patent Litigation Today, roughly 40% of lawyers are women, 15% are persons of color, and 8% are women of color. [read post]
18 Jan 2024, 7:38 am by Sara E. Teller
Racial inequities must be more adequately addressed to eliminate negative health outcomes among minority populations. [read post]
18 Jan 2024, 2:40 am by jonathanturley
Accurate assessment of abilities, if it happens to show disparate performance among different racial groups, is therefore condemned as “racist. [read post]
17 Jan 2024, 11:22 am by CrimProf BlogEditor
From Doug Bergman, at Sentencing Law & Policy: As noted in this October post, The Sentencing Project has been producing what it describes as "a series of four reports examining both the narrowing and persistence of racial injustice in the... [read post]
17 Jan 2024, 9:02 am by Jay A. Fernandez
Manhattan has the worst disparities in arrest and conviction rates between Black people and white people of any county in the state. [read post]
15 Jan 2024, 9:01 pm by Austin Sarat
One of the most serious of those defects is the great racial disparity among people sentenced to life without parole.In 2016, the Prison Policy Initiative found that 56% of those serving life without all sentences were Black and another 7% were Hispanic, while Blacks comprised only 13% of the American population and Hispanics 17%.A study carried out in 2010 found that across the country Black youths were serving life without parole sentences “at a rate of about 10 times that… [read post]
15 Jan 2024, 7:33 pm by Ezra Rosser
The article concludes with suggestions for advancing racial justice in Social Security programs in addressing the legacy of exclusion and informing responses to other threats of programmatic disparate treatment. [read post]
8 Jan 2024, 7:27 am by Dan Farber
  Part of the reason is the income-gap in health, which plays out in the racial context. [read post]
8 Jan 2024, 7:01 am by Irene
The Treasury Department named its first ever racial equity chief, a veteran La Raza official who spent a decade at the nation’s most influential open borders group. [read post]
From the disturbing racial disparities that continue to plague military justice, to the abject failure to hold sexual perpetrators to account, the military’s criminal justice system has long produced unjust results due to such defective structure. [read post]
4 Jan 2024, 9:05 pm by Jordan Lassiter
EDITOR’S CHOICE In an essay in The Regulatory Review, Hannah Kass, a PhD student at the University of Wisconsin, argued that comprehensive land reform focused on racial disparities is necessary to address entrenched racial disparities in U.S. land ownership. [read post]
4 Jan 2024, 12:44 pm by John Elwood
The majority held that because the policy does not facially consider race, the coalition had to show either that it nonetheless had a racially disparate impact against Asian American applicants, or that the school board had implemented it to intentionally discriminate against those applicants. [read post]