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10 Dec 2007, 1:47 pm
After two decades of escalating prison populations, the Court has finally signaled a changed in course, branding the crack/powder cocaine sentencing disparity as racially biased and fundamentally unfair. [read post]
25 Jan 2014, 8:39 am
Tweet Tags: disparate impact, school disciplineNew racial school-discipline guidelines, cont’d is a post from Overlawyered - Chronicling the high cost of our legal system [read post]
20 Apr 2021, 3:00 am
The Senate Finance Committee holds a hearing today on Combatting Inequality: The Tax Code and Racial, Ethnic, and Gender Disparities at 10:00 AM ET (live video here): Dorothy Brown (Emory) Testimony: In my testimony today, I will discuss three ways that tax policies are more likely to provide tax breaks... [read post]
9 Jan 2019, 11:00 am
Fiss argues that a Court in the coming decades could interpret the Equal Protection Clause to require judges to review the racially disparate impact of state action. [read post]
5 Aug 2019, 6:30 am
Building on a quantitative analysis of case-level data culled from police, court, and prison records, it explores the emergence of racial disparities in death-penalty sentencing and charts the increasing use of capital punishment as a mechanism of racial control. [read post]
22 Dec 2018, 1:19 pm
A federal commission on school safety has repudiated the use of disparate-impact analysis in evaluating whether school discipline is racially biased. [read post]
15 Jul 2021, 9:20 am
This racial disparity is unacceptable, and... [read post]
27 Sep 2022, 9:27 am
A new report on race and wrongful convictions has confirmed some alarming racial disparities in the criminal legal system. [read post]
31 Dec 2020, 1:50 pm
Elsa Chen and Emily Chung (Santa Clara University and Santa Clara University, College of Arts and Sciences, Department of Political Science) have posted General Effects of Proposition 36 on Racial and Ethnic Disparities in Three Strikes Sentencing on SSRN. [read post]
16 Feb 2011, 1:02 pm
This, in turn, drives both the racial and geographic disparities in federal death sentences. [read post]
29 May 2013, 7:20 am
The tl;dr version: racial disparities in drug incarcerations cannot explain racial disparities in total prison populations, and those disparities (with respect to the population baseline) are going to be heavily influenced by more-serious offenders, for whom the racial composition of inmates remains fairly close to the racial composition of offenses. [read post]
24 Apr 2008, 2:45 pm
I was disappointed, though, that the story did not discuss the devastatingly disproportionate rates of imprisonment of racial minorities. [read post]
4 Mar 2021, 10:49 am
We first review recent studies finding racial disparities in connection with consumer complaints and look at the methodology used for those studies and its limitations. [read post]
5 Jul 2021, 5:53 pm
Such disparities in accident risks among communities seem to have expanded over the past year. [read post]
10 Feb 2016, 4:57 am
Edward Morris and Brea Perry's new study of the connection between discipline practices and the racial achievement gap is a must read. [read post]
14 Dec 2007, 4:56 am
The New York Times has this fascinating report on an unusual court hearing yesterday in Connecticut concerning racial disparities in the operation of the state's death penalty. [read post]
1 Apr 2023, 7:21 am
13 Jul 2020, 2:15 pm
The post Death of Pregnant 26-Year-Old Black Woman Highlights Racial Disparities in Maternal Mortality appeared first on . [read post]
15 Feb 2011, 8:52 pm
High county-district racial disparities may be necessary for federal death sentences, but they are not necessarily sufficient. [read post]
20 Aug 2021, 6:19 am
Research shows healthcare has made little progress to address racial inequity. [read post]
