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18 Feb 2011, 12:13 pm by Mary Whisner
People of color are over-represented at every stage of the criminal justice system, from arrest through sentencing and incarceration.Paula Ditton Henzel, Disproportionality and Disparity in Adult Felony Sentencing 2003 (Wash. [read post]
22 May 2020, 9:01 am by Rep. Sheila Jackson Lee
For that reason, the legacy of racial inequality has persisted and left the nation vulnerable to a range of problems that continue to yield division, racial disparities, and injustice. [read post]
The experts at the UN, who are part of the Working Group of experts on people of African descent, called the report “tone-deaf” and “reprehensible”: Among other things, the Report blames single parents for poor outcomes, ignoring the racial disparities and the racialized nature of poor outcomes that exist despite an increased prevalence of single-parent families in every demographic. [read post]
31 Jan 2017, 3:30 am by Aziz Huq
Yet the pressing and fundamental theoretical question raised by Justice Scalia’s Ricci concurrence has not dissipated: How is it that anticlassification and disparate impact can both purport to mitigate racial discrimination, and yet conflict? [read post]
7 Feb 2017, 4:34 pm by Sabrina I. Pacifici
No other student racial or ethnic groups face such disparities in as many states. [read post]
12 Aug 2013, 11:10 am by Rekha Arulanantham
This is the first major address from the Obama Administration calling for action to end the mass incarceration crisis and reduce the racial disparities that plague our criminal justice system. [read post]
11 Jun 2020, 2:30 pm by Lisa Larrimore Ouellette
As she explains: [H]ealth care providers unintentionally discriminate against racial and ethnic minority patients—and . . . their unintentional discrimination directly and substantially contributes to ethnic and racial health care disparities. [read post]
11 Jul 2018, 11:36 am by a.burchfield@csuohio.edu
The Substance Abuse and Mental Health Services Administration (SAMHSA), also an HHS division, is another source for information on health disparities, and mental health and substance abuse information for specific racial and ethnic populations. [read post]
22 Sep 2017, 9:02 am
But when Dan Roth, a Berkeley-based criminal defense lawyer, testified before the California State Senate about the bill’s potential to have a racially disparate impact, Senator Hannah-Beth Jackson, who drafted the law, dismissed Mr. [read post]
14 Jan 2008, 6:13 am
Note in particular page 34 of the complaint - - a full-color map of the city depicting the racial disparities alleged in the complaint. [read post]
28 Jul 2015, 8:10 am
Second, the Supreme Court should reinterpret the Equal Protection Clause of the United States Constitution so that it protects against not only intentional discrimination but also any disparate impact caused by racial beliefs that regularly function to produce inequality, as described in this chapter. [read post]
21 Sep 2018, 2:56 pm by Emma Zack
The report also recognizes the racial disparities in Louisiana’s prison population. [read post]
5 Sep 2020, 9:26 am by Ezra Rosser
In the 20th century, local and federal officals, usually white, enacted policies that reinforced racial segregation in cities and diverted investment away from minority neighborhoods in ways that created large disparities in the urban heat environment. [read post]
25 Mar 2018, 6:57 am by Tom Smith
The Trump administration plans this summer to scrap a controversial Obama-era discipline rule forced on schools to close racial gaps in suspensions and arrests but that critics say pressures educators to turn a blind eye to escalating bad behavior. [read post]
10 Aug 2009, 6:29 am
The 2-1 decision ordered the lower court to certify a class of employees making claims for disparate impact, disparate treatment, and hostile work environment. [read post]
6 Mar 2019, 2:00 am by Lin Grensing-Pophal
One of the factors often cited as contributing to racial and gender disparities in the workplace is discrimination in the hiring process. [read post]
12 Apr 2023, 12:39 pm by Ezra Rosser
Critics highlight how zoning districts that allow only detached, single-family homes exacerbate racial and economic segregation and perpetuate wealth disparities. [read post]