A parental paradox for Black girls in the justice system
For Black girls in the juvenile justice system, attention from a caregiver might amount to too much of a bad thing, a recent study suggests.
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Mar 4, 2021
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Social psychologist offers key to ending racism
Social psychologist Robert Livingston has spent decades studying racism and advising businesses and nonprofits how to confront it in their workplaces. In a new book, "The Conversation: How Seeking and Speaking the Truth About ...
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Feb 23, 2021
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Racism and anti-gay discrimination heighten risk for arrest and incarceration
New research by Morgan Philbin, Ph.D., at Columbia University Mailman School of Public Health and colleagues looks at why Black young men who have sex with men (YMSM) are disproportionately subject to high rates of arrest ...
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Feb 9, 2021
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Why rape victims are so often left to solve their own cases
Case Western Reserve University researchers examine how the 'bureaucratic burden' of taking rapists off the streets can impede justice—often for society's most vulnerable
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Feb 8, 2021
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Addressing power differences may spur advantaged racial groups to act for racial equality
When different groups of people come into contact, what's the key to motivating advantaged racial groups to join historically disadvantaged racial minority groups to strive for racial equality and social justice? It's a complex ...
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Feb 2, 2021
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Study aims to break the chains of incarceration in African American males
Over the last three decades, the United States prison population has exploded from 300,000 to more than 2 million. More than 1.1 million are African American men—the vast number of whom have returned within one to three ...
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Feb 2, 2021
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Even one arrest can delay a millennial's entry into homeownership, study shows
Getting arrested even once can keep a millennial from buying a home as quickly as peers with no arrest history, according to new research from a Rice University sociologist.
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Jan 20, 2021
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Sociologist details how, why privilege plays role in criminal courts
A chance encounter five years ago in a Chicago-area courtroom altered the course of sociologist Matthew Clair's academic life. While a graduate student researching the criminal justice system, Clair and a colleague often ...
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Dec 29, 2020
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Sights set on curbing gun crime
A community or sub-culture encouraging young men's exposure and obsession with guns—as well as ready access to firearms and drugs—can make gun violence 'all too easy," with Flinders University experts promoting a new ...
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Dec 15, 2020
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Restorative justice preferred among the Enga in Papua New Guinea
All human groups create systems for regulating cultural norms to maintain cooperation in society. Most large-scale populations employ a punitive judicial system where a third party doles out punishment. Yet, there's little ...
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Dec 10, 2020
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