Child-support policies that are color-blind or race-neutral put low-income men of color and their families at a disadvantage and lead to continued racial inequities, according to Rutgers research.
Economics & Business
Jun 13, 2022
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There are approximately four million people on probation or parole at any given time in the United States, nearly double the number of people incarcerated in the nation's jails and prisons. Yet, despite the fact that community ...
Social Sciences
Dec 8, 2016
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Adversarial encounters with police have a powerful negative effect on black men's mental health, as do efforts to avoid such encounters, according to a study from a team at the George Washington University.
Social Sciences
Feb 10, 2020
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For nearly 50 years, the incarceration rate in the U.S. has grown at an exponential rate. Today, the U.S. has the largest prison population in the world. Incarceration is especially common in poor communities of color where ...
Social Sciences
Oct 14, 2021
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Overflowing prison populations and high rates of violent crime once made New York City a metaphor for the urban decay confronting America's cities. But over the last two decades crime in the nation's largest city has declined ...
Social Sciences
Oct 31, 2016
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Long known as the world's biggest jailer, the United States is experimenting with prison reform. California's prison downsizing experiment is the nation's largest. But Republican states are the ones leading the way, according ...
Social Sciences
Mar 2, 2016
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There's a stark and troubling way that incarceration diminishes the ability of a former inmate to empathize with a loved one behind bars, but existing sociological theories fail to capture it, Vanderbilt University sociologists ...
Social Sciences
Jun 2, 2016
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More than 4,100 people are currently serving time behind the walls of California's prisons for women. Activist Jayda Rasberry was once one of them.
Social Sciences
Oct 18, 2023
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While proud classmates bring parents to school for Career Day, kids with imprisoned dads incur a double whammy: They are significantly more likely to be held back to repeat a grade, a Cornell and University of California, ...
Social Sciences
Sep 19, 2014
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Private prisons are a particularly hot topic these days, the setting of the Netflix dramedy Orange is the New Black and the subject of a recent 35,000-word Mother Jones exposé, in which a reporter went undercover as a corrections ...
Social Sciences
Jul 15, 2016
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