The Center for Justice Research (CJR) at Texas Southern University supports innovative, data-driven solutions for the creation of an equitable criminal justice system. CJR is the premier criminal justice research center located ...
Social Sciences
Nov 16, 2020
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When the British politician Dawn Butler was stopped by police while travelling in a friend's car earlier this year, she accused the police of institutional racism. The same thing happened to Olympic athlete Bianca Williams ...
Social Sciences
Nov 16, 2020
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Six days after a prone and restrained George Floyd died under the knee of a Minneapolis police officer, National Security Advisor Robert O'Brien dismissed charges that racism is rampant among police by arguing that "a few ...
Social Sciences
Nov 11, 2020
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Medical student Semir Bulle knows what it's like to live in fear of the police. A child of Ethiopian refugees, he was carded a dozen times in one year while growing up in northwestern Ontario. Bulle says those interactions ...
Social Sciences
Nov 11, 2020
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A growing number of demonstrators taking to the streets to protest police brutality and racial injustice may include teenagers, a new national poll suggests.
Social Sciences
Oct 26, 2020
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On Oct. 15, Toronto police announced that they had finally solved the 1984 murder of Christine Jessop using DNA evidence and genetic genealogy websites. Identifying Calvin Hoover as Jessop's killer has provided immense relief ...
Political science
Oct 23, 2020
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Thousands of police detentions and voluntary interviews of vulnerable people may have been carried out without an "appropriate adult" (AA) present, a report has found.
Social Sciences
Oct 13, 2020
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An examination of racial differences in the disciplining of police officers in three of the largest U.S. cities consistently found that Black officers were more frequently disciplined for misconduct than White officers, despite ...
Social Sciences
Oct 12, 2020
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In many places in the United States, low-level criminal offenses—having an open container, for example, or disorderly conduct—can result in a ticket and a subsequent court date, and failing to show up to that appointed ...
Social Sciences
Oct 8, 2020
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Anew USC report that combines Los Angeles community members' feedback with public safety data on arrests, stops by police and calls for service finds evidence of overpolicing of L.A. communities of color as well as an uptick ...
Social Sciences
Oct 8, 2020
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