Diversity among officers lags behind the general population. But is police culture a greater problem when it comes to combating excessive force?
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Former New York Mayor Michael Bloomberg apologized for his city’s ‘stop-and-frisk’ police strategy. Two criminologists argue it isn’t necessarily inherently racist – though New York’s program was.
Muslims make up 9% of France’s population and half of all its prisoners – many convicted on drug charges. But social justice isn’t part of the country’s growing debate on legalization.
Half a century after the federal government voided Jim Crow laws, the criminal justice system still discriminates against African Americans.
Crime data reflect only what crimes are identified by the police – not all the crimes that occur. So decisions based on crime data are necessarily biased and incompletely informed.
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Assistant Professor of Criminal Justice and Criminology, Georgia State University
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John and Elizabeth Bates Cowles Professor of Journalism, Diversity, and Equality, University of Minnesota
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Clinical Instructor of Criminal Justice and Criminology, Georgia State University
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Assistant Professor of Justice Studies and Sociology, Norwich University
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Ph.D. Student in Communications, Columbia University
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Professor of Criminology, Head of the School of Law and Criminology, University of Greenwich
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Professor of Indigenous Health; Executive Director, Carumba Institute, Queensland University of Technology
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Ph.D. Candidate in Political Science, Michigan State University
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PhD Candidate, The University of Texas at Austin
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Associate Professor of Sociology, University of Wisconsin-Madison
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Associate Professor of Criminal Justice, St. Edward's University
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Assistant Professor of History, Bard Early College
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Lecturer In Public Policy - Social and Political Sciences, The University of Melbourne
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Indigenist Health Humanities Academic Director, Queensland University of Technology
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Associate Professor, Contemporary Histories Research Group, Deakin University
