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FBI statistics recorded a 30% rise in homicides in 2020. A criminologist helps break down what was behind the spike.
Attempts to reform US police departments fail when they are unable to get community support. Perhaps it is time to take a different tack, argue two criminal justice scholars – one a former cop.
A political scientist says the protests against police violence that have swept the US signal welcome social change – and could dramatically alter the work she’s done for five years.
What will it take to change a brutal and militaristic style of policing in America? Political will.
Research shows how politics can easily halt reforms that require time to take effect.
When politicians win by stoking nationalism and isolationism, who will be brave enough to walk the harder path?
Will the candidates acknowledge the Black Lives Matter platform during the debate in St. Louis? Millennial voters will be listening.
People risk being physically harmed during violent protests. But there is also an emotional element at play.
Violent cops are just playing by the rules American society has created for them. It’s time to change the rules.
An unfinished crime novel was a strange portent of recent events in Dallas.
Reform of police departments must include a reexamination of why cops and civilians come in contact so frequently in the first place.
As the debate spreads from Missouri to universities across the country, insights from The Conversation’s coverage of race on campus.
Community policing efforts in New Haven and Gainesville offer a stark contrast to military-style policing.
Historically black colleges account for only 3% of all colleges and universities. But, even today, 20% of black Americans earn their degrees at these schools.
Two criminologists long associated with the University of Missouri – St Louis dispel myths about Ferguson, a community that borders the campus, and explain what’s behind the violent protests there.
One year on from Ferguson, the message of Martin Luther King’s Letter from a Birmingham Jail could not be more relevant.
A movement grew out of Michael Brown’s death one year ago. The people in #BlackLivesMatter want us to fully witness violence against black youth. Their tools are cell phones and social media.
What is the experience of white students when racial issues are being taught in classrooms? Are we missing engaging an essential part of diversity?
Black students get suspended or expelled at a rate three times greater than white students. The cost: they fall behind in school, and the cycle of poverty and failure is perpetuated.
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Professor of Management, University of Essex
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Founders Professor of Criminology and Criminal Justice, University of Missouri-St. Louis
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Professor of Religion, Drake University
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Professor of Practice, Department of Journalism and Cmmunication, Lehigh University
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Professor of Sociology, Rice University
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Professor of Psychology, Iowa State University
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Assistant Professor, School of Social Service Administration, University of Chicago
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Associate Dean of Graduate Studies and Associate Professor of Criminal Justice, Texas Christian University
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Assistant Professor of Public Policy, University of Michigan
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Professor of Law, Georgia State University
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Assistant Professor, Department of Political Science, University of Washington
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Associate Professor of Education and of African & African-American Studies in Arts & Sciences, Washington University in St. Louis
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Associate Professor of History, University of Pittsburgh
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Lecturer in American Politics, University College Cork
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Assistant Professor of Politics, Pomona College
