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Showing 1 to 9 of 9 for “"Law and Race"”.
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The Impact of Juvenile Offender Race on Public Perception of Crime Seriousness
… at how the public perceives crime seriousness and how race of the juvenile offender impacts the overall seriousness rating. An online survey that included 15 crime scenarios was completed by 176 participants. It was hypothesized that a crime would be rated as more severe when the juvenile …
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Examining Racial and Ethnic Disparity in Prosecutor’s Bail Requests and Downstream Decision Making
<p>Rigorous academic research into prosecutorial and judicial decision making has been taking place for over three decades, but a great deal remains unknown about the mechanics of prosecution. A majority of the work done by prosecutors occurs outside of public view, and most research focuses on the …
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Holding Both: Witness Aid Workers' Experiences Supporting Intimate Partner Violence Survivors in District Attorney Offices
<p>Social workers and advocates practice in district attorney (DA) offices as witness or victim aid workers providing intimate partner violence (IPV) survivors counseling, advocacy, resources and information as they enter the criminal legal system (CLS). Their experiences, in particular how stress …
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Process and Outcome Disparities in NICUs: A Grounded-Theory Study
… NICUs are one of healthcare’s most demanding environments. Persistent neonatal outcome disparities exist in birthweight, mortality, and care quality. Recent studies highlight internal factors—staffing, workflows, policies—and external factors—social determinants of health, prenatal …
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Sweeping Exposures: Lead Poisonings and Black Working Poor Populations in the United States
… impoverished neighborhoods through the idea and mechanism of <em>lead exposure</em>, by recognizing how specific exposure to the element <em>lead</em> and its by-products is both a symbol and a material cause of black urban poor illness and disability. There is no mistake that people living …
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Incentives to Incarcerate: Corporation Involvement in Prison Labor and the Privatization of the Prison System
… disproportionately incarcerates African American and Latino men. This fact on its own is disturbing; however, when it is coupled with the fact that corporations profit from and lobby for an overly aggressive and ineffective criminal justice system, makes these statistics even more horrendous. …
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The Ill-Treatment of Their Countrywoman: Liberated African Women, Violence, and Power in Tortola, 1807–1834
… Navy’s campaign of policing international waters and seizing ships suspected of illegal trading. As the Royal Navy captured slave ships as prizes of war and condemned enslaved Africans to Vice-Admiralty courts, formerly enslaved Africans became “captured negroes” or “liberated Africans,” making …
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A Cleave within the Piney Woods: Nacogdoches, Stephen F. Austin State University and How Racial Integration Divided the Town and Gown
… F. Austin State University was once the pride and joy of the city of Nacogdoches, Texas. When the Texas State Legislature began to look for a location for their new state normal school, the people of the East Texas town fought to have it built there and the Stephen F. Austin Teacher’s College …