Healing the Blind Goddess: Race and Criminal Justice

Race and criminal-justice attitudes – 1 Running Head: RACE AND CRIMINAL-JUSTICE ATTITUDES Race and Support for the Criminal Justice System: A Matter of Asymmetry

Gender and Race Differences in Criminal Justice Processing*? Rosemary

Synchs-The tmportance of gender and race as critical vartables in cnmmal ~ustxe system processmg IS htghhghted ut thts article These processes influence women and minority ractai groups as vtctims and as offenders. The article addresses the situatton tn the Ututed States between 1970 and 1985 prtmarily, but the focus on gender and race has appbcatton to many other countries Foliowtng a bnef hts...

Dangerousness and Criminal Justice

Urban Crime, Race, and the Criminal Justice System in the United States

The impact of crime on general welfare is profound. Those most directly impacted are the victims of crime. By one estimate, the combination of direct monetary losses and the costs of pain and suffering among crime victims in the United States amounts to 0.5–0.7 percent of GDP (Freeman 1996). Beyond these direct costs are substantial indirect costs associated with reducing the threat of crime. I...

Structuring and Recreating Inequality: Health Testing Policies, Race, and the Criminal Justice System

Research shows that prison inmates have a higher risk of contracting HIV/AIDS than the general population, prompting widespread measures aimed at diagnosing, quarantining, and treating inmates. Yet, recent scholarship has linked the release inmates to an increase in the HIV incidence rate of various communities. In this paper we explore the disjuncture between institutional policies and potenti...