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Diversity among officers lags behind the general population. But is police culture a greater problem when it comes to combating excessive force?
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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Professor of Journalism, Michigan State University
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Assistant Professor of Criminal Justice and Criminology, Georgia State University
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Assistant Professor, Augusta University
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Assistant Professor of Justice Studies and Sociology, Norwich University
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Visiting Lecturer, Faculty of Law, Western University
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Assistant Professor in Media Studies, University of Colorado Boulder
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Indigenist Health Humanities Academic Director, Queensland University of Technology
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Professor of Indigenous Health, Executive Director, Carumba Institute, Queensland University of Technology
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Assistant professor in the Department of Government, The University of Texas at Austin
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