Race and Crime in America
Ep 19: As the country faces a crisis in race and justice, the cases we discuss today have helped bring our attention to some of the most significant injustices and important issues, but do we know the whole story and even when we do,
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Ep 19: As the country faces a crisis in race and justice, the cases we discuss today have helped bring our attention to some of the most significant injustices and important issues, but do we know the whole story and even when we do, what can we do about it? In today's episode, we use the stories of females to explore both the problems and some of the possible solutions to racism in our criminal justice system.
Sources Cited for this episode:
Bureau of Justice Statistics, FBI’s Uniform Crime Report, Sentencing Project: Report to the UN on Racial Disparities in the US Criminal Justice System, New York Times, National Registry of Exonerations, The Innocence Project
Recommended readings:
Why Are All the Black Kids Sitting Together in the Cafeteria? And Other Conversations About Race/Beverley Daniel Tatum/2017
White Rage/Carol Anderson/2017
The New Jim Crow: Mass Incarceration in the Age of Colorblindness/Michelle Alexander/2010
Just Mercy/Bryan Stevenson/2014
Recommended Documentaries:
13th
When They See Us
Gideon’s Army
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Keywords: Jim Crow Laws, Mass Incarceration, Police Tactics, Degeria Becton, Sandra Bland, Regina Kelly,
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