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Reconciling Results on Racial Differences in Police Shootings
Fryer, Roland G, Jr - 2018
Police use of force - particularly lethal force - is one of the most divisive issues of the twenty-first century. To understand the nexus of race, criminal justice, and police brutality, academics and journalists have begun to amass impressive datasets on Officer-Involved-Shootings (OIS). I...
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After the Burning : The Economic Effects of the 1921 Tulsa Race Massacre
Albright, Alex; Cook, Jeremy A.; Feigenbaum, James J.; … - National Bureau of Economic Research - 2021
The 1921 Tulsa Race Massacre resulted in the looting, burning, and leveling of 35 square blocks of a once-thriving Black neighborhood. Not only did this lead to severe economic loss, but the massacre also sent a warning to Black individuals across the country that similar events were possible in...
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Did Violence Against Asian-Americans Rise in 2020? : Evidence from a Novel Approach to Measuring Potentially Racially-Motivated Attacks
Knorre, Aleksei; Tiem, Britte van; Chalfin, Aaron - National Bureau of Economic Research - 2024
Did anti-Asian violence rise after the onset of the COVID-19 pandemic? Efforts to answer this question are compromised … studying whether anti-Asian violence rose after March 2020 that addresses each of these concerns. Using data from the FBI …'s National Incident-Based Reporting System, we study inter-race violence occurring in public spaces. While public violence …
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An Empirical Analysis of Racial Differences in Police Use of Force
Fryer, Roland G, Jr - 2016
This paper explores racial differences in police use of force. On non-lethal uses of force, blacks and Hispanics are more than fifty percent more likely to experience some form of force in interactions with police. Adding controls that account for important context and civilian behavior reduces,...
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Racial Bias in Motor Vehicle Searches : Theory and Evidence
Knowles, John - 1999
African- American motorist in the United States are much more likely than white motorists to have their car searched by police checking for illegal drugs and other contraband. The courts are faced with the task of deciding on the basis of traffic-search data whether police behavior reflects a...
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The Impact of Race on Policing, Arrest Patterns, and Crime
Donohue, John J, III. - 1998
Race has long been recognized as playing a critical role in policing. In spite of this awareness, there has been virtually no previous research attempting to quantitatively analyze the issue. In this paper, we examine the relationship between the racial composition of a city's police force and...
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A Statistical Analysis of Crime Against Foreigners in Unified Germany
Krueger, Alan B. - 1996
Germany has experienced a high and rising rate of anti-foreigner violence during the early 1990s. To analyze the … based on newspaper reports. We find significant differences in the patterns of violence in the eastern and western parts of …
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Racial Divisions and Criminal Justice : Evidence from Southern State Courts
Feigenberg, Benjamin - 2018
The US criminal justice system is exceptionally punitive. We test whether racial heterogeneity is one cause, exploiting cross-jurisdiction variation in criminal justice practices in four Southern states. We estimate the causal effect of jurisdiction on initial charge outcome, validating our...
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The Impact of Jury Race in Criminal Trials
Anwar, Shamena - 2010
This paper examines the impact of jury racial composition on trial outcomes using a unique data set of felony trials in Florida between 2000 and 2010. We utilize a research design that exploits day-to-day variation in the composition of the <i>jury pool</i> to isolate quasi-random variation in the...
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The Effects of School Desegregation on Crime
Weiner, David A. - 2009
One of the most striking features of crime in America is its disproportionate concentration in disadvantaged, racially segregated communities, which has long raised concern that segregation itself may contribute to criminal behavior. Yet little is known about whether government efforts to reduce...
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