Resources for Project Sites
Implicit Bias/Racial Justice
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Homelessness
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Related Publications
Disproportionate Minority Contact: Current Issues and Policies, discusses policies and practices that unintentionally draw a greater number of youth of color into the juvenile justice system and features a chapter written by The Sentencing Project's Research Analyst Ashley Nellis.
"Race, Crime and Punishment: Breaking the Connection in America" A Collection of Essays explores how race, crime and punishment are linked in the public mind, and strategies to reduce
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Do Judges Vary in Their Treatment of Race? Nellco Legal Scholarship Repository Publication by David S. Abrams, Marianne Bertrand, and Sendhil Mullainathan. PROBATION INTAKE OFFICERS HARSHER ON BLACK YOUTH
In their study “Does the Gender of the Intake Probation Officer Contextualize the Treatment of Black Youth?” authors Michael Leiber and Sarah Jane Brubaker found that racial bias played a larger role than the gender or individual characteristics of the decision maker when diversion choices were made within the juvenile justice system. |
Executive Director of the Sentencing Project Marc Mauer's article "Sentencing Reform: Amid Mass Incarceration, Guarded Optimism," appears in the current issue of the American Bar Association's Criminal Justice Magazine. New studies analyze data on the processing of felony defendants in large urban centers, and find racial disparity: Racial and Ethnic Differences in Pretrial Release Decisions and Outcomes: A Comparison of Hispanic, Black, and White Felony Arrestees By Stepthen Demuth.
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Contacts
Center for Court Innovation (CCI)
Courtney Bryan
Project Director
Midtown Community Court
314 W 54th Street
New York, NY 10019
(646) 264-1302 (p)
(212) 586-1144 (f)
[email protected]
The PEW Charitable Trusts
901 E Street, NW
Washington, DC 20004
202.552.2000 (p)
202.552.2299 (f)
[email protected]
Courtney Bryan
Project Director
Midtown Community Court
314 W 54th Street
New York, NY 10019
(646) 264-1302 (p)
(212) 586-1144 (f)
[email protected]
The PEW Charitable Trusts
901 E Street, NW
Washington, DC 20004
202.552.2000 (p)
202.552.2299 (f)
[email protected]