Past Resources of the Week
ROTW: Race and Punishment: Racial Perceptions of Crime and Support for Punitive Policies
Monday, September 22, 2014
- Sentencing Project
- Link: http://www.reentry.net
Race and Punishment: Racial Perceptions of Crime and Support for Punitive Policies, authored by Nazgol Ghandnoosh, Ph.D., synthesizes two decades of research revealing that white Americans’ strong association of crime with blacks and Latinos is related to their support for punitive policies that disproportionately impact people of color.
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