Prosecutors’ Race, Class Bias May Not Drive Criminal Justice Disparities
Wednesday, January 22, 2020 - 10:10
in Mathematics & Economics
America’s prison populations are disproportionately filled with people of color, but prosecutors’ biases toward defendants’ race and class may not be the primary cause for those disparities, new research from the University of Arizona suggests. The finding, which comes from a unique study involving hundreds of prosecutors across the U.S., counters decades’ worth of previous […]