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 […]

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