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Federal reporting and recent research show persistent racial disparities in U.S. homicide victimization and offending: Bureau of Justice Statistics (BJS) data finds the Black homicide victimization ra...
Recent, high-quality work through 2024–2025 shows observed U.S. sexual recidivism is substantially lower than many public assumptions: pooled routine-sample estimates commonly fall in the single digit...
Major peer-reviewed and policy research finds U.S. news media routinely misrepresents race in crime coverage: television and print over‑represent minority suspects, use mugshots and custodial images o...
Raw arrest and victimization counts show Black Americans are overrepresented in many criminal-justice metrics relative to their share of the U.S. population, but those counts do not by themselves prov...
A felony conviction in the United States can result in loss of voting rights for millions, but the scope and duration of that disenfranchisement vary dramatically by state and over time; recent analys...
Black Americans experience significantly higher incarceration rates due to a combination of , with multiple analyses reporting incarceration rates roughly four-to-six times those of white Americans. R...
Available sources show persistent racial disparities in arrests, convictions and sentencing, with Black people arrested and incarcerated at higher rates than White people even after some statistical c...
Federal repositories document prosecution, sentencing and post-conviction outcomes in detail, but publicly available datasets that follow child sexual abuse material (CSAM) from initial identification...
The FBI’s published 2024 national rates put the violent‑crime rate at about 359.1 per 100,000 residents and the property‑crime rate at about 1,760.1 per 100,000 residents for 2024 (FBI summary reporte...
Racial bias in policing and arrest practices materially shapes reported crime statistics by inflating arrest rates for Black and Latinx people relative to their actual offending as measured by surveys...
Black and Hispanic people face the largest and most consistent racial disparities in arrests and convictions for drug offenses and for low‑level “quality‑of‑life” crimes—disparities that cannot be ful...
Trump’s most tangible criminal-justice legacy was the bipartisan First Step Act, which produced measurable reductions in the federal prison population through sentence-shortening and early-release mec...
Research summaries and policy briefs cited in recent reporting show that prison sentences — especially long terms — produce limited deterrent effects and can sometimes increase future offending; the N...
Recent reporting and research show a substantial Black–white incarceration gap, but the size varies by measure and year: several Prison Policy Initiative pieces report that nationally Black people are...
Mass incarceration remains a central U.S. policy crisis: national counts hover around “nearly 2 million” people locked up and reforms have cut drug-prisoning but not ended mass incarceration . Major a...
Research across the provided analyses attributes low crime rates in top-ranked states to a mix of rather than purely punitive policing or high incarceration. Reports emphasize that correlate with lowe...
LGBTQ+ people are disproportionately arrested and incarcerated because intersecting policing practices and socioeconomic marginalization—homelessness, poverty, employment discrimination, and survival ...
Federal and state punishment for child sexual abuse material (CSAM) has hardened over recent decades—resulting in longer statutory and imposed sentences in many jurisdictions—while measured recidivism...
Multiple U.S. studies and policy reviews find that targeted changes — limiting pretextual traffic stops, shrinking the scale of low‑level policing, sentencing and bail reforms, and strong federal over...
The available reporting does not produce a single, authoritative national tally of every person released from U.S. prisons during the COVID-19 pandemic, but multiple reputable sources document large-s...