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Racial disparities in crime rates, victimization, and incarceration in the United States from 2014 to 2024
Measured by raw counts, more violent incidents in recent datasets involve white offenders simply because white Americans remain the largest ; for example, white juveniles made up 50.3% of juvenile arr...
rs are incarcerated at dramatically higher rates than white Mainers: state and national analyses identify Maine among states where Black residents are imprisoned at roughly nine times (or more) the ra...
per diem or per bed incentivize occupancy rather than rehabilitation, producing weak pressure to fund programming that reduces reoffending . Switching to performance-based contracts—bonuses tied to re...
Contemporary sources caution that the phrase "" is imprecise and often used to deflect from structural causes of violence, and the available crime statistics and scholarship focus on underlying socioe...
A large and diverse body of empirical work documents at multiple stages of — from stops and arrests through charging, , plea bargaining, and sentencing — but scholars disagree about how much of those ...
Federal systems and the academic literature consistently show that the vast majority of murders in the are —victim and offender sharing the same race—but the sources provided here do not contain a sin...