Native Youth Navigate Complex, Contradictory Jurisdictions
Calah Schlabach, José-Ignacio Castañeda Perez, Matthew Hendley and Layne DowdallUnlike other children, Native American children can be tried and sentenced in tribal, state or federal justice systems. Once they make contact with the justice system, Native youth face unique complications that many don’t understand[.]
The Troubling Alliance Between Feminism and Policing
Aya GruberMy intent is not to cast aspersions on feminism or even “White feminism” but, in the vein of James Forman Jr.’s Locking Up Our Own and Naomi Murakawa’s, The First Civil Right, to tell a complex story of feminism’s relationship to the American penal state so that we feminists can, in Murakawa’s words, “reexamine the scaffolding beneath our explanations for mass incarceration” in order to better fight it.
Juveniles in Criminal Proceedings
Fatos HaziriThis paper is of a combined character; summary and research, as it contains comparisons and research in a critical way, so it includes content and important psychological aspects of criminal actions that lead the juvenile person to conflict with the law, including factors which directly or indirectly affect this category of society to be involved in criminal activity.
Do Black Injuries Matter?: Implicit Bias and Jury Decision Making in Tort Cases
Jonathan Cardi, Valerie P. Hans and Gregory ParksThis study is one of the first comprehensive experimental examinations of how race affects judgments of tort injuries.
Berkeley To Become the First US City To De-Cop Traffic Enforcement
Kea WilsonThe California city of Berkeley will become the first in the United States to take police officers out of traffic enforcement and replace them with unarmed employees of a newly formed Department of Transportation.
Election 2020: “What if?” Workshop
Lauren KlosinskiOn Thursday, Sept. 3, The National Press Club Journalism Institute is hosting “Election 2020: “What if?” a free virtual workshop tackling important topics surrounding the November election.