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Racial disparities in incarceration

  • 1.  Racial disparities in incarceration

    Posted 10-20-2017 12:53

    Below is a recent item discussing the mistaken belief that generally reducing adverse criminal justice outcomes will tend to reduce relative racial differences in rates of experiencing the outcomes.  This is a subject discussed in a number of things I have posted here in recent years.  The concluding paragraphs discuss my efforts to have ASA explain this matter to the government. 

    "The Pernicious Misunderstanding of Effects or Policies on Racial Differences in Criminal Justice Outcomes," Federalist Society Blog (Oct. 12, 2017) 
    https://fedsoc.org/commentary/blog-posts/the-pernicious-misunderstanding-of-effects-of-policies-on-racial-differences-in-criminal-justice-outcomes

     

     



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    James Scanlan
    James P. Scanlan Attorney At Law
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