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Results: 45 Studies on Civil Rights (of 56 total)

Cross-Pressures of Religion and Contact with Gays and Lesbians, and Their Impact on Same-Sex Marriage Opinion

Same-sex marriage and children’s well-being: Research roundup

Impact of Jury Race in Criminal Trials

Creating “No Excuses” (Traditional) Public Schools: Preliminary Evidence from an Experiment in Houston

Economic Burdens of Health Inequalities in the United States

Witnesses in Action: The Effect of Physical Exertion on Recall and Recognition

U.S. Justice Department: Does Neighborhood Watch Reduce Crime?

Contemporary Hate Crimes, Law Enforcement and the Legacy of Racial Violence

Neighborhood Racial Context and Perceptions of Police-Based Racial Discrimination of Black Youth

End of the Segregated Century: Racial Separation in America’s Neighborhoods, 1890-2010

Political Norms and the Private Act of Voting

Department of Justice: Capital Punishment, 2010 Figures

Sexism and Gender Inequality Across 57 Societies

Educational and Psychological Outcomes Between LGBTQ and Straight Students in Middle and High School

Meta-Analysis of College Diversity Experiences and Civic Engagement

Impact of Juvenile Curfew Laws on Arrests of Youth and Adults

United States Voting Law Changes in 2012

Racial Disparities in Health: How Much Does Stress Really Matter?

Obama, Racial Prejudice, and the 2008 Presidential Vote

Black Gender Gap in Educational Attainment: Historical Trends and Racial Comparisons

ID at the Polls: Assessing the Impact of Recent State Voter ID Laws on Voter Turnout

International Socialization and the Diffusion of Human Rights Norms

Head Start Impact: Department of Health and Human Services Report

Wealth Gaps Rise to Record Highs Among Whites, Blacks and Hispanics

Women in the Federal Government: Ambitions and Achievements

Right-wing extremism in Europe and beyond: Research roundup

Equal Opportunity Objectification? The Sexualization of Men and Women on the Cover of Rolling Stone

Sexual Identity and Health-Risk Behaviors Among Students in Grades 9-12

Unauthorized Immigrant Population: National and State Trends, 2011

Watchdog or Lapdog? Media Freedom, Regime Type and Government Respect for Human Rights

U.S. Department of Justice: Police Use of Force, Tasers and Other Less-Lethal Weapons

U.S. Government Accountability Office: 2011 Report on Criminal Alien Statistics

Escaping Affect: How Motivated Emotion Regulation Creates Insensitivity to Mass Suffering

Same-sex marriage: Research roundup

Domestic Violence, Exploitation in Marriage, and the Foreign-Bride Industry

How Summer Programs Can Boost Children’s Learning

Displaced and Dispossessed of Darfur: Explaining Sources of Genocide

Collective Efficacy and Major Depression in Urban Neighborhoods

How Ideology Predicts Attitudes toward Immigrants

Greater Transparency in Death Penalty Decisions

U.S. Human Trafficking Incidents, 2008-2010

Facts about Sexual Violence in the United States

WHO Report on Sexual Violence Worldwide

Family Income and Child Brain Growth

Politicized Places: When Immigrants Provoke Opposition

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