Covering criminal courts amid COVID-19: 6 tips for journalists
Criminal justice experts offer journalists six tips for covering changes U.S. courts are making to keep the public safe while criminal cases move forward during the coronavirus crisis.
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COVID-19 school closings and child abuse reports: Research exposes dangerous link
Research suggests school closings amid the coronavirus pandemic have reduced the reporting of child abuse to authorities.
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Youth incarceration fell when California required counties to pay more for juvenile detention: New research
California counties hardly had any financial ties to state juvenile facilities before a 1996 law.
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At protests that draw counter-protesters, people on the left more likely to face arrest
In analyzing 64 U.S. protests from 2017 and 2018 where counter-protesters were present and arrests were made, York University sociologist Lesley Wood finds right-leaning protesters account for 8% of total arrests while left-leaning protesters account for 81% of arrests.
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The 10 most popular Journalist’s Resource posts of 2020
As it turns out, 2020 has been an enormous news year — extraordinarily overwhelming, relentless and historic.
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4 in 10 Black sexual minority men have faced police discrimination, survey analysis finds
A new survey of more than 1,000 Black sexual minority men from across the U.S. finds 43% have faced police discrimination, which was associated with participants being less willing to take potentially life-saving HIV medication.
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Qualified immunity: 4 data-driven analyses of the doctrine that sometimes shields police from misconduct lawsuits
Authors of these four law review articles analyze thousands of qualified immunity suits. They find the doctrine powerful, but rarely used.
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Deaths in police custody in the United States: Research review
We summarized studies that look at deaths in police custody from multiple angles, including restraint methods and police force demographics.
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Study: Trump’s support for police served as ‘dog whistle’ to voters with racial resentment
A new study reveals that voicing support for police can be a “dog whistle” politicians use to appeal to U.S. voters threatened by challenges to America’s racial status quo.
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Uncovering the US prisoner transfer system and alleviating coronavirus outbreaks in prisons: Q and A with Emma Kaufman
NYU law professor Emma Kaufman breaks down open-records requests she filed in every U.S. state, offering a previously unseen glimpse into the nation’s prisoner transfer system.
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