Why do (some) city police departments enforce federal immigration law?
2012 study in Journal of Public Administration Research about variation in local enforcement of immigration laws.
Research roundups, tip sheets, articles and explainers related to the topics of race and gender
2012 study in Journal of Public Administration Research about variation in local enforcement of immigration laws.
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2012 study by the University of Southern Mississippi in the journal Politics and Religion on religion and politics in the Latino community.
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2012 study from the Pew Research Center on how the American demographic landscape is seeing increasing numbers of areas segregated by income.
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2012 report from a University of Michigan-affiliated policy center that examines how laws promoting women’s opportunities in sports are being adopted.
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2012 paper from the University of Pennsylvania, University of Chicago and Harvard University on defendant race and unequal sentencing decisions.
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2011 study in Political Behavior showing how minorities frequently receive less in-person contacts, and how this explains different voter participation rates.
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2012 report from the U.S. Census Bureau providing a picture of how demographic on race and ethnicity are shifting across the United States.
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2012 study in Public Opinion Quarterly on evidence that citizens have more knowledge of local and national politics than scholars previously believed.
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2012 study from the University of Southern California and University of Texas on peer influence and teenage smoking habits among Hispanic high school students.
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2012 study from Harvard and Yale in PLoS One on the increase in stress-related cardiovascular problems related to women’s workplace environment.
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