Contemporary hate crimes, law enforcement and the legacy of racial violence
2009 paper published in the American Sociological Association on links between historical lynching and contemporary hate crimes.
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Neighborhood racial context and perceptions of police-based discrimination
2009 study in the journal Criminology on the racial makeup of neighborhoods and trends in racial profiling.
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U.S. incarceration and correctional population levels: U.S. Justice Department
2011 reports from the U.S. Department of Justice with census of imprisoned and paroled persons.
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Muslim-American terrorism in the decade since 9/11
2012 report from the University of North Carolina on the nature and number of U.S. terrorism incidents and convictions.
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Overview of state anti-bullying legislation and other related laws
2012 report from Harvard’s Berkman Center for Internet and Society on current laws as well as definitions of bullying, prevention strategies, and educational, social and legal responses.
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Lost economic value of unemployed or underemployed youth
2012 study on the financial implications of an underutilized youth population.
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Percentage of named offenders on the registry at the time of the assault: Reports from sexual assault survivors
2012 study published in Violence Against Women journal on the effectiveness of sexual-registry laws on preventing sexual assaults and aiding investigations.
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Quantifying global transfers of copyrighted content using BitTorrent
2011 study from Carnegie-Mellon University on BitTorrent online downloads of copyrighted material.
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Federal report: Prescription drug abuse, 2011
2011 federal government-sponsored research on prescription-drug use, both of legal and illicit substances, by U.S. adolescents.
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Department of Justice: Capital punishment, 2010 statistical tables
2011 report on prisoner demographics, manner of execution, pardons or sentence commutations and capital punishment trends over time.
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