Hate crimes and research questions: Examining racial, ethnic and religious bias
2015 review of research and data that speak to issues of hate crimes motivated by bias, with a focus on definitional issues in the United States and patterns abroad.
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Racial bias and news media reporting: New research trends
2015 research from the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign published in Communication Research highlighting how portrayals of racial minorities are changing in television news.
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Boston Marathon bombing: Lessons learned through research
One year after the Boston Marathon bombing, we round up a selection of research-based papers and reports that, cumulatively, help consolidate the “lessons learned.”
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U.S. Department of Justice: Police use of force, Tasers and other weapons
2011 report by the National Institute of Justice on the effectiveness and safety of Tasers and other conducted energy devices.
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The law and social science of stop-and-frisk tactics by the police
2014 study by Yale examining recent scholarship on the effectiveness of “stop, question and frisk” and how it affects public perceptions of and interactions with the police.
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Community-oriented policing strategies: Meta-analysis of law enforcement practices
2014 study in the Journal of Experimental Criminology measuring the effectiveness of community policing in the United States through a quantitative analysis of prior academic studies.
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Exploring the worldviews of young black men in America: Research chat with sociologist Alford A. Young, Jr.
2015 interview with University of Michigan sociologist Alford A. Young Jr., whose work has explored the lives and outlooks of young African-American males.
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Active shooters: U.S. trends and perpetrators’ characteristics
2015 review of FBI statistics and a study in Justice Quarterly showing patterns and trends relating to violence in the United States and the typical characteristics of perpetrators.
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Protests, waves of collective action and policing in the United States: Key research ideas
In the wake of the deaths of Michael Brown and Eric Garner, we review research on the nature of social movements, “waves” of protests and activism cycles, as well as police response.
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Analyzing race, crime and urban violence, after Ferguson: Research perspectives and data
2014 review of empirical data and recent academic studies on important issues related to the African-American community, including trends in crime, homicide and violence rates.
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