On this page you will find a sampling of resources related to Systemic Racism and Criminal Justice, broken down into the following sections:
Issues in Criminal Justice: Broken-Windows Policing, Criminalized Economies, Criminalization of Poverty, Domestic Terror, Excessive Force, Felon Disenfranchisement, Geospatial Policing, Hate Crimes, Housing Assignments, Juvenile Detention, Mass Incarceration, Migrant Detention, Militarization, Missing Persons, Murder, Over Policing, Predictive Policing, Prison Labor, Private Prison Proliferation, Punishment, Qualified Immunity, Racial Profiling, School Suspensions, Solitary Confinement, State Violence, Under Policing
Keywords for Social Justice/Anti-Oppression Searches: Anti-Black, Association Between, Bias, Discrimination, Disparity, Disproportionate, Effect, Gap, High Rate, Impact, Inequity, Inequality, Institutionalized Racism, Oppression, Racial Inequity, Racist, Racism, Unconscious Bias, Violence, White Supremacy
Source: AJ+ (2021, April 20). Why It’s So Hard To Convict Police Officers. YouTube. https://youtu.be/ULfIzLlBIBg
Source: AJ+ (2020, December 16). Why Black Neighborhoods Have More Police Than Others. YouTube. https://youtu.be/hC0ZgtIKe48
Source: Vox. (2020, June 25). Why America's police look like soldiers. YouTube. https://youtu.be/KOAOVbyfjA0
Source: Global Citizen (2018, September 21). Here's the problem with the cash bail system. YouTube. https://youtu.be/Aao0q593DoI
Source: The Atlantic. (2015, September 14). The Enduring Myth of Black Criminality. YouTube. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cQo-yYhExw0
Source: The New Yorker. (2016, March 1). The Epidemic of Mass Incarceration in the United States. YouTube. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Dyp7iAvnYWY
Source: AJ+ (2018, November 20). Deaf, Black And A Victim Of Police Brutality. YouTube. https://youtu.be/9Rkctxo_LQI
Source: Origin of Everything. (2019, April 23). Why Do We Have Private Prisons? YouTube. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OwVEL7d3NsM
Source: AJ+. (2021, March 12). ‘I Shouted For Help, But Nobody Helped Me’: Asian Americans Are Under Attack. YouTube. https://youtu.be/pKaRbKKYVnA
Source: AJ+ (2020, July 25). The Criminal Justice System Has a Mental Health Crisis. YouTube. https://youtu.be/1n_YFhQRU_0
Episode: Tasers Kill
Episode: Minimally Adequate
Episode: Black, Incarcerated, and Trans
Episode: Louisiana's Former Death Row is Now Holding Kids
Episode: The Terror of Policing
Episode: Telling Stories of State Violence & Public Silence
Episode: Violence That Doesn't Go Viral
Episode: Women, Prison, and the Criminal Justice System
Episode: The History of Policing in America
Episode: Why Is It So Hard to Hold Police Accountable?
Episode: Occupiers Of Our Community
Episode: Systems That Protect the Police
Episode: American Police
Ear Hustle brings you the daily realities of life inside prison shared by those living it, and stories from the outside, post-incarceration.
This award-winning and Peabody-nominated podcast documents how locals are addressing the role of jails in their backyards.
Through comprehensive reporting, MPR News examines this intersection of race, policing, justice and safety in America.
Episode: Juvenile (In)Justice
Episode: When They See Her: The Story of Michelle Cusseaux
In Caught: The Lives of Juvenile Justice, we hear from kids about the moment they collided with law and order, and how it changed them forever.
Charged | A True Punishment Story brings you a fight to transform one big-city justice system.
Beyond Prisons is a podcast on justice, mass incarceration, and prison abolition.
Episode: Perceived Threat
Episode: School to Prison Pipeline
Episode: Decriminalizing the War on Drugs
Episode: Why the FBI Ignores White Supremacist Violence
Episode: ICE Capades
Episode: What Will End Police Violence?
Episode: Why Police Reform Fails
Episode: It Was Always White Supremacy
Episode: Prison Abolition
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