Criminal Justice and Corrections
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
Video Clips
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
Books
Podcasts
The Takeaway
Episode: Tasers Kill
Deliberate Indifference
Episode: Minimally Adequate
At Liberty
Episode: Black, Incarcerated, and Trans
At Liberty
Episode: Louisiana's Former Death Row is Now Holding Kids
In The Thick
Episode: The Terror of Policing
Intersectionality Matters
Episode: Telling Stories of State Violence & Public Silence
Code Switch
Episode: Violence That Doesn't Go Viral
Speaking of Racism
Episode: Women, Prison, and the Criminal Justice System
Humanity Archive
Episode: The History of Policing in America
At Liberty
Episode: Why Is It So Hard to Hold Police Accountable?
In the Thick
Episode: Occupiers Of Our Community
The Daily
Episode: Systems That Protect the Police
Throughline: American Police
Episode: American Police
Ear Hustle
Ear Hustle brings you the daily realities of life inside prison shared by those living it, and stories from the outside, post-incarceration.
70 Million
This award-winning and Peabody-nominated podcast documents how locals are addressing the role of jails in their backyards.
74 Seconds
Through comprehensive reporting, MPR News examines this intersection of race, policing, justice and safety in America.
The Reveal
Episode: Juvenile (In)Justice
Intersectionality Matters
Episode: When They See Her: The Story of Michelle Cusseaux
Caught
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
Charged | A True Punishment Story brings you a fight to transform one big-city justice system.
Beyond Prisons
Beyond Prisons is a podcast on justice, mass incarceration, and prison abolition.
On Our Watch
Episode: Perceived Threat
Justice in America
Episode: School to Prison Pipeline
Latino USA
Episode: Decriminalizing the War on Drugs
At Liberty
Episode: Why the FBI Ignores White Supremacist Violence
This American Life
Episode: ICE Capades
At Liberty
Episode: What Will End Police Violence?
The Reveal
Episode: Why Police Reform Fails
In the Thick
Episode: It Was Always White Supremacy
Doin The Work
Episode: Prison Abolition
Articles
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- (2023) It never stops’: killings by US police reach record high in 2022 | Gaurdian
- (2023) The Crackdown on Cop City Protesters Is So Brutal Because of the Movement’s Success | Intercept
- (2023) ‘Get Your Hands Off Me’: Student Arrest Puts Role of School Police Under Scrutiny | New York Times
- (2023) LAPD Held Down Keenan Anderson, Repeatedly Tased Him — Then Suggested His Death Was His Own Fault| Intercept
- (2023) Tyre Nichols was 'defenseless' during his 'savage' beating by police, attorneys say | NPR
- (2021) Still Can’t Breathe | ProPublica
- (2020) Policing Is An 'Avatar Of American Racism,' Marshall Project Journalist Says | NPR
- (2023) Louisville officer who killed Breonna Taylor hired by police force in nearby county | NPR
- (2023) What $28 Million Bought the Memphis Police Department | Intercept
- (2022) 8 officers involved in shooting death of Jayland Walker return to work at Akron Police Department | News5 Cleveland
- (2022) Calls grow for a tougher legal approach to white nationalist group Patriot Front| NPR
- (2021) Over 700 Complaints About NYPD Officers Abusing Black Lives Matter Protesters, Then Silence | ProPublica
- (2021) White supremacists 'seek affiliation' with law enforcement to further their goals, internal FBI report warns | ABC News
- (2021) How Police Handled Pro-Trump Mob Compared With Protesters For Black Racial Justice | NPR
- (2021) Qualified Immunity Protection for Police Emerges as Flash Point Amid Protests | New York Times
- (2020) How Cops Who Use Force and Even Kill Can Hide Their Names From the Public | ProPublica
- (2020) LMPD Releases Nearly Blank Report From The Night Of Breonna Taylor's Killing | NPR
- (2023) Teens Are Being Sent to Louisiana's Angola Prison and Held on Its Former Death Row | TeenVogue
- (2022) Incarcerated People Forced to Do Dangerous Work for “Slave” Wages at Height of Pandemic | Intercept
- (2022) Local jails are helping drive America’s mass incarceration problem | Vox
- (2022) Health care in jails and prisons is terrible. The pandemic made it even worse. | Vox
- (2022) Five things to know about one of the deadliest federal prisons| NPR
- (2022) Trapped in the Floods | Intercept
- (2021) I Survived 18 Years in Solitary Confinement | New York Times
- (2022) Burning Tires Left Louisiana Prisoners With Migraines, Breathing Problems, and Minimal Medical Care | Intercept
- (2022) Boiling Behind Bars | Intercept
- (2021) Indian Affairs Promised To Reform Tribal Jails. We Found Death, Neglect And Disrepair | NPR
- (2020) Back in Prison, Transgender Woman Faces an Old Horror, Sexual Assault | New York Times
- (2023) ‘Get Your Hands Off Me’: Student Arrest Puts Role of School Police Under Scrutiny | New York Times
- (2023) Illinois 'willfully and wrongly' incarcerated hundreds of children, federal lawsuit alleges | USA Today
- (2022) Some youths in Illinois' foster system who are hard to place are being left in jail | NPR
- (2021) Black Children Were Jailed for a Crime That Doesn’t Exist. Almost Nothing Happened to the Adults in Charge. | ProPublica
- (2021) Trans Youth Could Face Juvenile Detention Under 2021's Worst Anti-Trans Bill | them.
- (2020) Judges Are Locking Up Children for Noncriminal Offenses Like Repeatedly Disobeying Their Parents and Skipping School | ProPublica
- (2021) Many Juvenile Jails Are Now Almost Entirely Filled With Young People of Color | Marshall Project
- (2021) Police violence against children sparks demand for use-of-force laws | NBC News
- (2020) Judges Are Locking Up Children for Noncriminal Offenses Like Repeatedly Disobeying Their Parents and Skipping School | ProPublica
- (2022) How Kansas City Police Ignored Warnings a Killer Targeted Black Women, Until One Escaped| Democracy Now!
- (2022) US finds 500 Native American boarding school deaths so far | AP News
- (2022) Here Are the Trans Americans Killed in 2022 So Far| Advocate.
- (2022) How violence against Asian Americans has grown and how to stop it, according to activists| PBS News Hour
- (2022) One of four Muslim men slain in potentially linked Albuquerque killings remembered as 'brilliant public servant' | CNN
- (2020) The Search For Missing And Murdered Indigenous Women | NPR
- (2019) What's Behind The Killings Of Several Black Trans Women In Dallas? | NPR
- (2022) The Border Patrol Is Systemically Failing to Count Migrant Deaths | Intercept
- (2021) ICE Discussed Punishing Immigrant Advocates for Peaceful Protests | Intercept
- (2018) A Mother Describes Her Experience In Migrant Detention | NPR
- (2021) First migrant facility for children opens under Biden | Washington Post
- (2021) HHS Is Cutting Safety Corners to Move Migrant Kids Out of Overcrowded Facilities | ProPublica
- (2021) The People We Left Behind: How Closing A Dangerous Border Camp Adds to Inequities | ProPublica
- (2020) Nurse at ICE Facility Blows the Whistle on Coronavirus Dangers | Intercept
- (2021) Supreme Court Makes It Harder For Undocumented Immigrants To Fight Deportation | NPR
- (2021) ICE Threatened to Expose Asylum-Seekers to Covid-19 if They Did Not Accept Deportation | The Intercept
- (2021) Border Patrol Beat an Immigrant to Death and Then Covered It Up | The Intercept
- (2022) Why a Question About Slavery Is Now on the Ballot in 5 States | New York Times
- (2020) 'Defund the Police' dominated 2020. What happened? | MSNBC
- (2021) With Slow Progress On Federal Level, Police Reform Remains Patchwork Across U.S. | NPR
- (2021) A Year After ‘Defund,’ Police Departments Get Their Money Back | New York Times
- (2021) A Year After George Floyd's Death, Plans For Minneapolis Police Reform Have Softened | NPR
- (2020) 'Defund the Police' dominated 2020. What happened? | MSNBC
- (2021) Most U.S. Mayors Do Not Support Reallocating Police Resources, Survey Finds | NPR
- (2020) Chicago School Board Votes To Keep Cops In City Schools | WBEZ
- (2022) Much of America wants policing to change. But these self-proclaimed experts tell officers they’re doing just fine | Washington Post
Scholarship
- (2022) The dark footprint of state violence: A synthetic approach to the American crime decline| by Aaron Roussell
- (2023) Mechanisms Connecting Police Brutality, Intersectionality, and Women's Health Over the Life Course | Sirry Alang
- (2021) “We’re Still Dying Quicker Than We Can Effect Change”: #BlackLivesMatter and the Limits of 21st-Century Policing Reform| by Michelle S. Phelps
- (2021) Policing and "Bluelining| by Aya Gruber
- (2021) Police Brutality and the Institutional Patterning of Stressors| Sirry Alang
- (2018) Why Neighborhoods Matter in Deaths by Legal Intervention: Examining Fatal Interactions between Police and Men of Color | Odis Johnson, Jr
- (2019) Police-Related Deaths and Neighborhood Economic and Racial/Ethnic Polarization, United States, 2015–2016. | Justin M. Feldman
- (2017) Quantifying underreporting of law-enforcement-related deaths in United States vital statistics and news-media-based data sources: A capture-recapture analysis | Justin M. Feldman
- (2017) The Trauma Lens of Police Violence against Racial and Ethnic Minorities | Thema Bryant‐Davis,
- (2020) The Co-Offender as Counterfactual: a Quasi-experimental Within-partnership Approach to the Examination of the Relationship Between Race and Arrest. | Brendan Lantz
- (2015) Institutional Racism: Perspectives on the Department of Justice's Investigation of the Ferguson Police Department | by Cassandra Chaney
- (2020) The Jungle Academy: Molding White Supremacy in American Police Recruits. | Aisha M. Beliso‐De Jesús
- (2018) Racialized Surveillance: Activist Media and the Policing of Black Bodies | Gino Canella
- (2018) Creating, Reinforcing, and Resisting the Gender Binary: A Qualitative Study of Transgender Women’s Healthcare Experiences in Sex-Segregated Jails and Prisons | by Jaclyn M. White Hughto
- Health Implications of Housing Assignments for Incarcerated Transgender Women | by Elida Ledesma and Chandra L. Ford
- (2016) Mass Imprisonment and the Life Course: Race and Class Inequality in U.S. Incarceration | by Becky Pettit
- (2019) Pervasive Penality: How the Criminalization of Poverty Perpetuates Homelessness | Chris Herring
- (2012) Prison, Foster Care, and the Systemic Punishment of Black Mothers | by Dorothy Roberts
- (2020) Prisons as LULUs: Understanding the Parallels between Prison Proliferation and Environmental Injustices | by Tara Opsal
- (2014) Racial/Ethnic Disparities in History of Incarceration, Experiences of Vicitimization, and Associated Health Indicators Among Transgender Women in the U.S. | by Sari L. Reisner
- (2020) Racial and Ethnic Divides in Privatized Punishment: Examining Disparities in Private Prison Placements | by Andrea Montes
- (2019) Racial Disparity in U.S. Imprisonment Across States and Over Time | by Walter Enders
- (2022) Cumulative Racial and Ethnic Disparities Along the School-to-Prison Pipeline | by Kelly Welch
- (2021) Pathways Through Juvenile Justice: A System-Level Assessment of Cumulative Disadvantage in the Processing of Juvenile Offenders. | by Steven Zane
- (2020) School procedural justice and being pushed out: examining the intersection of sex and race/ethnicity | by Kay Varela
- (2020) Immigrant Generation, School Procedural Justice, and Educational Attainment. | by Jessica Dunning‐Lozano
- (2021) Where is the Safe Haven?” Transgender Women’s Experiences of Victimization and Help-Seeking across the Life Course | Jane Hereth
- (2005) Enforcement Mechanisms Discouraging Black–American Presence in Suburban Detroit. | Tim Bates
- (2019) Stereotypical Hate Crimes and Criminal Justice Processing: A Multi-Dataset Comparison of Bias Crime Arrest Patterns by Offender and Victim Race | Brendan Lantz
- (2020) Living in the Blast Zone: Sexual Violence Piped onto Native Land by Extractive Industries | by Lily Grisafi
- (2017) Invisible Violence: Gender, Islamophobia, and the Hidden Assault on U.S. Muslim Women | by Sabrina Alimahomed-Wilson
- (2018) Living While Black: Blackness as Nuissance | by Taja-Nia Henderson and Jamila Jefferson-Jones
- (2022) Identifying misconduct-committing officer crews in the Chicago police department | Akshay Jain
- (2019) How Was That Reasonable? The Misguided Development of Qualified Immunity and Excessive Force by Law Enforcement Officers | by Marcus R. Nemeth
- (2022) Representations of Policing Problems and Body-Worn Cameras in Existing Research. | Christel Backman
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