Racial disparities in the criminal justice system are well documented and widespread. The
present review examines racial disparities in three areas of the system: policing, prison …

The police need public support and cooperation to be effective in controlling crime and
holding offenders accountable. In many disadvantaged communities of color, poor …

Diversification is a widely proposed policing reform, but its impact is difficult to assess. We
used records of millions of daily patrol assignments, determined through fixed rules and …

Each year, US child protection authorities investigate millions of families, disproportionately
poor families and families of color. These investigations involve multiple home visits to …

An increasing number of minority youth experience contact with the criminal justice system.
But how does the expansion of police presence in poor urban communities affect …

Proactive policing, the strategic targeting of people or places to prevent crimes, is a well-
studied tactic that is ubiquitous in modern law enforcement. A 2017 National Academies of …

In the field of family science and in the broader family policy discourse, debate is ongoing
about the importance of family structure for child outcomes. Missing from this debate is a full …

Purpose The aim of the study was to examine the proximate mental health consequences of
stressful and emotionally charged interactions with police officers among a national sample …

Under what conditions do people support police use of force? In this paper we assess some
of the empirical links between police legitimacy, political ideology (right-wing …

Contemporary American policing has routinized involuntary police contacts with young
people through frequent, sometimes intrusive investigative stops. Personal experience with …