The color of justice: racial and ethnic disparity in state prisons.

Since the majority of people in prison • In Oklahoma, the state with the highest overall black are sentenced at the state level rather than the federal level, it is incarceration rate, 1 in 15 black males ages 18 and older is critical to understand the variation in racial and ethnic composition in prison. [...] In this report we present the rates of racial and ethnic disparity, which allow a portrayal of the overrepresentation of people of color in the prison system accounting for population in the general community.10 This shows odds of imprisonment for individuals in various racial and ethnic categories. [...] 8 The Sentencing Project DRIVERS OF DISPARITY Persistent racial disparities have long been a focus in criminological unexplained disparity to be in the range of 15-16%, and though research and the presence of disparities is not disputed.14 this is a smaller amount of unexplained variance (compared to Proposed explanations for disparities range from variations in that found by Blumstein, for exampl. [...] Between 2000 and 2009 and Vermont.61 incarceration for white women rose 47%, from 34 per 100,000 to 50 per 100,000.60 14 The Sentencing Project The rates of incarceration for racial and ethnic groups were calculated by dividing the total number of individuals in prison of a given race or ethnicity (Non-Hispanic whites, Non-Hispanic blacks, or Hispanic) by the total number of individuals in the pop. [...] Racism on trial: New evidence to houses of corrections is approximately 5,400, but the explain the racial composition of prisons in the United The Color of Justice: Racial and Ethnic Disparity in State Prisons 19 .