Hispanics and the Criminal Justice System

How Are Hispanic Individuals Represented in the Criminal Justice ...

Despite committing crimes at a lower rate, Hispanic adults overall, including immigrants and native-born American citizens, are incarcerated in ...

Criminal Justice Reform - LULAC

56% of Latinos have had contact with the criminal justice system first hand or have a close family member that has · 44% are more likely to be convicted than ...

New report sheds light on Latinos in U.S. criminal justice system

Across 14 communities, just 30 percent of criminal justice record management systems capture Latino or Hispanic ethnicity data separately from ...

Perception of Latinos' race impacts crime sentences, study finds

Even when the severity of crime and criminal background were similar, researchers found that Latinos identified as such by authorities were ...

Focusing on Latinos in the U.S. Criminal Justice System

It also explores the involvement of Latinos/as in local criminal justice systems, including racial and ethnic disparities at the front door, in ...

Criminal Justice | Latino Policy & Politics Institute

While Latinos make up a large population of those directly impacted by the criminal justice system, national and local reforms have yet to meaningfully ...

Hispanics and the Criminal Justice System | Pew Research Center

Hispanics and the Criminal Justice System · II. Confidence in the Criminal Justice System · III. Reporting Crimes to the Police · IV. Contact ...

Latino Representation in the Criminal Justice System

Despite increased representation in police force personnel, the criminal justice system continues to produce disproportionate negative outcomes for the Latino ...

The Alarming Lack of Data on Latinos in the Criminal Justice System

No one knows exactly how many Latinos are arrested each year or how many are in prison, on probation, or on parole.

Impact of the Criminal Justice System on Hispanics (From Report ...

The bail system relegates poor Hispanics to jail for extended periods before trial. Prosecutors seek sentences that exceed the severity of crimes, and judges ...

"Are Hispanics Discriminated Against in the US Criminal Justice ...

Recent publications have contributed to increase the perception among Hispanics of an unfair and unequal treatment of this community by the US Criminal ...

Exploring Latino/a Representation in Local Criminal Justice Systems

understanding of Latinos in the criminal justice system. We examine Latino representation in local criminal justice systems, looking at how Latino and ...

Hispanics in the Criminal Justice System - The 'Nonexistent' Problem

The problem of the underrepresentation of Hispanics in criminal justice statistics is discussed. ... The little evidence that is available suggests that Hispanics ...

HISPANICS IN THE U.S. CRIMINAL JUSTICE SYSTEM

HISPANICS IN THE U.S. CRIMINAL JUSTICE SYSTEM: Ethnicity, Ideology, and Social Control (2nd Ed.) By Martin Guevara Urbina, Sofia Espinoza Alvarez.

Are Blacks and Hispanics Disproportionately Incarcerated Relative ...

... criminal justice system, or do they reflect disproportionate involvement of blacks and Hispanics in “serious” or street crime? ...

The Criminal Justice System and Latinos in an Emerging Latino Area

There is an extensive amount of research on African Americans' experiences and views of the criminal justice system yet our knowledge of Latinos' experiences ...

Latino - Prison Policy Initiative

By being both more vulnerable to crime as well as disadvantaged in every phase of the criminal justice system,. Latinos are poorly served by current policies ...

Gender, age, and ethnic differences in offending behavior among ...

Crime history data were collected using the Criminal Justice Drug Abuse Treatment Studies (CJ-DATS) assessment tool (Prendergast, n.d.). The ...

The rapidly shifting Hispanic experience of American criminal justice

Hispanic views on policing and crime may also be similar to whites because the two groups rate of being violent crime victims is almost ...

Colorism in Punishment among Hispanics in the Criminal Justice ...

... Hispanics. Inconsistent findings, in short, plague the scant literature on colorism among Hispanics in the criminal justice system. One ...