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Racial Disparities in Criminal Sentencing and Incarceration: Twin Cities and Wichita

Racial Disparities in Criminal Sentencing and Incarceration: Twin Cities and Wichita. Cooperative effort involving: Minnesota Sentencing Guidelines Commission Institute on Race and Poverty Other Minnesota Law School Researchers Minnesota State Court Administrator’s Office

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Racial Disparities in Criminal Sentencing and Incarceration: Twin Cities and Wichita

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  1. Racial Disparities in Criminal Sentencing and Incarceration: Twin Cities and Wichita

  2. Cooperative effort involving: • Minnesota Sentencing Guidelines Commission • Institute on Race and Poverty • Other Minnesota Law School Researchers • Minnesota State Court Administrator’s Office • Research staff from County justice agencies

  3. Two Components of the Study • Racial Bias in Sentencing and Case Processing (Sentencing Commission and other participants) • The Impact of School and Neighborhood Characteristics on Incarceration Rates (IRP)

  4. Racial Bias in Sentencing and Case Processing Examination of racial disparities throughout the court system, including: • Initial charges • Pre-trial detention • Convictions • Pre-trial dispositions • Probation revocations

  5. Data: 2005 sentencing/monitoring data for sentenced felons. • 15,500 cases • 62% White • 24% Black • 6% Native American • 6% Hipanic • 2% Asian

  6. The Impact of School and Neighborhood Characteristics on Incarceration Rates Work will combine sentencing data (15,500 cases) with more detailed location and demographic data for a sample of 4,500 cases to: • Map sentencing rates by neighborhood • Analyze how neighborhood incarceration rates relate to neighborhood characteristics like racial segregation, unemployment and family structure • Analyze the impact of the characteristics of schools that inmates attended on later incarceration rates

  7. Race and Poverty in Minneapolis Schools

  8. Free Lunch Eligibility

  9. Race and Poverty in Northwest Suburb Schools

  10. Northwest SuburbsFree Lunch Eligibility

  11. Basic Skills Test Results, Dropout and Completion Rates

  12. Where Convicted Felons Live

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