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Become a Patron!Race, Racism And The Law considers race, racism and racial distinctions in the law. It examines the role of domestic and international law in promoting and/or alleviating racism. This website makes law review scholarship (and related material) more accessible to community activists, students, and non-legal faculty.Vernellia R. RandallFounder and EditorProfessor Emerita of LawThe University of Dayton School of LawBecome a Patron! Become aPatreon!AbstractExcerpted From: Marie Pryor, Kim Shayo Buchanan, and Phillip Atiba Goff, Risky Situations: Sources of Racial Disparity in Police Behavior, 16 Annual Review of Law and Social Science 343 (2020) (Reference List) (Full Document)What are the sources of the persistent racial disparities that plague American policing? To date, social psychologists have relied largely on experimental studies to infer the reasons for racial disparities in policing. Relatively few empirical studies have analyzed the causes of racially disparate police behavior in the field . Economists, meanwhile, aim to assess discrimination in policing by estimating the racial disparity in police encounters that can be predicted by yield rates, crime rates, and neighborhood differences in income and demography, attributing any remaining unexplained disparity to an idiosyncratic “taste for discrimination” in the individual police officers. None of these empirical approaches, though, can predict when or where disparities in policing outcomes will emerge. To generate testable predictions about the sources of disparate behavior by police, empirical scholars need to know which situational risk factors predict biased behaviors. They need to know where to look.For decades, criminal justice researchers have used risk assessments to aggregate situational risk factors and develop risk profiles. Most of the prior research in criminality focuses on the risk of unlawful or violent behavior by residents. To date, very little research has addressed factors that may increase the risk of unjust, unlawful, or violent behavior by police officers. We know from the social psychology literature that attitudes are weak predictors of behavior, including racially disparate behavior. Situational factors can serve as moderators, transforming internal biases into overt actions. The common thread in existing risk assessments is that they aim to capture the predictive factors of certain situations, or situational risk factors. In this article, we extend this tradition to include biased and burdensome policing.Become a Patron!An eclectic collection of poetry, music, essays and the musing of one AfricanAmerican woman on race, racism, gender, health care, law, and legal education.I hope that this site and my workinspires women-of-color and men-of-color who are struggling to succeed in a racially hostile world.provides insight and education to non-blacks on issues of importance to the black community. I use this site and my work to provide me a creative and spiritual outlet as I struggle in a profession that has become almost devoid of creativity and spirituality. I hope that my site and my work reflects who I am -an African American, a woman, a mother, a sister, an aunt, and a friend who works continuously atchanging theworld through law, love, and activism.But first I'd like to share with you some poems and passages that have been important in my life:The Black National AnthemInvictusNo Struggle-No ProgressThe Bridge PoemStill, I RiseThe Greatest Gift is Love!Make Me an Instrument of Peace (Peace Prayer) The site is available without logging in. This login is only available for "Special Viewing" Vernellia R. RandallFounder and EditorProfessor Emerita of LawThe University of Dayton School of Law Vernellia R. RandallProfessor Emerita of LawThe University of DaytonSchool of LawDayton, OH 45469-2772EmailIn accordance with Title 17 U.S.C. section 107, some material on this website is provided for comment, background information, research and/or educational purposes only, without permission from the copyright owner(s), under the "fair use" provisions of the federal copyright laws. These materials may not be distributed for other purposes without permission of the copyright owner(s). In general, the copyright owner is the author of the article.

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