African American youth are disproportionately located in neighborhoods characterized by crime and are at an increased risk for exposure to community violence and perceiving their neighborhoods to be violent. Each of these three experiences with violence has been linked with conduct problems....
The United States Supreme Court has, unsurprisingly, attracted considerable scholarly scrutiny. Legal historians, political historians, political scientists and those in the legal academy have devoted much attention to the roles the Supreme Court has played in the governance of this country and...
Survey research and vignettes were evaluated by 317 college students to test whether race of offender or type of crime is more significant in determining levels of punishment in criminal cases involving animal cruelty. Findings indicate that almost every respondent was concerned about animal...