Nick Petersen

TL;DR: Petersen et al. as discussed by the authors used mid-century measures of violent opposition to the Civil Rights Movement to bridge the historical gap between lynchings and later homicide, thus clarifying the dynamic and contingent nature of racial violence.

TL;DR: This article examined the neighborhood context of homicide investigations and found that homicides occurring in areas with larger Black and Latino populations are less likely to be cleared, highlighting the importance of neighbourhood racial composition beyond victim race effects and have implications for the community context of criminal justice.

TL;DR: The authors found that pretrial detention has downstream consequences for racial inequalities in conviction and sentencing, and that it is often conceptualized as a discrete event within the criminality of criminal justice.