Racial disparities in the criminal justice system are well documented and widespread. The
present review examines racial disparities in three areas of the system: policing, prison …

In late 2014, a series of highly publicized police killings of unarmed Black male civilians in
the United States prompted large-scale social turmoil. In the current review, we dissect the …

Proactive policing, as a strategic approach used by police agencies to prevent crime, is a
relatively new phenomenon in the United States. It developed from a crisis in confidence in …

Due to a lack of data, the demographic and psychological factors associated with lethal force
by police officers have remained insufficiently explored. We develop the first predictive …

Research has shown that mindfulness can positively affect peoples' lives in a number of
ways, including relying less on previously established associations. We focused on the …

This Article articulates some of the causes of what I will call" blue-on-black violence." I
describe police violence against African-Americans in this way for two principal reasons. 1 …

We review sociological, correlational, and experimental research that examines the effect of
a target's race on the decision to shoot. Much of this work involves computer‐based …

Recent research has demonstrated that mindfulness meditation reduces implicit race and
age bias by weakening the associations of the target group with negative constructs. The …

Negative racial stereotypes tend to associate Black people with threat. This often leads to
the misidentification of harmless objects as weapons held by a Black individual. Yet, little is …

We analyze data from 213 metropolitan areas over a 21‐year period, and examine two
possible reasons for the disproportionately high number of Black suspects killed in police …