Reducing
Racial
Disparity
in
the
Criminal
Justice
System:
Sentencing
Project
Releases
Manual
for
Practitioners
and
Policymakers
11/24/00
A new publication of The
Sentencing Project, produced through a collaboration with leaders from
all components of the criminal justice system, provides guidance to criminal
justice professionals on identifying and understand the causes and manifestations
of racial disparity and selecting options for reducing it.
Reducing Racial Disparity
examines the full chain of criminal justice practices, from enforcement
to pretrial to prosecution, defense, judiciary, probation, jails and prisons
to parole.
For further information,
contact The Sentencing Project at (202) 628-0871 or visit http://www.sentencingproject.org
on the web.
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Issue #161, 11/24/00
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