Racial discrimination in criminal justice hits subordinate men hardest

Evidence

One not so obvious implication of TGP as applied to the CJS is that the severity of negative sanctions imposed by the CJS will also tend to be an interactive function of one’s gender and one’s arbitrary-set membership. Further, the Seventh Law-of-Law predicts that the specific nature of this interaction will be such that subordinate males will be the disproportionate victims of arbitrary-set discrimination within the CJS and to a substantially greater degree than will subordinate females. For example, while one might or might not find evidence of racial discrimination within the CJS against Black women, one should expect to see rather strong evidence of racial discrimination within the CJS against Black men. — Joseph Avery, Jim Sidanius, Joel Cooper, Gregory Davis, Amanda N., Bias in the Law, 99

Categorization

• SEED: The claim that subordinate males bear the brunt of racial discrimination, not women, could anchor an essay on who actually gets crushed by a punitive system.
• XREF: Resonates with intersectionality work and with the general finding that intergroup conflict is male-against-male.