Reducing racial disparities in prosecution requires offense-specific, decision-point-level data

Evidence

All of the above emphasize the need for a nuanced offense-specific, decision-point-level, jurisdictionally informed examination of racial disparities in prosecution and sentencing. Greater specificity enables linking the results with specific policies and reforms. Productive policy conversations about reducing racial and ethnic disparities stem from the findings across precise offense categories and definite decision points. And these conversations tend to be especially useful when examining data over time and discussing the findings across multiple meetings to allow the continuity of thoughts and engagement. — Joseph Avery, Jim Sidanius, Joel Cooper, Gregory Davis, Amanda N., Bias in the Law, 589

Categorization

• XREF: Connects to the Milgrom law-merchant material on how institution-level specificity and repeated engagement underpin working systems — here applied to prosecutorial policy reform. — connects to: Banning racial data collection protects private discrimination from scrutiny — David Theo Goldberg, The Threat of Race: Reflections on…, 1767