by lindaoppenheim | Feb 6, 2020 | Documents
The Color of Change and the Norman Lear Center at USC’s study of crime television shows, “Normalizing Injustice,” found that the programs play a part in shaping skewed societal perceptions of the criminal justice system. The shows depicted wrongful...
by lindaoppenheim | Mar 30, 2015 | Broadcast
On All Things Considered, “NPR’s Michel Martin speaks with professors Phillip Atiba Goff of UCLA and Harry Holzer of Georgetown University about how fears of African-American men are manifested in the criminal justice system and the labor market, and what...
by lindaoppenheim | Mar 24, 2015 | Article, Documents
“Two Media Matters reports analyzing nightly news coverage show New York City outlets have named African-Americans as suspects in murder, theft, and assault stories at a rate at least 14 percent higher than reflected in actual NYPD arrest rates averaged over the...
by lindaoppenheim | Jan 24, 2015 | Review
According to Jennifer Gonnerman’s review in the New York Times Sunday Book Review (January 21, 2015), Jill Leovy, a reporter for the Los Angeles Times “argues that as a nation we have grown far too accepting of our high rate of homicide . . . in large part...
by lindaoppenheim | Sep 17, 2014 | Awards, News
Jennifer L. Eberhardt, Stanford University social psychologist, was named a 2014 MacArthur Fellow for her work “regarding visual attention and racial bias in modern policing and criminal sentencing [. She] offers concrete demonstrations that stereotypic...
