Episode 45: Conrad Miller on racial disparities in sentencing

Conrad Miller talks about how local racial composition affects punishment severity in the criminal justice system.

"Racial Divisions and Criminal Justice: Evidence from Southern State Courts" by Benjamin Feigenberg and Conrad Miller.

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OTHER RESEARCH WE DISCUSS IN THIS EPISODE:

• “Public Goods and Ethnic Divisions” by Alberto Alesina, Reza Baqir, and William Easterly.

• “Reassessing the Racial Divide in Support for Capital Punishment: The Continuing Significance of Race” by James Unnever and Francis Cullen.

• “Racial Disparities in Incarceration Increase Acceptance of Punitive Policies” by Rebecca C. Hetey and Jennifer L. Eberhardt.

• “The Judge, the Politician, and the Press: Newspaper Coverage and Criminal Sentencing across Electoral Systems” by Claire S.H. Lim, James M. Snyder Jr., and David Strömberg.

• "Who Watches the Watchmen? Local News and Police Behavior in the United States" by Nicola Mastrorocco and Arianna Ornaghi.

• Probable Causation Episode 44: Arianna Ornaghi

• "Local Crime News Bias: Extent, Causes and Consequences" by Jonathan Moreno-Medina.

• "Can you move to opportunity? Evidence from the Great Migration" by Ellora Derenoncourt.

• Probable Causation Episode 36: Ellora Derenoncourt

• "Racial Disparity in Federal Criminal Sentences" by M. Marit Rehavi and Sonja B. Starr.

• "A Few Bad Apples? Racial Bias in Policing" by Felipe Goncalves & Steven Mello.

• "Racial Disparities in the Acquisition of Juvenile Arrest Records" by Steven Raphael and Sandra V. Rozo.

• "If You Give a Judge a Risk Score: Evidence from Kentucky Bail Decisions" by Alex Albright.