Despite increased media attention, the Black Lives Matter (BLM) movement has received
little scholarly attention. News coverage of BLM is often divisive, which suggests important …

In the 50 years since its inception, racial threat theory has gained substantial traction across
the social sciences and been widely embraced by scholars studying race, power structures …

The transfer of authority over the supervision of inmate populations from state and federal
governments to private corporations is one of the most significant contemporary …

Objectives: The racial threat perspective argues that racial minorities are subjected to
greater punishment in places with large or growing minority populations. However, prior …

Recent theoretical extensions of threat theory have posited that Whites frequently view
Blacks as a criminal threat because of stereotypes linking race and crime. Several studies …

Most research investigates the effect of a defendant's race on severity of imposed legal
sanction at only one of several decision points that comprise the criminal justice system. This …

The concept of group threat—also known as social threat, racial threat, or minority threat—
that motivates substantial criminological inquiry, both theoretical and empirical, have its …

Research shows that Americans who hold strongly to a myth about America's Christian
heritage—what is called “Christian nationalism”—tend to draw rigid boundaries around …

The juvenile justice system was founded on, and until recently developed around, the idea
that society should afford delinquents more leniency and rehabilitative care than adult …

Drawing on two theses from the race relations literature, this article presents a foundational
perspective on core relationships between the police and racial groups in the United States …