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Criminal and Juvenile Justice

Session: Disparities and Resilience: Navigating The Impact of Arrest & Incarceration on Marginalized Communities

Night and Day: Racial Disparities in Arrests Across Black and Latine Communities in 2020

Saturday, October 26, 2024
10:30 AM – 11:00 AM CT
Location: KC Convention Center, Room 2504A
Racial profiling during traffic stops must not be seen as an individual issue but as a public health issue. The impacts of racialized policies must be examined and anti-racist approaches and policies to reduce police/public interactions should be implemented to reduce outcomes that disproportionately impact Black and Latine communities.

Learning Objectives:

  1. Social work practitioners, researchers, educators, and students will begin to understand the necessity of examining current racialized policing policies and outcomes using a historical lens.
  2. Participants will learn how federal, state, and local policies contribute to racialized outcomes in policing and how other policies can also contribute to anti-racist outcomes.
  3. Participants will gain knowledge about the veil of darkness hypothesis which posits that when police cannot identify a driver’s race, Black drivers are arrested at lower rates thus validating the existence of racial profiling. These findings will inform further research, social work advocacy, and education.