Justice Insights
Justice Insights is an innovative, AI-driven podcast that delivers cutting-edge research and analysis on critical issues in criminal justice reform.
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Beyond the Hidden Curriculum: Retaining Black Scholars in Criminal Justice (opens the original)
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In this episode, we unpack findings from research published in the Journal of Criminal Justice Education examining faculty retention, institutional barriers, and solutions for Black scholars in criminology. Despite decades of campus diversity initiatives, Black scholars account for only 8% of faculty in doctoral-granting criminology programs. Most strikingly, 75% of Black criminologists report considering leaving academia entirely—a national retention crisis driven by racialized isolation, mento
The System, Not the Street: What Houston's Arrest Data Is Really Telling Us (opens the original)
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When researchers examined more than 30,000 arrests in Houston, findings did not uncover a story about dangerous people or perilous neighborhoods. What emerged instead was evidence of structural conditions - concentrated poverty, limited opportunity, under-resourced schools, and unequal enforcement - left unaddressed for generations, now visible through records. Racial patterns run deeper than identity. Mapping where disinvestment has been most severe reveals institutional response heaviest there
Built Into the System: Public Safety and Structural Inequality in Houston (opens the original)
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What drives public safety disparities in Houston? This episode examines findings from the Houston Public Safety Needs Assessment, a two-year community-informed study produced by the HBCU Criminal Justice Research Hub in the Center for Justice Research at Texas Southern University. Researchers found that racial disparities in Houston's criminal justice system are not the product of individual behavior. Five ZIP codes account for a disproportionate share of the city's violent crime, and every one
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