Michael T. Light

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    The rise in the incarceration rate may help explain the falling gap in homicide rates between Blacks, Hispanics and Whites.

The rise in the incarceration rate may help explain the falling gap in homicide rates between Blacks, Hispanics and Whites.

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Blacks, Hispanics and Whites all have differing homicide rates. But how have these rates changed in recent years? In new research which examines 131 metropolitan areas, Michael T. Light takes the first look at trends in racial and ethnic homicide gaps in the US since 1990, finding that these gaps had decreased by between 35 and 50 percent. He […]

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    When it comes to U.S. punishment, noncitizens may be the new face of legal inequality

When it comes to U.S. punishment, noncitizens may be the new face of legal inequality

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While there has a been a great deal of discussion and commentary on the recent increase in the numbers of undocumented immigrants coming to the U.S., there is little understanding of their experiences in America, especially within the justice system. In new research, Michael T. Light finds that nearly half of those sentenced in a U.S. district court are […]

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