Katherine Beckett

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Katherine Beckett is an American sociologist known for researching the United States criminal justice system. [1] She is a professor in the University of Washington's Law, Societies & Justice Program, as well as in the Department of Sociology there. She previously taught at Indiana University. [2]

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Research

Beckett has researched racial disparities in the United States criminal justice system, such as the disproportionately high rates of drug arrests among racial minorities. [3] [4] She has also researched bans imposed on individuals by public parks, finding that most people disobey them. [5] In October 2018, the Washington Supreme Court relied on a regression analysis a death row prisoner had commissioned from Beckett when it abolished the state's death penalty because of its unconstitutionally racist imposition. [6] [7] [8]

Other work

Beckett helped develop the Rethinking Punishment Radio Project, along with another podcast known as Cited. [9]

References

  1. ↑ "Katherine Beckett". Scholars Strategy Network.
  2. ↑ Abramsky, Sasha (June 1999). "When They Get Out". The Atlantic. Retrieved 27 July 2017.
  3. ↑ Holden, Dominic (16 April 2014). "Reform in Reverse". The Stranger. Retrieved 27 July 2017.
  4. ↑ Roberts, Chris (22 February 2016). "Report: Black Tenderloin Drug Dealers Definitely Arrested More Often Than Whites, Latinos". SF Weekly. Retrieved 27 July 2017.[ permanent dead link ]
  5. ↑ Brown, Jennifer (21 February 2015). "Banned from 16th Street: Dozens ordered by court to stay away". The Denver Post. Retrieved 9 January 2018.
  6. ↑ Sudermann, Hannelore. "How UW research convinced our state's highest court to toss out the death penalty". University of Washington Magazine. Retrieved 2 December 2019.
  7. ↑ Beckett, Katherine; Evans, Heather (13 October 2014). "The Role of Race in Washington State Capital Sentencing, 1981-2012" (PDF). Archived from the original on 1 October 2018. Retrieved 2 December 2019.{{cite news}}: CS1 maint: bot: original URL status unknown (link)
  8. ↑ State v. Gregory, 427P.3d621 (Wash.2018).
  9. ↑ "A New Podcast Tells a Different Kind of Prison Story". Seattle Weekly. 24 March 2015. Archived from the original on 9 January 2018. Retrieved 27 July 2017.


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