Katherine Beckett Explained

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]

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]

External links

Notes and References

  1. Web site: Katherine Beckett . Scholars Strategy Network.
  2. Web site: When They Get Out . Abramsky . Sasha . June 1999 . The Atlantic . en-US . 2017-07-27.
  3. Web site: Reform in Reverse . 2014-04-16 . Holden . Dominic . The Stranger . 2017-07-27.
  4. Web site: Report: Black Tenderloin Drug Dealers Definitely Arrested More Often Than Whites, Latinos . Roberts . Chris . 2016-02-22 . SF Weekly . en . 2017-07-27.
  5. News: Banned from 16th Street: Dozens ordered by court to stay away . Brown . Jennifer . 2015-02-21 . The Denver Post . 2018-01-09 . en-US.
  6. News: Sudermann . Hannelore . How UW research convinced our state's highest court to toss out the death penalty . 2 December 2019 . University of Washington Magazine.
  7. News: Beckett . Katherine . Evans . Heather . The Role of Race in Washington State Capital Sentencing, 1981-2012 . 13 October 2014 . 2 December 2019 . 1 October 2018 . https://perma-archives.org/warc/20181001171025/https://deathpenaltyinfo.org/documents/WashRaceStudy2014.pdf . bot: unknown .
  8. State v. Gregory. 427. P.3d. 621. Wash.. 2018. https://scholar.google.com/scholar_case?case=8854659891232700142.
  9. Web site: A New Podcast Tells a Different Kind of Prison Story . 2015-03-24. Seattle Weekly . 2017-07-27.

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