‘Systemic racism,” at least in the criminal-justice system, has been comprehensively measured. This, following my recent review of Cory Clark and Lee Jussim’s excellent analysis of academic censorship, to which I myself contributed the odd word, will be my second “academic findings” article in a row for National Review. Get excited!
This week’s topic is at least as important as last week’s. In a recent quantitative meta-analysis, Stetson University’s Christopher Ferguson and Sven Smith found substantial evidence for something conservative scholars and criminal lawyers have long suspected. Simply put, based on models that adjust for social class as a variable, there appears to exist little or no “systemic” racial bias in the U.S. criminal-justice system.
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