By Amanda West, Shannon Paylor, and Gaurav Anand @University of Virginia 2021.
- Find from the census the total population of Virginia by racial group and see if racial groups in the court data are over/under represented
- Create a map of racial disparity by area, and we can show changes in that map over time
- What criminal charges produce the worst racial disparities?
- Count the number of black people charged with felonies vs. white people charge with misdemeanors for the same offense by year
- Count the number of black people convicted of felonies vs. white people convicted of misdemeanors (or not convicted at all) for the same offense by year
- What are the most common offenses in the VA court system
- Make a bar plot of the 20 most frequent codes
- Census Data: https://www.census.gov/data/tables/time-series/demo/popest/2010s-counties-detail.html
- Criminal Expungement Trello: https://trello.com/c/UXTdBnkY/1-racial-disparity-in-enforcement-and-sentencing
- Final Write-up: https://docs.google.com/document/d/1QYquBrj9K4stv4KU_xCKx7NdjiMjccemkaXdyqMH3iQ/edit
- Description between ChargeType & Chargecode: http://www.vcsc.virginia.gov/VCCs/2018/VCCReseachStatute.pdf
- Court Data: https://virginiacourtdata.org/
- Population Data: https://www2.census.gov/programs-surveys/popest/technical-documentation/file-layouts/2010-2019/cc-est2019-alldata.pdf
- Virginia Geospatial Population Data: https://www.census.gov/quickfacts/fact/map/VA/RHI225219
- Code for Charlottesville Github: https://github.com/code-for-charlottesville/LAJC-expungement/blob/main/README.md
- Code for Charlottesville Pull Requests: code-for-charlottesville/LAJC-expungement#2
Find from the census the total population of Virginia by racial group and see if racial groups in the court data are over/under represented
Create a map of racial disparity by area, and we can show changes in that map over time
What criminal charges produce the worst racial disparities?
Count the number of black people charged with felonies vs. white people charge with misdemeanors for the same offense by year
Count the number of black people convicted of felonies vs. white people convicted of misdemeanors (or not convicted at all) for the same offense by year
What are the most common offenses in the VA court system
Make a bar plot of the 20 most frequent codes
Find from the census the total population of Virginia by racial group and see if racial groups in the court data are over/under represented
Create a map of racial disparity by area, and we can show changes in that map over time
What criminal charges produce the worst racial disparities?
Count the number of black people charged with felonies vs. white people charge with misdemeanors for the same offense by year
Count the number of black people convicted of felonies vs. white people convicted of misdemeanors (or not convicted at all) for the same offense by year
What are the most common offenses in the VA court system
Make a bar plot of the 20 most frequent codes