Exploring how certain felonies led to the loss of voting rights in Mississippi during the 1890s, revealing disparities in disenfranchisement based on stereotypes of Black and White communities' propensity to commit different crimes.
We're joined again by Rajiv Sethi, Professor of Economics at Barnard College at Columbia University and External Professor at the Santa Fe Institute to explore the intersection between stereotyping, crime, and the justice system to understand criminal behaviour beyond simplistic explanations.
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