Racial discrimination in access to justice: Evidence from Brazil

In Brazil, young Black males are far more likely to experience criminal violence (eg homicide, police lethality and assault) than young White males. However, race might also affect the ex-post scenario; that is, Blacks and Whites may go to the police seeking solutions against criminal violence with...

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Published in:International journal for crime, justice and social democracy justice and social democracy, 2023-01, Vol.12 (4), p.11-26
Main Authors: Truzzi, Bruno, Lirio, Viviani S., Cardoso, Leonardo C. B., Cerqueira, Daniel R. C., Coelho, Danilo S. C.
Format: Article
Language:English
Subjects:
access to justice
Black people
Crime
Decomposition
Economic growth
Evidence
Human rights
Justice
Labor market
Murders & murder attempts
oaxaca-blinder decomposition
Probability
Race
Race discrimination
Race identity
Racial discrimination
Social aspects
Social conditions
Victimization
Violence
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Summary:In Brazil, young Black males are far more likely to experience criminal violence (eg homicide, police lethality and assault) than young White males. However, race might also affect the ex-post scenario; that is, Blacks and Whites may go to the police seeking solutions against criminal violence with different probabilities. In this paper we identified and quantified the sources of the racial differential in accessing justice between Blacks and Whites in Brazil. Using microdata from the Brazilian Household Survey, we used the Oaxaca-Blinder decomposition to isolate the discriminatory component from social indicators correlated with access to justice. We found that structural attributes explain only part (around 60%) of the racial differential in accessing justice. A significant portion of the discrepancy (at least 40%) provides evidence of racial discrimination. In addition, the spatial dynamics revealed that the Northeast region of Brazil presents the most discriminatory scenario in the country, a region historically characterised by higher social inequalities and violent mortality.
ISSN:2202-8005
2202-7998
2202-8005
DOI:10.5204/ijcjsd.2289