Brenden Beck on How to Track If Race Impacts the Delivery of Victim Services

Published: Jan. 20, 2022

Researchers are correct to caution the use of census data to determine whether victim services leaders are providing services equitably, said Brenden Beck, Assistant Professor of Sociology. A better way to determine parity, he said, is to compare how many victims of crime there were in each race in Colorado to the number of victims of each race served by providers of each race.

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The Colorado Sun
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