When LSU football loses, Louisiana judges give harsher sentences, mostly to black juveniles

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Researchers described this as emotional shock, but the burden of such is mostly attached to black defendants

Word to the wise - delay your court date if your college team loses!

Source: SB Nation, by Tyler Tynes

When LSU football loses, especially when it loses games it shouldn’t, judges across the state dish out harsher sentences to juvenile offenders, most notably black boys and girls.

In a January study by LSU researchers Ozkan Eren and Naci Mocan, the pair revealed data on their university’s football team — specifically the differences between when LSU football wins or loses — over a span from 1996 to 2012.

Mocan — the LSU Chair in Economics, who researches the economics of crime, health and labor — said that upon presenting his findings to folk in Baton Rouge, none were surprised. Likely because football dominates the South and everything else is fighting to be a distant second, even a profession which is supposed to be fair and just by law.

“For people that are not familiar with college football and the intensity of it, it may come as a surprise. It all comes down to the deep connection of the state and the institution and the football team,” Mocan told SB Nation. “Here, they are indoctrinated in this culture of football.”

Much more at: http://www.sbnation.com/2016/9/7/12829620/college-football-lsu-louisiana-judges-sentencing