Welcome back to the Politics of Prosecution Podcast! This podcast examines the interaction between politics, broadly defined, and criminal prosecution on the local, state and federal levels. Our goal is to produce a variety of shows using different media. The podcast’s first series is created and produced by students in High Point University’s Honors Program. They will look at a variety of issues raised by ongoing events.

In the eighteenth episode of the first series, the hosts challenge their assumptions that minority groups will automatically support each other by examining the relationship between gender and prosecution, more specifically focusing on female prosecutors and the idea of progressive prosecution. To determine if female prosecutors are linked with a more progressive prosecutorial ideology, the hosts analyze historical experiences of women in politics and the criminal justice system as well as data collected on district attorneys from all fifty states. Additionally, the hosts discuss other individual factors that could affect gender politics, including race and region.

The resources used for reference in this episode include:

• https://academic.oup.com/jpart/advance-article/doi/10.1093/jopart/muaa017/5837923
• https://doi.org/10.1093/sf/77.3.1163
• https://law.unc.edu/wp-content/uploads/2020/01/National-Study-Prosecutor-Elections-2020.pdf
• https://lawreview.law.ucdavis.edu/online/vol50/Sklansky.pdf
• https://newsinteractive.post-gazette.com/thedigs/2014/10/13/anne-alpern-first-woman-on-pennsylvanias-high-court/
• https://www.acslaw.org/event/progressive-prosecution-and-the-carceral-state/#:~:text=Proponents%20of%20%E2%80%9Cprogressive%20prosecution%E2%80%9D%20commonly,limiting%20the%20number%20of%20people
• https://www.fairvote.org/voter_turnout#measuring_voter_turnout
• https://www.pewresearch.org/fact-tank/2019/05/03/in-year-of-record-midterm-turnout-women-continued-to-vote-at-higher-rates-than-men/
• https://www.prisonpolicy.org/reports/pie2020.html
• https://www.themarshallproject.org/2020/01/16/facing-intimidation-black-women-prosecutors-say-enough

A special thank you goes to HPU’s Media Services Librarian Josh Harris for allowing us to use his outstanding recording equipment.

Taylor Cunningham performed the editing this week.

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