Giving Compass' Take:

• Chanapa Tantibanchachai reports that a study found that millennials are more likely to have been arrested than gen-Xers who self-reported the same level of crime. 

• How can funders work to ensure that people -particularly people of color - are not burdened by excessive arrests? 

• Learn about the state of mass incarceration in the United States. 

Millennials are more likely to be arrested than their predecessor counterparts regardless of self-reported criminal activity, according to a new study.

Furthermore, black men who self-reported no offenses were 419 percent more likely to be arrested at the beginning of the 21st century than non-offending blacks of the previous generation, and 31.5 percent more likely to be arrested than whites of the same generation who did not self-report any crimes.

The study, which appears in RSF: The Russell Sage Foundation Journal of the Social Sciences, demonstrates the effects the rise of proactive policing practices and increased targeting of minor infractions had on an entire generation, the researchers say.

Read the full article about millennials by Chanapa Tantibanchachai at Futurity.