Re - Assessing The Racial Divide in Support for Capital Punishment: The Continuing Significance of Race  

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Unnever, James D. ; Cullen, Francis T.

Jenis: Article from Journal - ilmiah internasional
Dalam koleksi: Journal of Research in Crime and Delinquency (http://jrc.sagepub.com/) vol. 44 no. 1 (2007), page 124-158.
Topik: RACIAL BIAS; race and capital punishment; death penalty attitudes; racial divide
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Perpustakaan Pusat (Semanggi) Nomor Panggil: JJ95.8 Non-tandon: 1 (dapat dipinjam: 0) Tandon: tidak ada

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This project investigates the racial divide in support for capital punishment. The authors examine whether race has a direct effect on support for capital punishment and test whether the influence of race varies across class, being a native southerner, confidence in government officials, political orientation, and religious affiliation. Using data drawn from the General Social Survey, they find a substantial racial divide, with African Americans much less likely to support the death penalty. Furthermore, the analysis revealed little support for the “spunous / social convergence” hypothesis : shared factors that might be expected to bring African Americans and Whites together - class, confidence in government. conservative politics. regional location, and religious fundamentalism - either did not narrow African American - White punishment attitudes or at best, had only modest effects. The Results suggest that the racial divide in support for capital punishment is likely to remain a point of symbolic contention in African American - White conceptions of criminal injustice in the United States.

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