Cymone Bell
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The enduring racial divide in death penalty support
In this article it examines the many factors that may be huge predictors in explaining the correlation between why there are some people who support the death penalty and why there are some people who oppose it. Race turns out to be the strongest factor because it dominates. Race dominates even if we controlled for everything else because Blacks tend to feel more targeted when it comes down to the criminal justice system and this is due to the fact that even if there are some blacks that may be victims to crime, they may not be able to get the justice they may be seeking or hoping for due to the fact that they are a black and so therefore justice may not be on their side. There are huge racial disparities or a divide that perpetuates this cycle of distrust amongst the criminal justice system which keeps this problem ongoing. There were also opinions that were taken from the General Social Survey and these opinions were considered because they included other factors that may be the cause with the enduring racial divide when it comes to death penalty support. The factors that were looked at were religion, political ideology, subcultures, income, experience with the criminal justice system, fear of crime and even raised the question of how harsh should the system should be to criminals. In the General Social Survey due to race and support of the death penalty, starting in year 1972 there was a 28.6 percent difference between whites and blacks who supported capital punishment and the racial divide seems to get bigger as the survey years get older and by the year 1996 the gap seems to get smaller between blacks and whites who support the death penalty but not enough to show a huge significant difference.
Black Neighbors, Higher Crime? The Role of Racial Stereotypes in Evaluations of Neighborhood Crime
In this article it examines how residents have a high fear of crime if ethnic groups move into their neighborhoods. In the article it shows that it if a resident perceives that there are young African American men in their neighborhood, and then they become scared. When it comes down to a resident being scared, it is not the amount of crime that shapes their fear but rather the percentage of African American men that are in their neighborhood. Many whites would rather move or live in neighborhoods that aren't predominately black because on average there are higher crime rates that are in black neighborhoods and also the housing market seems to depreciate. In the article it also shows how the number of police reports in a neighborhood did create a certain perception and or effect on crime in the neighborhood. If there a certain crimes that are not being reported to the police then these neighborhoods can give off the perception that they are free of crime and they really are not and if the police at times do not record the crimes that are reported to them then this also can give off the perception that a neighborhood is crime free when in reality actual crimes are occurring.
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