The Value of Social Control: Racial Resentment, Punitiveness, and White Support for Spending on Law Enforcement
| Autor: | Ryan Jerome LeCount, Robert C. Morris |
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| Rok vydání: | 2020 |
| Předmět: |
Value (ethics)
White (horse) Sociology and Political Science media_common.quotation_subject 05 social sciences Law enforcement Punitive damages Identity (social science) 050109 social psychology Criminology 0506 political science Political science 050602 political science & public administration 0501 psychology and cognitive sciences Racial resentment Ideology Social control media_common |
| Zdroj: | Sociological Perspectives. 63:697-718 |
| ISSN: | 1533-8673 0731-1214 |
| DOI: | 10.1177/0731121419899387 |
| Popis: | A well-established body of research finds that racial resentment predicts support for punitive criminal justice policy. This article links racial resentment with punitiveness, expanding the existing research—a body of work that largely treats punitivity as a response to threat. Data for this study come from three nationally representative samples and incorporate individual and contextual factors. Key variables include Racial Resentment, Political Ideology, Punitiveness, Crime—both objective crime (i.e., county-level crime rates) and subjective crime (i.e., fear of crime), racial population characteristics, and theoretically relevant controls. Contextual factors help to clarify whether support for spending is a “rational” response to crime or a “nonrational” response to perceived racial threat as expressed through punitiveness. Findings indicate that, net of a host of factors, a punitive value orientation as well as racial resentment predicts support for increased spending on law enforcement. Our analysis also suggests that racial resentment and punitivity are more consistent and stronger predictors of support even when controlling for Crime. The article closes with a discussion of opportunity cost vis-à-vis law enforcement and other community needs. Implications for further study of race and criminal justice policy get discussed with suggestions for dealing with the future of identity-based politics. |
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