Race/Ethnicity, Perceived Skin Color, and the Likelihood of Adult Arrest
| Autor: | Stephen Demuth, Jessica G. Finkeldey |
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| Rok vydání: | 2019 |
| Předmět: |
Race ethnicity
Sociology and Political Science 050901 criminology 05 social sciences Ethnic group Social constructionism Article Race (biology) Anthropology Skin color 0501 psychology and cognitive sciences 0509 other social sciences Psychology Law Social psychology 050104 developmental & child psychology Criminal justice |
| Zdroj: | Race Justice |
| ISSN: | 2153-3687 |
| DOI: | 10.1177/2153368719826269 |
| Popis: | Research has long-documented racial/ethnic disparities in criminal justice outcomes. However, despite race/ethnicity being a multidimensional social construct, prior research largely relies on self-identification measures, thereby disregarding research on skin tone stratification within-racial/ethnic groups. The current study extends beyond this by examining the relationship between race/ethnicity and arrest employing both self-identified race/ethnicity and perceived skin color. Using data from the National Longitudinal Study of Adolescent to Adult Health, we explore the main and intersecting effects of self-identified race/ethnicity and perceived skin color on experiencing an arrest in adulthood between- and within-self-identified Whites, Blacks, Latinos, Native Americans, and Asians. We use structural disadvantage as a framework for exploring how social structural factors as well as antisocial behavior mediate the relationship between race/ethnicity/color and arrest. Results suggest that focusing on the racial/ethnic disparities alone masks differences in arrest by color and that the effect of color varies by race/ethnicity. Results also suggest that measures indicative of disadvantage, but not offending, partially explain these associations. |
| Databáze: | OpenAIRE |
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