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Author Peffley, Mark, author.

Title Justice in America : the separate realities of blacks and whites / Mark Peffley, Jon Hurwitz
Published Cambridge ; New York : Cambridge University Press, 2010

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Description 1 online resource (xiii, 259 pages) : illustrations
Series Cambridge studies in public opinion and political psychology
Cambridge studies in public opinion and political psychology.
Contents Introduction -- Racial bias in the justice system : reality and perception -- The role of fairness -- The consequences of fairness : polarized reactions to police brutality and racial profiling -- The consequences of fairness : support for punitive crime policies -- Conclusions
Summary "As reactions to the O.J. Simpson verdict, the Rodney King beating, and the Amadou Diallo killing make clear, whites and African Americans in the United States inhabit two different perceptual worlds, with the former seeing the justice system as largely fair and color blind and the latter believing it to be replete with bias and discrimination. Drawing on data from a nation-wide survey of both races, the authors tackle two important questions in this book: what explains the widely differing perceptions, and why do such differences matter? They attribute much of the racial chasm to the relatively common personal confrontations that many blacks have with law enforcement - confrontations seldom experienced by whites. And more importantly, the authors demonstrate that this racial chasm is consequential: it leads African Americans to react much more cynically to incidents of police brutality and racial profiling, and also to be far more skeptical of punitive anti-crime policies ranging from the death penalty to three-strikes laws"--Publisher description
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references and index
Notes English
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Subject Criminal justice, Administration of -- United States -- Public opinion
Discrimination in criminal justice administration -- United States -- Public opinion
Discrimination in law enforcement -- United States
White people -- United States -- Attitudes
African Americans -- Attitudes
LAW -- Criminal Law -- General.
African Americans -- Attitudes
Criminal justice, Administration of -- Public opinion
Discrimination in law enforcement
Race relations
White people -- Attitudes
Rechtssystem
Rassendiskriminierung
Strafrechtspflege.
Strafvollzug.
Diskriminierung.
Öffentliche Meinung.
SUBJECT United States -- Race relations. http://id.loc.gov/authorities/subjects/sh85140494
Subject United States
USA
USA.
Form Electronic book
Author Hurwitz, Jon, author.
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