Justice in America - The Separate Realities of Blacks and Whites

Informationen zum Autor Mark Peffley is a Professor of Political Science at the University of Kentucky. He is co-editor of Perception and Prejudice: Race and Politics in the U.S. (1998) and the journal Political Behavior. His articles have appeared in numerous journals, including American Political Science Review, American Journal of Political Science, Journal of Politics, International Studies Quarterly, and Political Psychology. Jon Hurwitz is currently a Professor of Political Science at the University of Pittsburgh. He is co-editor of Perception and Prejudice: Race and Politics in the U.S. (1998) and the journal Political Behavior. His articles have appeared in numerous journals, including American Political Science Review, American Journal of Political Science, Journal of Politics, International Studies Quarterly, and Political Psychology. Klappentext Investigates how and why whites and African Americans have such radically different perceptions of the fairness of the justice system. Zusammenfassung Whites and African Americans in the United States inhabit two different perceptual worlds! with one seeing the justice system as largely color blind and the latter believing it to discriminate and be biased. Drawing on data from a nation-wide survey of both races! the authors explain the widely differing perceptions. Inhaltsverzeichnis 1. Introduction; 2. Racial bias in the justice system: reality and perception; 3. The role of fairness; 4. The consequences of fairness: polarized reactions to police brutality and racial profiling; 5. The consequences of fairness: support for punitive crime policies; 6. Conclusions; Appendix A. National survey and survey items; Appendix B. Examining reciprocal effects of unfair treatment and neighborhood discrimination.

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• Authors: Jon Hurwitz, Mark Peffley, Mark Hurwitz Peffley, Peffley Mark
• Publisher: Cambridge University Press ELT
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback / Softback
• Released: 28.06.2010
• EAN: 9780521134750
• ISBN: 978-0-521-13475-0
• No. of pages: 276
• Series: Cambridge Studies in Public Op; Cambridge Studies in Public Opinion and Political Psychology; Cambridge Studies in Public Op
• Subjects: Social sciences, law, business > Political science > Political science and political education; Ethnic Studies, Sociology, Psychology, POLITICAL SCIENCE / American Government / General, Politics & government, United States of America, USA, Crime and criminology, Law and society, sociology of law