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T1 Reassessing the Racial Divide in Support for Capital Punishment : The Continuing Significance of Race
JF Journal of research in crime and delinquency
VO 44
IS 1
SP 124
OP 158
A1 Unnever, James D.
A2 Cullen, Francis T. 1951-
LA English
YR 2007
UL https://krimdok.uni-tuebingen.de/Record/163932092X
AB This project investigates the racial divide in support for capital punishment. The authors examine whether race has a direct effect on support for capital punishment and test whether the influence of race varies across class, being a native southerner, confidence in government officials, political orientation, and religious affiliation. Using data drawn from the General Social Survey, they find a substantial racial divide, with African Americans much less likely to support the death penalty. Furthermore, the analysis revealed little support for the "spurious/social convergence" hypothesis; shared factors that might be expected to bring African Americans and Whites together - class, confidence in government, conservative politics, regional location, and religious fundamentalism - either did not narrow African American-White punishment attitudes or, at best, had only modest effects. The Results suggest that the racial divide in support for capital punishment is likely to remain a point of symbolic contention in African American-White conceptions of criminal injustice in the United States. ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR
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