RT Article
T1 Gender and Racial Gaps in Support for Policing and Correctional Reforms: are the Gaps a Consequence of Political Partisanship?
JF Crime & delinquency
VO 69
IS 9
SP 1672
OP 1699
A1 Hansen, Michael
A2 Navarro, John
LA English
YR 2023
UL https://krimdok.uni-tuebingen.de/Record/1869128818
AB Divisive criminal justice issues are typically framed through gender and racial lenses, with little empirical work considering the increasing role of political partisanship. Using the 2016 Cooperative Congressional Election Study (N = 55,000), we estimate multivariate models of support for four policing and correctional reforms. The models initially point to gender gaps and racial gaps. However, as with many public policy issues, support for criminal justice reforms are largely a product of political partisanship—the gender and racial gaps are largely a consequence of gender and racial gaps in partisanship and appear to be driven by white Republican men. As legislative bodies continue to be overrepresented with individuals with the same demographic profile, criminal justice reform prospects are limited.
K1 gender and race
K1 Partisanship
K1 Sentencing
K1 Policing
K1 Criminal justice reform
DO 10.1177/00111287211064788