Racial animus and its association with punitive sentencing and crime types: Do Australian community attitudes reflect the United States’?

The racial animus model argues that public support for punitive sentencing of criminal offenders is shaped by threat perceptions associated with cultural minority groups. This study applies the racial animus model to examine support for the punitive sentencing of criminal offenders in the United Sta...

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Authors: Brookman, Ruth (Author) ; Wiener, Carl (Author) ; DeSoto, William (Author) ; Tajalli, Hassan (Author)
Format: Electronic Article
Language:English
Published: 2022
In: Journal of criminology
Year: 2022, Volume: 55, Issue: 1, Pages: 23-46
Online Access: Volltext (lizenzpflichtig)
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Keywords:
African American
Australia
Indigenous
Punitive attitudes
United States
ethnic intolerance
minority group threat
racial animus
typification of crime