Steven A Tuch
Biographic Data
| ID | 79353 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Steven A Tuch |
| GIVEN NAMES | Steven A |
| FAMILY NAME | Tuch |
| SIGNATURE | TUCH S A |
| AFFILIATIONS | George Washington University |
| VERIFIED | No |
| TOTAL WORKS | 33 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 1088 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 33 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 1981 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2023 |
| H-INDEX | 15 |
Racial Attitudes in the Deep South: Persistence and Change at the University of Alabama, 1963-2013
Using data from a unique series of surveys collected between 1963 and 2013, this study examines racial attitudes among young white adults in the Deep South over a 50-year period. Repeated surveys of University of Alabama students in 1963, 1966, 1969, 1972, 1983, 1988, and 2013 measured racial stereotypes, support for racial segregation, and in the 2013 study, racial resentment and support for ameliorative racial policies. Analyses show that in th…
An SPSS Companion for The Fundamentals of Social Research
An SPSS Companion for The Fundamentals of Social Research offers students the opportunity to delve into the world of SPSS using real data sets and statistical analysis techniques directly from Paul M. Kellstedt, Guy D. Whitten, and Steven A. Tuch's new textbook. Workbook sections parallel chapters in the main text, giving students a chance to apply the lessons and techniques learned in each chapter in a statistical software setting. Detailed chap…
The Fundamentals of Social Research
This textbook provides an introduction to the scientific study of sociology and other social sciences. It offers the basic tools necessary for readers to become both critical consumers and beginning producers of scientific research on society. The authors present an integrated approach to research design and empirical analyses in which researchers can develop and test causal theories. They use examples from social science research that students w…
Whites' Racial Policy Attitudes in the Twenty-First Century: The Continuing Significance of Racial Resentment
A topic of long-standing interest in racial attitudes research is whites' support for principles of racial equality on one hand coupled with their intransigence on policies designed to redress that inequality on the other. Much has been written on possible explanations of this "principle-policy gap" and what the gap reveals about the state of contemporary American race relations. In this article, the authors provide an update and partial replicat…
Police–Community Relations in a Majority-Black City
Minority racial and ethnic groups often view themselves as targets of abusive treatment at the hands of the police. Although racial variation in public assessments of the police in the United States has been amply documented in past research, less research has explored the sources of these differences at the intersection of demographic, interactional, and ecological levels. This article examines the role of each factor in shaping citizens' percep…
Race and Policing in America: Conflict and Reform
Race and Policing in America is about relations between police and citizens, with a focus on racial differences. It utilizes both the authors' own research and other studies to examine Americans' opinions, preferences, and personal experiences regarding the police. Guided by group-position theory and using both existing studies and the authors' own quantitative and qualitative data (from a nationally representative survey of whites, blacks, and H…
Determinants of Public Satisfaction with the Police
This article examines the determinants of citizen satisfaction with police. Using data from a recent nationwide survey of Whites, Hispanics, and African Americans, the authors test several hypotheses about how situational and structural factors shape attitudes toward the police. Much has been written about Black-White differences in views of the police, but most of this literature does little to explain why these differences exist. Moreover, very…
What's in a Name: Preference for "Black" versus "African-American" among Americans of African Descent
Journal Article What's in a Name? Preference for "Black" versus "African-American" among Americans of African Descent Get access Lee Sigelman, Lee Sigelman George Washington University This research was supported by grant RO1-AA-10243 from the National Institute on Alcohol Abuse and Alcoholism. Address correspondence to Lee Sigelman; e-mail: [email protected]. Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar Steven A. Tuch, Ste…
Racially Biased Policing: Determinants of Citizen Perceptions
The current controversy surrounding racial profiling in America has focused renewed attention on the larger issue of racial bias by the police. Yet little is known about the extent of police racial bias and even less about public perceptions of the problem. This article analyzes recent national survey data on citizens' views of and reported personal experiences with, several forms of police bias—including differential treatment of individuals and…
Reforming the Police: Racial Differences in Public Support for Change
While the literature has extensively documented popular discontent with various types of police misconduct, little is known about popular support for corrective measures. Such information, however, would be valuable for public policy and has the potential to enhance public confidence in the police. This article, using data from a recent national survey, reports public attitudes toward several specific reforms in policing. Findings indicate, first…
Race and Perceptions of Police Misconduct
This article examines perceptions of police misconduct in the United States and the factors that influence these perceptions. Using data from a large, nationally representative survey of whites, African Americans, and Hispanics, we examine how citizens' views of four types of police misconduct—verbal abuse, excessive force, unwarranted stops, and corruption—are shaped by race and other factors, including personal and vicarious experiences with po…
Gender Differences in Whites' Racial Attitudes: Are Women's Attitudes Really More Favorable
Michael Hughes, Steven A. Tuch, Gender Differences in Whites' Racial Attitudes: Are Women's Attitudes Really More Favorable?, Social Psychology Quarterly, Vol. 66, No. 4, Special Issue: Race, Racism, and Discrimination (Dec., 2003), pp. 384-401
Problem Drinking Patterns among African Americans: The Impacts of Reports of Discrimination, Perceptions of Prejudice, and 'Risky' Coping Strategies
This research builds on a series of recent studies that have reported independent effects of personal experiences of racial discrimination on poor mental health outcomes. We suggest that for one mental health outcome, problem drinking, discrimination experiences have an impact not only via abridged socioeconomic attainment and the frustrations associated with institutionally limited opportunity structures, but also by directly increasing the like…
Perceptions of Racial Profiling: Race, Class, and Personal Experience
Racial profiling by the police has become an increasingly controversial issue in recent years, but we know little about the extent of the problem and even less about public perceptions of profiling. This article analyzes recent national survey data on citizens' views of racial profiling. We find that both race and personal experience with profiling are strong predictors of attitudes toward profiling and that, among blacks, social class affects vi…
The Profession of Medicine and the Public: Examining Americans' Changing Confidence in Physician Authority from the Beginning of the 'Health Care Crisis' to the Era of Health Care Reform
Recent work on the sociology of the professions, in general, and on the profession of medicine, in particular, target dramatic changes in the organization of social institutions, "boundary work" among professionals, and the implications of both for professional power. However, public attitudes cited in theories as a critical linchpin of professional status remain relatively unexplored in the face of these changes and widespread contentions of pub…
Of Fear and Loathing: The Role of 'Disturbing Behavior,' Labels, and Causal Attributions in Shaping Public Attitudes toward People with Mental Illness
Our paper couples previous research on attitudes toward people with illness and more general sociological research on attitudes toward out-groups to examine the role offive factors that influence the public s willingness to interact with people with health problems, including. the nature of the behavior described, causal attributions of the behavior s source, perceived dangerousness of the person, the label of mental illness, and the sociodemogra…
Race, Class, and Perceptions of Discrimination by the Police
Previous research has shown that Blacks are more likely than Whites to hold unfavorable opinions of criminal justice agencies in America, but the literature has rarely examined whether social class also affects these opinions. Using recent national survey data on perceptions of racial discrimination by the police and the criminal justice system, this study examines the effects of race and class on citizen attitudes. The findings indicate that (1)…
Trends: Race Relations and American Youth, 1976-1995
Journal Article Trends: Race Relations and American Youth, 1976-1995 Get access STEVEN A. TUCH, STEVEN A. TUCH Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar LEE SIGELMAN, LEE SIGELMAN Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar JASON A. MACDONALD JASON A. MACDONALD Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar Public Opinion Quarterly, Volume 63, Issue 1, May 1999,…
Racial Attitudes in the 1990s: Continuity and Change
More than half a century has passed since the publication of An American Dilemma: The Negro Problem and Modern Democracy , Gunnar Myrdal's agonizing portrait of the pervasiveness of racially prejudiced attitudes and discriminatory practices in American life. Central to Myrdal's work was the paradox posed by the coexistence of race-based social, economic, and political inequality on the one hand, and the cherished American cultural values of freed…
Metastereotypes: Blacks' Perceptions of Whites' Stereotypes of Blacks
Les AA. se demandent comment les afro-americains percoivent les stereotypes qui temoignent des prejuges dont ils sont victimes de la part des blancs. Ils soulignent que ces stereotypes concernent la moralite, la violence, l'intelligence, le patriotisme, la toxicomanie, l'alcoolisme, la piete, le dynamisme, l'autodiscipline et les capacites sportives. Ils presentent un certain nombre de donnees collectees aux Etats-Unis en 1991 et mettent en evide…
Trends: Racial Differences in Attitudes Toward the Police
Journal Article Trends: Racial Differences in Attitudes Toward the Police Get access STEVEN A. TUCH, STEVEN A. TUCH Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar RONALD WEITZER RONALD WEITZER Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar Public Opinion Quarterly, Volume 61, Issue 4, February 1997, Pages 642–663, https://doi.org/10.1086/297822 Published: 01 February 1997
Race and life satisfaction in the middle class
This article examines Black‐White differences in life satisfaction among members of the middle class. Using national survey data for the period 1984 to 1994, its analysis shows that although the sources of satisfaction do not differ appreciably by race, middle‐class Blacks express lower absolute levels of satisfaction with several facets of their lives than middle‐class Whites. Controls for sociodemographic and social participation variables do n…
Voting in the ASA: Revisited but not revised reply to krol
Voting in professional associations: The case of the American sociological association revisited
Race in the Workplace: Black/White Differences in the Sources of Job Satisfaction
Previous research on job satisfaction largely ignores possible race differences in its determinants. This study examines two explanations of a race/job satisfaction relationship: a structural perspective focuses on objective job rewards; a dispositional, on the role of worker orientations. The former implies that characteristics of race; the latter, that race leads to distinctive job needs and values and thus contributes to black/white difference…
Perceptions of Racial Profiling: Race, Class, and Personal Experience
Racial profiling by the police has become an increasingly controversial issue in recent years, but we know little about the extent of the problem and even less about public perceptions of profiling. This article analyzes recent national survey data on citizens' views of racial profiling. We find that both race and personal experience with profiling are strong predictors of attitudes toward profiling and that, among blacks, social class affects vi…
Race and Perceptions of Police Misconduct
This article examines perceptions of police misconduct in the United States and the factors that influence these perceptions. Using data from a large, nationally representative survey of whites, African Americans, and Hispanics, we examine how citizens' views of four types of police misconduct—verbal abuse, excessive force, unwarranted stops, and corruption—are shaped by race and other factors, including personal and vicarious experiences with po…
Racially Biased Policing: Determinants of Citizen Perceptions
The current controversy surrounding racial profiling in America has focused renewed attention on the larger issue of racial bias by the police. Yet little is known about the extent of police racial bias and even less about public perceptions of the problem. This article analyzes recent national survey data on citizens' views of and reported personal experiences with, several forms of police bias—including differential treatment of individuals and…
Trends: Racial Differences in Attitudes Toward the Police
Journal Article Trends: Racial Differences in Attitudes Toward the Police Get access STEVEN A. TUCH, STEVEN A. TUCH Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar RONALD WEITZER RONALD WEITZER Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar Public Opinion Quarterly, Volume 61, Issue 4, February 1997, Pages 642–663, https://doi.org/10.1086/297822 Published: 01 February 1997
Problem Drinking Patterns among African Americans: The Impacts of Reports of Discrimination, Perceptions of Prejudice, and 'Risky' Coping Strategies
This research builds on a series of recent studies that have reported independent effects of personal experiences of racial discrimination on poor mental health outcomes. We suggest that for one mental health outcome, problem drinking, discrimination experiences have an impact not only via abridged socioeconomic attainment and the frustrations associated with institutionally limited opportunity structures, but also by directly increasing the like…
Of Fear and Loathing: The Role of 'Disturbing Behavior,' Labels, and Causal Attributions in Shaping Public Attitudes toward People with Mental Illness
Our paper couples previous research on attitudes toward people with illness and more general sociological research on attitudes toward out-groups to examine the role offive factors that influence the public s willingness to interact with people with health problems, including. the nature of the behavior described, causal attributions of the behavior s source, perceived dangerousness of the person, the label of mental illness, and the sociodemogra…
Whites' Racial Policy Attitudes in the Twenty-First Century: The Continuing Significance of Racial Resentment
A topic of long-standing interest in racial attitudes research is whites' support for principles of racial equality on one hand coupled with their intransigence on policies designed to redress that inequality on the other. Much has been written on possible explanations of this "principle-policy gap" and what the gap reveals about the state of contemporary American race relations. In this article, the authors provide an update and partial replicat…
Metastereotypes: Blacks' Perceptions of Whites' Stereotypes of Blacks
Les AA. se demandent comment les afro-americains percoivent les stereotypes qui temoignent des prejuges dont ils sont victimes de la part des blancs. Ils soulignent que ces stereotypes concernent la moralite, la violence, l'intelligence, le patriotisme, la toxicomanie, l'alcoolisme, la piete, le dynamisme, l'autodiscipline et les capacites sportives. Ils presentent un certain nombre de donnees collectees aux Etats-Unis en 1991 et mettent en evide…
Urbanism, Region, and Tolerance Revisited: The Case of Racial Prejudice
This research examines whether the propositions of Wirth (1938) and Stouffer (1955) concerning the effects on tolerance of urbanism, region, and particular geographic migration patterns can be generalized to racial tolerance. Using prejudice toward blacks as the outcome measure, an analysis of national survey data for the years between 1972 and 1985 indicates that (a) consistent with Wirth's and Stouffer's arguments, urbanites and non-Southerners…
Gender Differences in Whites' Racial Attitudes: Are Women's Attitudes Really More Favorable
Michael Hughes, Steven A. Tuch, Gender Differences in Whites' Racial Attitudes: Are Women's Attitudes Really More Favorable?, Social Psychology Quarterly, Vol. 66, No. 4, Special Issue: Race, Racism, and Discrimination (Dec., 2003), pp. 384-401
Reforming the Police: Racial Differences in Public Support for Change
While the literature has extensively documented popular discontent with various types of police misconduct, little is known about popular support for corrective measures. Such information, however, would be valuable for public policy and has the potential to enhance public confidence in the police. This article, using data from a recent national survey, reports public attitudes toward several specific reforms in policing. Findings indicate, first…
The Profession of Medicine and the Public: Examining Americans' Changing Confidence in Physician Authority from the Beginning of the 'Health Care Crisis' to the Era of Health Care Reform
Recent work on the sociology of the professions, in general, and on the profession of medicine, in particular, target dramatic changes in the organization of social institutions, "boundary work" among professionals, and the implications of both for professional power. However, public attitudes cited in theories as a critical linchpin of professional status remain relatively unexplored in the face of these changes and widespread contentions of pub…
Trends: Race Relations and American Youth, 1976-1995
Journal Article Trends: Race Relations and American Youth, 1976-1995 Get access STEVEN A. TUCH, STEVEN A. TUCH Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar LEE SIGELMAN, LEE SIGELMAN Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar JASON A. MACDONALD JASON A. MACDONALD Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar Public Opinion Quarterly, Volume 63, Issue 1, May 1999,…
What's in a Name: Preference for "Black" versus "African-American" among Americans of African Descent
Journal Article What's in a Name? Preference for "Black" versus "African-American" among Americans of African Descent Get access Lee Sigelman, Lee Sigelman George Washington University This research was supported by grant RO1-AA-10243 from the National Institute on Alcohol Abuse and Alcoholism. Address correspondence to Lee Sigelman; e-mail: [email protected]. Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar Steven A. Tuch, Ste…
Race in the Workplace: Black/White Differences in the Sources of Job Satisfaction
Previous research on job satisfaction largely ignores possible race differences in its determinants. This study examines two explanations of a race/job satisfaction relationship: a structural perspective focuses on objective job rewards; a dispositional, on the role of worker orientations. The former implies that characteristics of race; the latter, that race leads to distinctive job needs and values and thus contributes to black/white difference…
Race and life satisfaction in the middle class
This article examines Black‐White differences in life satisfaction among members of the middle class. Using national survey data for the period 1984 to 1994, its analysis shows that although the sources of satisfaction do not differ appreciably by race, middle‐class Blacks express lower absolute levels of satisfaction with several facets of their lives than middle‐class Whites. Controls for sociodemographic and social participation variables do n…
Theories of Race and Ethnic Relations
Economic Sector and Job Satisfaction
In this article the relationship between economic sector and job satisfaction is explored. Given the absence of previous research, a framework relying on job satisfaction, dual labor market, and economic-segmentation literature is used to create two alternative hypotheses. If the externally defined objective characteristics of jobs are the critical factor in producing job satisfaction, then the 'better' jobs in the core sector will result in job …
Analyzing Recent Trends in Prejudice Toward Blacks: Insights from Latent Class Models
This research note applies latent structure methods to the analysis of a set of survey items designed to measure prejudice toward blacks. Data from 1972 and 1977 national samples are employed to demonstrate the utility of latent structure techniques in analyzing trends over time in prejudiced attitudes. Various latent class models are presented and evaluated, and a four-class quasi-latent structure model is found to best describe the data in both…
Voting in professional associations: The case of the American sociological association revisited
The Determinants of Marital Instability: Some Methodological Issues
Economic Segmentation and Racial Attitudes
This article explores the potential contributions of the economic segmentation framework in stratification research to the explanation of racial attitudes and beliefs. Employing data from a nationally representative telephone survey, the impact of sectoral location on whites' views about the institutional production of racial inequality is examined. The findings indicate that, unlike the effects of traditional stratification variables, position i…
Analyzing Recent Trends in Prejudice Toward Blacks: Insights from Latent Class Models
This research note applies latent structure methods to the analysis of a set of survey items designed to measure prejudice toward blacks. Data from 1972 and 1977 national samples are employed to demonstrate the utility of latent structure techniques in analyzing trends over time in prejudiced attitudes. Various latent class models are presented and evaluated, and a four-class quasi-latent structure model is found to best describe the data in both…
A multivariate analysis of response structure: Race attitudes, 1972–1977
The Determinants of Marital Instability: Some Methodological Issues
The Determinants of Marital Instability: Another Methodological Issue
In this paper we note the inconsistent findings that characterize research on marital instability and propose several potential methodological sources of these inconsistencies. The issues addressed range from problems of external validity introduced by limited samples to the constraints imposed by the various multivariate analytic techniques utilized in previous research. An illustrative application to data from two recent nationally representati…
Urbanism, Region, and Tolerance Revisited: The Case of Racial Prejudice
This research examines whether the propositions of Wirth (1938) and Stouffer (1955) concerning the effects on tolerance of urbanism, region, and particular geographic migration patterns can be generalized to racial tolerance. Using prejudice toward blacks as the outcome measure, an analysis of national survey data for the years between 1972 and 1985 indicates that (a) consistent with Wirth's and Stouffer's arguments, urbanites and non-Southerners…
Economic Sector and Job Satisfaction
In this article the relationship between economic sector and job satisfaction is explored. Given the absence of previous research, a framework relying on job satisfaction, dual labor market, and economic-segmentation literature is used to create two alternative hypotheses. If the externally defined objective characteristics of jobs are the critical factor in producing job satisfaction, then the 'better' jobs in the core sector will result in job …
Economic Segmentation and Racial Attitudes
This article explores the potential contributions of the economic segmentation framework in stratification research to the explanation of racial attitudes and beliefs. Employing data from a nationally representative telephone survey, the impact of sectoral location on whites' views about the institutional production of racial inequality is examined. The findings indicate that, unlike the effects of traditional stratification variables, position i…
Theories of Race and Ethnic Relations
Voting in professional associations: The case of the American sociological association revisited
Race in the Workplace: Black/White Differences in the Sources of Job Satisfaction
Previous research on job satisfaction largely ignores possible race differences in its determinants. This study examines two explanations of a race/job satisfaction relationship: a structural perspective focuses on objective job rewards; a dispositional, on the role of worker orientations. The former implies that characteristics of race; the latter, that race leads to distinctive job needs and values and thus contributes to black/white difference…
Voting in the ASA: Revisited but not revised reply to krol
Racial Attitudes in the 1990s: Continuity and Change
More than half a century has passed since the publication of An American Dilemma: The Negro Problem and Modern Democracy , Gunnar Myrdal's agonizing portrait of the pervasiveness of racially prejudiced attitudes and discriminatory practices in American life. Central to Myrdal's work was the paradox posed by the coexistence of race-based social, economic, and political inequality on the one hand, and the cherished American cultural values of freed…
Metastereotypes: Blacks' Perceptions of Whites' Stereotypes of Blacks
Les AA. se demandent comment les afro-americains percoivent les stereotypes qui temoignent des prejuges dont ils sont victimes de la part des blancs. Ils soulignent que ces stereotypes concernent la moralite, la violence, l'intelligence, le patriotisme, la toxicomanie, l'alcoolisme, la piete, le dynamisme, l'autodiscipline et les capacites sportives. Ils presentent un certain nombre de donnees collectees aux Etats-Unis en 1991 et mettent en evide…
Trends: Racial Differences in Attitudes Toward the Police
Journal Article Trends: Racial Differences in Attitudes Toward the Police Get access STEVEN A. TUCH, STEVEN A. TUCH Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar RONALD WEITZER RONALD WEITZER Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar Public Opinion Quarterly, Volume 61, Issue 4, February 1997, Pages 642–663, https://doi.org/10.1086/297822 Published: 01 February 1997
Race and life satisfaction in the middle class
This article examines Black‐White differences in life satisfaction among members of the middle class. Using national survey data for the period 1984 to 1994, its analysis shows that although the sources of satisfaction do not differ appreciably by race, middle‐class Blacks express lower absolute levels of satisfaction with several facets of their lives than middle‐class Whites. Controls for sociodemographic and social participation variables do n…
Race, Class, and Perceptions of Discrimination by the Police
Previous research has shown that Blacks are more likely than Whites to hold unfavorable opinions of criminal justice agencies in America, but the literature has rarely examined whether social class also affects these opinions. Using recent national survey data on perceptions of racial discrimination by the police and the criminal justice system, this study examines the effects of race and class on citizen attitudes. The findings indicate that (1)…
Trends: Race Relations and American Youth, 1976-1995
Journal Article Trends: Race Relations and American Youth, 1976-1995 Get access STEVEN A. TUCH, STEVEN A. TUCH Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar LEE SIGELMAN, LEE SIGELMAN Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar JASON A. MACDONALD JASON A. MACDONALD Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar Public Opinion Quarterly, Volume 63, Issue 1, May 1999,…
Of Fear and Loathing: The Role of 'Disturbing Behavior,' Labels, and Causal Attributions in Shaping Public Attitudes toward People with Mental Illness
Our paper couples previous research on attitudes toward people with illness and more general sociological research on attitudes toward out-groups to examine the role offive factors that influence the public s willingness to interact with people with health problems, including. the nature of the behavior described, causal attributions of the behavior s source, perceived dangerousness of the person, the label of mental illness, and the sociodemogra…
The Profession of Medicine and the Public: Examining Americans' Changing Confidence in Physician Authority from the Beginning of the 'Health Care Crisis' to the Era of Health Care Reform
Recent work on the sociology of the professions, in general, and on the profession of medicine, in particular, target dramatic changes in the organization of social institutions, "boundary work" among professionals, and the implications of both for professional power. However, public attitudes cited in theories as a critical linchpin of professional status remain relatively unexplored in the face of these changes and widespread contentions of pub…
Perceptions of Racial Profiling: Race, Class, and Personal Experience
Racial profiling by the police has become an increasingly controversial issue in recent years, but we know little about the extent of the problem and even less about public perceptions of profiling. This article analyzes recent national survey data on citizens' views of racial profiling. We find that both race and personal experience with profiling are strong predictors of attitudes toward profiling and that, among blacks, social class affects vi…
Gender Differences in Whites' Racial Attitudes: Are Women's Attitudes Really More Favorable
Michael Hughes, Steven A. Tuch, Gender Differences in Whites' Racial Attitudes: Are Women's Attitudes Really More Favorable?, Social Psychology Quarterly, Vol. 66, No. 4, Special Issue: Race, Racism, and Discrimination (Dec., 2003), pp. 384-401
Problem Drinking Patterns among African Americans: The Impacts of Reports of Discrimination, Perceptions of Prejudice, and 'Risky' Coping Strategies
This research builds on a series of recent studies that have reported independent effects of personal experiences of racial discrimination on poor mental health outcomes. We suggest that for one mental health outcome, problem drinking, discrimination experiences have an impact not only via abridged socioeconomic attainment and the frustrations associated with institutionally limited opportunity structures, but also by directly increasing the like…
Reforming the Police: Racial Differences in Public Support for Change
While the literature has extensively documented popular discontent with various types of police misconduct, little is known about popular support for corrective measures. Such information, however, would be valuable for public policy and has the potential to enhance public confidence in the police. This article, using data from a recent national survey, reports public attitudes toward several specific reforms in policing. Findings indicate, first…
Race and Perceptions of Police Misconduct
This article examines perceptions of police misconduct in the United States and the factors that influence these perceptions. Using data from a large, nationally representative survey of whites, African Americans, and Hispanics, we examine how citizens' views of four types of police misconduct—verbal abuse, excessive force, unwarranted stops, and corruption—are shaped by race and other factors, including personal and vicarious experiences with po…
Determinants of Public Satisfaction with the Police
This article examines the determinants of citizen satisfaction with police. Using data from a recent nationwide survey of Whites, Hispanics, and African Americans, the authors test several hypotheses about how situational and structural factors shape attitudes toward the police. Much has been written about Black-White differences in views of the police, but most of this literature does little to explain why these differences exist. Moreover, very…
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