An Analysis of Black-White Racial Differences in Public Support for Nonviolent Sentencing Reform
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 2415487 |
|---|---|
| Authors | Kevin H Wozniak (0000-0002-6542-0095) |
| Year | 2020 |
| Volume | 10 |
| Issue | 4 |
| Pages | 456-479 |
| Publication date | 2020-10-01 |
| Peer Reviewed | Yes |
| Open Access | Yes |
| Type | ARTICLE |
| Venue | Race and Justice (JOURNAL) |
| Journal identifiers | ISSN: 2153-3687 • E-ISSN: 2153-3687 |
| Publisher | SAGE Publications Inc (PUBLISHER) |
| DOI | 10.1177/2153368718768388 |
| OpenAlex | W2801131095 |
| Language | EN |
| Citations received | 7 |
| References cited | 63 |
I examine public support for sentencing reform for nonviolent offenders situated within a justice reinvestment context. I analyze data from a survey administered to a nationally representative sample of White and Black Americans. I pay particular attention to differences in support between the two races, and I analyze the degree to which ideological beliefs explain interracial differences. I find that a larger number of both Black and White people support, rather than oppose, sentencing property and drug offenders to community-based sanctions instead of prison, but the likelihood that a person will express support or opposition is related to several ideological beliefs and demographic characteristics. I find that racism and the belief that the criminal justice system is fair mediate the relationship between race and support for sentencing property offenders to community-based sanctions, but race continues to exert an independent effect in regard to sentencing drug offenders
Context (archaeology · Criminal justice · Criminology · Geography · Ideology · Mass incarceration · Opposition (politics · Political science · Politics · Prison · Race (biology · Racism · Sanctions · Sociology · White (mutation · Crime Patterns and Interventions · Criminal Justice and Corrections Analysis · Gender Studies · Law · Psychology · Psychopathy, Forensic Psychiatry, Sexual Offending · Social Psychology
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Black Silent Majority
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The Race Card
Making imprisonment unprofitable
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Public Support for Emergency Shelter Housing Interventions Concerning Stigmatized Populations
Neighborhood context of attitudes toward crime and reentry
Crime, punishment and segregation in the United States
What drives punitive beliefs
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Perceptions of Criminal Injustice, Symbolic Racism, and Racial Politics
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When Race Matters and When It Doesn't
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Experiments in Wording Questions
Spacing, Position, and Order
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Survey Research
Race, Ethnicity, and Youth Perceptions of Criminal Injustice
Unfair by Design
Legal Cynicism and (Subcultural?) Tolerance of Deviance
Sentencing of Convicted Offenders
Racially Biased Policing
The Boundaries of Blackness
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Disparate vantage points
| Unique citing works | 7 |
|---|---|
| Citations per year | 1,17 |
| Citation span | 2020 - 2025 (6) |
| Citation velocity | recent |
| Highly cited | No |
| Citation types | Neutral: 7 |