Disparate vantage points: Race,gender, county context,and attitudes about harsh punishments in the US |
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Affiliation: | 1. John Jay College of Criminal Justice and the Graduate Center, City University of New York, United States;2. University of Maryland, United States;1. Peace Research Institute Oslo, Norway;2. Goethe University Frankfurt, Germany;3. University of Utah, USA;1. Medical Oncology Service, Hospital Universitario Virgen de la Victoria of Málaga, Málaga, Spain;2. Medical Oncology Service, Complejo Hospitalario de Jaén, Jaén, Spain |
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Abstract: | In this paper, I use data from the General Social Survey, FBI Uniform Crime Reporting Statistics, and other sources to consider differences in attitudes about punishment among four groups—Black men, Black women, White men, and White women—as well as how these differences vary according to county crime rates. Centering my expectations about group-specific attitudes within conflict theory and prior empirical findings, I am guided by the presumption that race and gender are cultural categories that shape attitudes about punishment by influencing our interactions with the criminal justice system, and that the meaning of these cultural categories varies by context. Analyses provide some evidence that race, gender, and context interact to shape attitudes about punishment. Overall, this research improves our understanding of group differences in punitive attitudes and of the cultural context in which the US system of incarceration operates. |
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Keywords: | Attitudes Criminal punishment Race Gender County context Crime arrest rates |
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