Playing the race card in the post-Willie Horton era The impact of racialized code words on support for punitive crime policy

Public Opinion Quarterly

Volumn 69, Issue 1, 2005, Pages 99-112

  Hurwitz, Jon ^a   Peffley, Mark ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF PITTSBURGH   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF KENTUCKY   (United States)

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EID: 24144492121     PISSN: 0033362X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1093/poq/nfi004     Document Type: Article

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