Symbolic racism and Whites' attitudes towards punitive and preventive crime policies

Law and Human Behavior

Volumn 30, Issue 4, 2006, Pages 435-454

  Green, Eva G T ^a,b   Staerklé, Christian ^a,c   Sears, David O ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF LAUSANNE   (Switzerland)

^c UNIVERSITY OF GENEVA   (Switzerland)

Author keywords

Crime policies; Crime prevention; Crime punishment; Public opinion; Symbolic racism

Indexed keywords

ADULT; AFRICAN AMERICAN; AGED; ARTICLE; ATTITUDE; CRIMINAL JUSTICE; EUROPEAN AMERICAN; FEMALE; HUMAN; HUMAN EXPERIMENT; MALE; NORMAL HUMAN; POLICY; PUBLIC OPINION; RACISM; SOCIAL PSYCHOLOGY; SYMBOLIC RACISM; THEORY VALIDATION; UNITED STATES; VICTIM;

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; AGED; AGED, 80 AND OVER; ATTITUDE; CALIFORNIA; CRIME; EUROPEAN CONTINENTAL ANCESTRY GROUP; FEMALE; HUMANS; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; PREJUDICE; PUBLIC POLICY; PUNISHMENT; QUESTIONNAIRES; SYMBOLISM;

EID: 33747076668     PISSN: 01477307     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s10979-006-9020-5     Document Type: Article

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