The typification of Hispanics as criminals and support for punitive crime control policies

Social Science Research

Volumn 40, Issue 3, 2011, Pages 822-840

  Welch, Kelly ^a   Payne, Allison Ann ^a   Chiricos, Ted ^b   Gertz, Marc ^b  

^a VILLANOVA UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b FLORIDA STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Ceiling effect; Contextual analyses; Ethnic threat; Nonlinear analyses; Punitiveness; Social control

Indexed keywords

EID: 79953227353     PISSN: 0049089X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.ssresearch.2010.09.012     Document Type: Article

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