A TASTE FOR PUNISHMENT: Black and White Americans' Views on the Death Penalty and the War on Drugs

By L. Bobo, Devon Johnson. Du Bois Review: Social Science Research on Race, 2004

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Subfields: Sociology and Political Science

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Black Racial Stereotypes and Victim Blaming: Implications for Media Coverage and Criminal Proceedings in Cases of Police Violence against Racial and Ethnic Minorities (2017, background): “Relatedly, other work regarding the criminal justice system and sentencing suggests that harsher punishments are given for crimes involving racial and ethnic minorities compared to crimes involving Whites (e.g., Bobo & Johnson, 2004; Russell, 1998).”
Persuasion and Resistance: Race and the Death Penalty in America (2007, background): “Bobo and Johnson (2004), for example, provided respondents with information suggesting (but not explicitly stating) that the death penalty is racially unfair (e.g., “Blacks are about 12% of the US population, but they are almost half (43”
When Race Matters and When It Doesn't: Racial Group Differences in Response to Racial Cues (2007, background): “Not only do most studies of racial priming not include analysis of Black opinion (but see Gilliam and Iyengar 2000 and Bobo and Johnson 2004), but most studies of Black public opinion do not consider the possibility of the manipulability of the attachment of race to political issues for Blacks.”
Striking Out: Race and Support for Police Use of Force (2009, methodology): “See the appendix in Bobo and Johnson (2004) for a discussion and tables summarizing these comparative analyses. weighted to account for non-response bias and sampling error and were analyzed using ordinary least squares regression.7 Coding for the variables included in the analyses follows, and…”
Procedural Justice and Order Maintenance Policing: A Study of Inner‐City Young Men’s Perceptions of Police Legitimacy (2010, background): “The desire for police protection and effective law enforcement transcends racial and economic lines, and even groups who have historically suffered injustices at the hands of police want something done about local crime and disorder (Brooks, 2000; see also Bobo & Johnson, 2004).”
Anger about crime and support for punitive criminal justice policies (2009, methodology): “Researchers have noted that punitive attitudes are often difficult to change, given their stable, social psychological underpinnings (Tyler and Weber, 1982; Tyler and Boeckmann, 1997; Bobo and Johnson, 2004).”