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

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White Perceptions of Whether African Americans and Hispanics are Prone to Violence and Support for the Death Penalty (2012, methodology): “…and building on the extant research (Barkan and Cohn 2005; Chiricos, Welch, and Gertz 2004; Nielsen, Bonn, and Wilson 2010; Peffley, Hurwitz, and Sniderman 1997; Welch et al. 2011), we examine the degree to which White Americans perceive African Americans and Hispanics as prone to violent behavior.”
CONTROLLING OTHER PEOPLE'S CHILDREN: RACIALIZED VIEWS OF DELINQUENCY AND WHITES' PUNITIVE ATTITUDES TOWARD JUVENILE OFFENDERS ∗ (2012, background): “Two recent studies have shown that stereotypes associating Latinos with crime influence views about criminal punishments (Johnson et al., 2011; Welch et al., 2011).”
RECONSIDERING THE RELATIONSHIP BETWEEN PERCEIVED NEIGHBORHOOD RACIAL COMPOSITION AND WHITES' PERCEPTIONS OF VICTIMIZATION RISK: DO RACIAL STEREOTYPES MATTER? ∗ (2012, background): “Finally, the ceiling effect hypothesis predicts, and prior studies have found evidence of, a “ceiling effect” in racial and ethnic threat relationships, whereby indicators of threat have a larger impact on public opinion in contexts where the outcome variable would otherwise be low (e.g., Borg, 1997”