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Unfair by Design: The War on Drugs, Race, and the Legitimacy of the Criminal Justice System
Abstract
Over the past 30 years federal and state policies have increasingly pursued a harsh, "tough on crime" position. With the "war on drugs" and allied changes in sentencing practices and policing policies, the US has witnessed a sharp increase in the proportion of citizens incarcerated or under some form of supervision by the state. This transformation has fallen with special severity on African Americans, especially low-income black males. To many analysts, the deepening racialization of the chances of criminal incarceration was at least a foreseeable, if not predictable and intended, consequence of these policy changes. The purpose of this essay, based on new focus group research and newly designed national sample survey data, is to assess the perceptions and consequences of these changes for African Americans' judgments about the legitimacy of the criminal justice system.
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“The vast majority of both white and black respondents (90 and 93 percent, respectively) said they would call the police; however, only 35 percent of blacks expected to be taken seriously, compared with 60 percent of whites.”
From Police Violence and Citizen Crime Reporting in the Black Community (2016) · cites this paper as Bobo and Thompson 2006
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“The vast majority of both white and black respondents (90 and 93 percent, respectively) said they would call the police; however, only 35 percent of blacks expected to be taken seriously, compared with 60 percent of whites.”
From Police Violence and Citizen Crime Reporting in the Black Community (2016) · cites this paper as Bobo and Thompson 2006
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A TASTE FOR PUNISHMENT: Black and White Americans' Views on the Death Penalty and the War on Drugs
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- Bobo, L. D., & Thompson, V.
- Venue
- Social Research: An International Quarterly
- Publisher
- Project MUSE
- Published
- 2006-06
- Volume
- 73
- Issue
- 2
- Pages
- 445-472
- ISSN
- 1944-768X
- Cited by
- 173
- References
- 4
- Language
- en
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