{"id":216,"date":"2007-04-18T17:04:00","date_gmt":"2007-04-18T23:04:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/pubcrim\/2007\/04\/18\/race-inequality-and-incarceration\/"},"modified":"2007-04-18T17:04:00","modified_gmt":"2007-04-18T23:04:00","slug":"race-inequality-and-incarceration","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/pubcrim\/2007\/04\/18\/race-inequality-and-incarceration\/","title":{"rendered":"race, inequality, and incarceration"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>i&#8217;m still processing wednesday&#8217;s <a href=\"http:\/\/www.stanford.edu\/group\/iriss\/conferences\/rii.html\">conference<\/a> on race, inequality, and incarceration &#8212; a day of grim but powerful presentations from law, political science, criminal Justice, and sociology. two sets of studies were especially striking:<\/p>\n<p>first, political scientists jon <a href=\"http:\/\/www.pitt.edu\/~politics\/faculty\/hurwitz.html\">hurwitz <\/a>and mark <a href=\"http:\/\/www.as.uky.edu\/polisci\/polisci_peffley.htm\">peffley<\/a> presented some disturbing experimental public opinion research. for example, they find that whites are significantly less supportive of spending money to &#8220;lock up violent criminals&#8221; than to &#8220;lock up <a href=\"http:\/\/poq.oxfordjournals.org\/cgi\/content\/abstract\/69\/1\/99?rss=1\">violent <em>inner-city <\/em>criminals<\/a>.&#8221; worse, white support for the death penalty <em>actually freaking <a href=\"http:\/\/www.uky.edu\/AS\/PoliSci\/Peffley\/pdf\/Peffley%20&amp;%20Hurwitz%20Arguments%20Against%20Death%20Penalty%20%20(7-11-05).pdf\">rises<\/a> <\/em>when respondents are given the additional cue that &#8220;<em>Some people say that the death penalty is unfair because most of the people who are executed are African Americans.&#8221; <\/em>sixty-five percent of white respondents supported the death penalty in the baseline condition versus <em>77 percent <\/em>once race is introduced.<\/p>\n<p>jennifer <a href=\"http:\/\/www.stanford.edu\/~eberhard\/\">eberhardt<\/a> of stanford psychology then presented some of the most powerful experimental research i&#8217;ve seen on visual perception and the racialization of crime. for example, she found that a flashed image of a black face enhances perceivers&#8217; ability to detect degraded images of crime-relevant objects such as guns.<\/p>\n<p>as the evidence mounted, i kept reworking my talk so that the day&#8217;s last session would include at least a <a href=\"http:\/\/news-service.stanford.edu\/news\/2007\/april18\/race-041807.html\">sliver of optimism<\/a>. in the interviews i&#8217;ve done since the conference, however, i&#8217;ve been tongue-tied when talking about race. am i <em>deepening <\/em>white opposition to reenfranchisement by saying that felon voting laws exact a greater toll on communities of color?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>i&#8217;m still processing wednesday&#8217;s conference on race, inequality, and incarceration &#8212; a day of grim but powerful presentations from law, political science, criminal Justice, and sociology. two sets of studies were especially striking: first, political scientists jon hurwitz and mark peffley presented some disturbing experimental public opinion research. for example, they find that whites are [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-216","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/pubcrim\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/216","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/pubcrim\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/pubcrim\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/pubcrim\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/4"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/pubcrim\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=216"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/pubcrim\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/216\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/pubcrim\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=216"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/pubcrim\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=216"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/pubcrim\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=216"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}