{"id":374,"date":"2008-02-18T16:26:00","date_gmt":"2008-02-18T22:26:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/pubcrim\/2008\/02\/18\/race-crime-and-the-scalabrine-counterfactual\/"},"modified":"2008-07-22T11:32:05","modified_gmt":"2008-07-22T17:32:05","slug":"race-crime-and-the-scalabrine-counterfactual","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/pubcrim\/2008\/02\/18\/race-crime-and-the-scalabrine-counterfactual\/","title":{"rendered":"race, crime, and the scalabrine counterfactual"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/pubcrim\/files\/blogger_import\/40-scalabrine.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" id=\"BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5168505846337504754\" src=\"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/pubcrim\/files\/blogger_import\/41-scalabrine.jpg\" border=\"0\" alt=\"\" \/><\/a>having just posted on an espn magazine article about perceptions of the <a href=\"http:\/\/chrisuggen.blogspot.com\/2008\/02\/how-urban-is-nba.html\">n.b.a. as an urban league<\/a>, i came across a similarly thought- provoking observation in the <a href=\"http:\/\/sports.espn.go.com\/espnmag\/story?id=3243770\">same issue<\/a>. brian scalabrine of the celtics offers this li&#8217;l thought experiment on race and perceived criminality:<\/p>\n<div><em>&#8220;I think the misperception of our league is definitely race-driven. Suppose that for a whole year, none of our players got into a fight, no one got arrested, no one got ticketed for speeding. Do you think the public would have a different opinion of the league? I bet not. But I do think public opinion would be completely different if 75% of the players in the NBA were white instead of black. And if our image problem is race-driven, we can&#8217;t control that.&#8221;<\/em><\/div>\n<p>i&#8217;m not sure he&#8217;s correct, but mr. scalabrine&#8217;s argument is so well-stated that i might have to try it out on my delinquency class this semester. having read the quote, i just had to check out <a href=\"http:\/\/scalabrine.com\/profile.html\">scalabrine.com<\/a> to see where the young man went to school and whether he might&#8217;ve taken a good sociology course or two. sure enough, his bio notes that mr. scalabrine &#8220;earned his degree in social science from USC.&#8221;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>having just posted on an espn magazine article about perceptions of the n.b.a. as an urban league, i came across a similarly thought- provoking observation in the same issue. brian scalabrine of the celtics offers this li&#8217;l thought experiment on race and perceived criminality: &#8220;I think the misperception of our league is definitely race-driven. Suppose [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[108],"tags":[14,31525],"class_list":["post-374","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-sports","tag-race","tag-sports"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/pubcrim\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/374","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=374"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/pubcrim\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/374\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/pubcrim\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=374"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/pubcrim\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=374"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/pubcrim\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=374"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}