Justice in America : the separate realities of blacks and whites / / Mark Peffley, Jon Hurwitz
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| Autore: |
Peffley Mark
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| Titolo: |
Justice in America : the separate realities of blacks and whites / / Mark Peffley, Jon Hurwitz
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| Pubblicazione: | Cambridge ; ; New York, : Cambridge University Press, 2010 |
| Edizione: | 1st ed. |
| Descrizione fisica: | 1 online resource (xiii, 259 pages) : digital, PDF file(s) |
| Disciplina: | 345.73/05 |
| Soggetto topico: | Discrimination in criminal justice administration - United States - Public opinion |
| Discrimination in law enforcement - United States | |
| Altri autori: |
HurwitzJon
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| Note generali: | Title from publisher's bibliographic system (viewed on 05 Oct 2015). |
| Nota di bibliografia: | Includes bibliographical references and index. |
| Nota di contenuto: | Introduction -- Racial bias in the justice system : reality and perception -- The role of fairness -- The consequences of fairness : polarized reactions to police brutality and racial profiling -- The consequences of fairness : support for punitive crime policies -- Conclusions. |
| Sommario/riassunto: | As reactions to the O. J. Simpson verdict, the Rodney King beating, and the Amadou Diallo killing make clear, whites and African Americans in the United States inhabit two different perceptual worlds, with the former seeing the justice system as largely fair and color blind and the latter believing it to be replete with bias and discrimination. The authors tackle two important questions in this book: what explains the widely differing perceptions, and why do such differences matter? They attribute much of the racial chasm to the relatively common personal confrontations that many blacks have with law enforcement - confrontations seldom experienced by whites. More importantly, the authors demonstrate that this racial chasm is consequential: it leads African Americans to react much more cynically to incidents of police brutality and racial profiling, and also to be far more skeptical of punitive anti-crime policies ranging from the death penalty to three-strikes laws. |
| Titolo autorizzato: | Justice in America |
| ISBN: | 0-511-85237-1 |
| 1-107-20345-7 | |
| 1-282-90814-6 | |
| 9786612908149 | |
| 0-511-76076-0 | |
| 0-511-93118-2 | |
| 0-511-93252-9 | |
| 0-511-92734-7 | |
| 0-511-92480-1 | |
| 0-511-92984-6 | |
| Formato: | Materiale a stampa  |
| Livello bibliografico | Monografia |
| Lingua di pubblicazione: | Inglese |
| Record Nr.: | 9910818180703321 |
| Lo trovi qui: | Univ. Federico II |
| Opac: | Controlla la disponibilità qui |
Serie:
Cambridge studies in public opinion and political psychology.