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Education and the Interface between Racial Perceptions and Criminal Justice Attitudes

Document Type

Article

Keywords

Race, Crime, Education

Journal/Book/Conference Title

Political Psychology

Volume

26

Issue

1

First Page

47

Last Page

75

Abstract

Recent work has implicated negative attitudes toward blacks in support for toughened criminal-justice measures. This suggests that the issue of crime may be implicitly “racialized,” despite a lack of overt racial content. The present study examines the hypothesis that education may weaken the relationship between negative racial perceptions and crime-related policy attitudes. In contrast to traditional views about the role of education in the domain of race-related attitudes, the results of analyses using several different general-population samples suggest that the effects of education are somewhat paradoxical: they reduce the intensity of negative racial perceptions, while bolstering the relationship between these perceptions and criminal justice attitudes.

Department

Department of Political Science

Original Publication Date

2-1-2005

DOI of published version

10.1111/j.1467-9221.2005.00409.x

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