A Third Party’s Judgment in Same-Race and Cross-Race CrimesSpringer Science and Business Media LLC - Tập 11 - Trang 253-267 - 2019
Jungwon Lee, Mawia Khogali, Nikoleta M. Despodova, Steven D. Penrod
Prior studies investigating racial bias in legal decisions have involved race combinations of an observer, defendant, and victim where the observers’ race was the same as either the defendants’ or victims’ race. Because of the research designs employed in those prior studies, the effects of the three actors all being of different races have not been investigated. It is timely to investigate race e...... hiện toàn bộ
An Application of Machine Learning for Predicting Rearrests: Significant Predictors for JuvenilesSpringer Science and Business Media LLC - Tập 10 - Trang 42-52 - 2017
Yoshiko Takahashi, Len T. Evans
This study examined the influence of the individual and social background in predicting the rearrest of 1124 juveniles who were first brought into the juvenile detention center in a midsized county in California. Independent variables include demographic characteristics, first offense type, gang affiliation, usage of drug, and family characteristics. Using cross-validation to choose an appropriate...... hiện toàn bộ
“Crime” in Context: Racialized Physical Space Shifts Person-PerceptionSpringer Science and Business Media LLC - Tập 15 - Trang 140-153 - 2022
Drexler James, Courtney M. Bonam, Valerie Jones Taylor
People often assume areas where black people live are dangerous, impoverished, and rundown, whereas they assume White areas to be safe, wealthy, and well-maintained (Bonam et al. in J Exp Psychol Gen 145(11):1561–1582, 2016). These space-focused racial stereotypes shape how people perceive, evaluate, and treat physical space, such as houses and neighborhoods. Further, people often associate specif...... hiện toàn bộ
Considering Racial Attitudes and Empathic Concern as Predictors of Prosocial Behaviors Among Emerging AdultsSpringer Science and Business Media LLC - - 2020
Alexandra N. Davis
The goal of the current study was to examine the role of racial attitudes, empathic concern, and prosocial behaviors among emerging adults. Research linking racial attitudes to emerging adults’ moral development and prosocial behaviors is limited, and therefore the current study aimed to assess the interrelations among racial attitudes and empathic concern and links to two forms of prosocial behav...... hiện toàn bộ
Automatic Prejudice and Weapon Identification: A Study with Students and Police OfficersSpringer Science and Business Media LLC - Tập 15 - Trang 154-165 - 2022
Gilcimar Santos Dantas, Marcus Vinicius Alves, Marcos Emanoel Pereira
The objective of this study was to explore police officers’ beliefs, meaning whether a “crime priming” is capable of showing automatic prejudice in the identification of weapons and whether a crime reduction priming can mitigate it, seeking to understand which processes can make the expression of racism more evident. With that we conducted two experiments with police officers (N = 80) and universi...... hiện toàn bộ
School District Lines Stratify Educational Opportunity by Race and PovertySpringer Science and Business Media LLC - Tập 7 - Trang 5-20 - 2014
Jennifer B. Ayscue, Gary Orfield
School segregation has serious consequences for educational opportunity and success. Across the nation, school segregation by race and poverty is deepening and varies by state. Using data from the National Center for Education Statistics, Common Core of Data, this study explores the relationship between fragmentation—the degree to which metropolitan areas are split into many separate school distri...... hiện toàn bộ