Minority threat and punishment: A cross-national analysis

Ruddell, Rick; Urbina, Martin Guevara

doi:10.1080/07418820400096031

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“…A tough stance on combating crime with the ultimate punishment available can be used to divert attention from these social and ethnic divisions (Garland 2001). Ruddell and Urbana (2004) provide some tentative evidence suggesting that more diverse countries have higher incarceration rates and are less likely to have abolished the death penalty.…”

Section: Other Determinants Of Death Penalty Abolitionmentioning

confidence: 96%

“…The same reasoning can be extended to the relationship between an ethnic majority and minorities. The death penalty might therefore be more likely to exist in economically more unequal and ethnically, racially or culturally more diverse countries (Linebaugh 1995;Ruddell and Urbana 2004). A tough stance on combating crime with the ultimate punishment available can be used to divert attention from these social and ethnic divisions (Garland 2001).…”

Section: Other Determinants Of Death Penalty Abolitionmentioning

confidence: 98%

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Death Penalty: The Political Foundations of the Global Trend Towards Abolition

Neumayer

2007

Hum Rights Rev

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Section: Other Determinants Of Death Penalty Abolitionmentioning

confidence: 96%

Section: Other Determinants Of Death Penalty Abolitionmentioning

confidence: 98%

Death Penalty: The Political Foundations of the Global Trend Towards Abolition

Neumayer

2007

Hum Rights Rev

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“…Such propositions have been widely tested in relation to pretrial release (Free 2004, Nagel 1983, sentencing (Bontrager, Bales and Chiricos 2005;Feldmeyer and Ulmer 2011;Jacobs and Carmichael 2002;Ruddell and Urbina 2004;Stolzenberg, D'Alessio and Eitle 2004;Wang 2012;Wang and Mears 2010), the size of police forces (Chamblin 1989;Stults and Baumer 2007), arrest (Chamlin and Liska 1992;Liska and Chamlin 1984;Parker, Stults and Rice 2005) and police use of deadly force (Liska and Yu 1992). Two studies on Louisiana voting patterns reveal a potential impact of changes in African-American populations on white voting patterns (Giles and Buckner 1998;Giles and Hertz 1994).…”

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Conceal Carry and Race: A Test of Minority Threat Theory in Law Generation

Mullins¹,

Kavish²

2017

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Conceal carry weapon (CCW) laws have generated a great deal of public discussion in the past decades, but little social science attention. Scholarly worked on the topic has been focused on finding potential effects of such laws on crime and victimization; little has attempted to explain the trends behind the adoption of the laws. This paper attempts to fill that gap by testing a series of hypotheses grounded in minority threat approaches. Our paper examines whether or not changes in the racial and ethnic composition of a county predict the voting outcome of Missouri's 1999 conceal-carry referendum. Findings fail to reject the null hypothesis and show the best predictor of the vote within a county was how that county voted in the 2000 Presidential election.

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“…The racial control or racial threat hypothesis is supported by cross-national research linking availability of the death penalty to ethnic heterogeneity (Ruddell & Urbina, 2004). Historical (Vandiver, Giacopassi, & Lofquist, 2006;Marquart, Ekland-Olson, & Sorenson, 1993) and contemporary (Lofquist, 2002) research on the United States has also found that the intensity of death penalty use varies according to levels of racial threat.…”

Section: The Political Sociology Of the Death Penaltymentioning

confidence: 80%

Executions in the Bahamas

Lofquist

2010

Int. j. Bahamian stud.

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The stories of those who have been executed in The Bahamas are heretofore untold. In telling these stories and in linking them to the changing course of Bahamian history, the present research adds an important dimension to our understanding of Bahamian history and politics. The major theme of this effort is that the changing practice of the death penalty is more than a consequence of changes in crime. The use of the death penalty parallels the changing dynamics of colonial and racial relations, resulting in four distinctive eras of death penalty practice: (1) the slave era, where executions and commutations were used liberally and with a clear racial patterning; (2) a long era of stable colonialism, characterized by poverty, economic and colonial marginalization, and few executions; (3) an era of unstable colonialism characterized by increasing racial political turmoil and intensive and efficient use of the death penalty; and (4) the current independence era of high murder rates and equally high impediments to the use of executions.

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Minority threat and punishment: A cross-national analysis

Cited by 63 publications

References 61 publications

Death Penalty: The Political Foundations of the Global Trend Towards Abolition

Death Penalty: The Political Foundations of the Global Trend Towards Abolition

Conceal Carry and Race: A Test of Minority Threat Theory in Law Generation

Executions in the Bahamas

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