Racial Resentment and Attitudes Toward the Use of Force by Police: An Over‐Time Trend Analysis

Carter, J. Scott; Corra, Mamadi

doi:10.1111/soin.12136

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“…For many citizens of the United States, the police are the key point of contact with the system and as such are the object upon which citizens project their racial and political attitudes about the system more broadly (Brown and Benedict 2002; Skogan 2006; Weitzer and Tuch 2005b). Evidence suggests that in the aggregate, attitudes about and support for the police had been reasonably stable across the last three decades, until very recently, as public support for Police has declined since 2015 (Carter and Corra 2016; Jones 2015; T. W. Smith 2017).…”

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“…Debates are doubtless bound up with deeper and established orientations to race, crime, the state, police, and attitudes about punitive justice. Building on a line of research investigating the racialization of crime policy and stereotypic criminalization of black Americans, researchers have only recently begun to sort out how these events influence policy attitudes about race and Criminal Justice in general (Carter and Corra 2016; Sawyer and Gampa 2018).…”

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The Value of Social Control: Racial Resentment, Punitiveness, and White Support for Spending on Law Enforcement

Morris

LeCount

2020

Sociological Perspectives

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A well-established body of research finds that racial resentment predicts support for punitive criminal justice policy. This article links racial resentment with punitiveness, expanding the existing research—a body of work that largely treats punitivity as a response to threat. Data for this study come from three nationally representative samples and incorporate individual and contextual factors. Key variables include Racial Resentment, Political Ideology, Punitiveness, Crime—both objective crime (i.e., county-level crime rates) and subjective crime (i.e., fear of crime), racial population characteristics, and theoretically relevant controls. Contextual factors help to clarify whether support for spending is a “rational” response to crime or a “nonrational” response to perceived racial threat as expressed through punitiveness. Findings indicate that, net of a host of factors, a punitive value orientation as well as racial resentment predicts support for increased spending on law enforcement. Our analysis also suggests that racial resentment and punitivity are more consistent and stronger predictors of support even when controlling for Crime. The article closes with a discussion of opportunity cost vis-à-vis law enforcement and other community needs. Implications for further study of race and criminal justice policy get discussed with suggestions for dealing with the future of identity-based politics.

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The Value of Social Control: Racial Resentment, Punitiveness, and White Support for Spending on Law Enforcement

Morris

LeCount

2020

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“…Thus, racial resentment also influences opinions on police use of force. Despite notions that white racial resentment has lessened over time, there is evidence that it has remained consistent and significant since 1986 (Carter and Corra, 2016). Additionally, group threat theory rationalizes the relationship between support of government spending on the Black community and approval of police use of force; because not only will the dominant group attempt to further their own interests, they will express negative feelings towards and attempt to inhibit the interests of oppressed groups.…”

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Strike More, Spend Less?: The Correlation between Opinions on Race Specific Government Spending and Feelings towards Police Use of Force

Irby¹

2017

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With the foundation of past research on the relationship between indicators of racial prejudice, police use of force and attitudes towards it, I use the General Social Survey (2016) to examine the relationship between feelings on government spending on the Black community and approval of police officers striking an adult male citizen under different circumstances. Using feelings towards government spending on the Black community as an independent variable enables me to interpret the coded and implicit anti-Black sentiments within police practices and approval towards them further. After analyzing a sample of 704 respondents, I found that those who believe that the government is spending too much on the Black community are more likely to approve of a police officer striking an adult male citizen under various circumstances. However, the results of the bivariate correlation and multivariate regression consistently demonstrate that the race of the respondent had the largest effect on respondent's approval of police officers striking citizens, with white respondents being more likely to approve of officers striking citizens under more conditions. These results are consistent with critical race theory, group threat theory and past research; it is pivotal in understanding how color-blind racism effects the extent to which police are held accountable for their actions.

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“…The findings of multiple consent decrees impacted the growth of scholarly interest involving police officers and the African American community (Carter & Corra, 2016). Advocacy, the value of human dignity, and engagement in social and criminal justice are core principles driving social work practice and scholarship (National Association of Social Workers [NASW], 2016b[NASW], , 2017.…”

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A Decade's Tale

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Robinson

Archibald

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According to the U.S. Department of Justice (US DOJ, 2016), African Americans have experienced disproportionate instances of police use of excessive force as a result of discriminatory practices and insufficient training. Officers are permitted to use appropriate force in specific situations; however, when force is excessive and deemed unnecessary, it then becomes an issue of concern. The U.S. Department of Justice was invited to investigate police departments that participated in the use of excessive force and a consent decree was developed with those departments to remedy the DOJ's findings. The researchers conducted a consent decree analysis examining government investigations of police practices throughout the U.S. between 2008 and 2018 comprising the following terms: police reform, consent decrees, settlement agreement, investigation reports, use-offorce, and policy to determine how prevalent excessive force was used towards African Americans. Findings indicated that within the decade, 14 cities were investigated, 12 were identified as using excessive force, with nine having their use-of-force policies available, and four municipalities using excessive force against African Americans. Social work values, advocacy, and cultural training were also identified to aid in the decrease of excessive force complaints.

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Racial Resentment and Attitudes Toward the Use of Force by Police: An Over‐Time Trend Analysis

Cited by 73 publications

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The Value of Social Control: Racial Resentment, Punitiveness, and White Support for Spending on Law Enforcement

The Value of Social Control: Racial Resentment, Punitiveness, and White Support for Spending on Law Enforcement

Strike More, Spend Less?: The Correlation between Opinions on Race Specific Government Spending and Feelings towards Police Use of Force

A Decade's Tale

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