The typification of Hispanics as criminals and support for punitive crime control policies

Welch, Kelly; Payne, Allison Ann; Chiricos, Ted; Gertz, Marc

doi:10.1016/j.ssresearch.2010.09.012

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“…Some studies do conclude, in fact, that the increased expenditures have less to do with the size of the racial-ethnic minority population and more to do with whether perceptions of minority groups are associated with crime [17]. Linking racialized fear to police funding, Barkan and Cohn [18] conclude that racial prejudice is positively associated with increased criminal justice expenditures.…”

Section: Police Expendituresmentioning

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Racial Threat Theory: Assessing the Evidence, Requesting Redesign

Dollar

2014

Journal of Criminology

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Racial threat theory was developed as a way to explain how population composition influences discriminatory social control practices and has become one of the most acknowledged frameworks for explaining racial disparity in criminal justice outcomes. This paper provides a thorough review of racial threat theory and empirical assessments of the theory and demonstrates that while scholars often cite inconsistent support for the theory, empirical discrepancies may be due to insufficient attention to the conceptual complexity of racial threat. I organize and present the following review around 4 forms of state-sanctioned control mechanisms: police expenditures, arrests, sentencing, and capital punishment. Arguing that the pervasiveness of racialization in state controls warrants continued inquiry, I provide suggestions for future scholarship that will help us develop enhanced understanding of how racial threat may be operating.

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Section: Police Expendituresmentioning

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Racial Threat Theory: Assessing the Evidence, Requesting Redesign

Dollar

2014

Journal of Criminology

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“…9% from 1990to 2000(US Census Bureau, 2001. Moreover, research suggests that Latino crime typification began occurring during the 1990s (Beckett & Sasson, 2000;Steffensmeier & Demuth, 2001), continuing through the decade of 2000 (Welch, Payne, Chiricos, & Gertz, 2011). Given the highly visible pattern of Latino immigration in combination with criminal stereotypes (e.g.…”

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Racial Encroachment and the Formal Control of Space: Minority Group-Threat and Misdemeanor Arrests in Urban Communities

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Gustafson

Bruell

2013

Justice Quarterly

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“…There are similarly strong stereotypical associations of Latinos with predisposition to violence, criminality, and membership in street gangs (Bender, 2003 ;Holmes, Smith, Freng, & Muñoz, 2008 ;MacLin & Herrera, 2006 ;Niemann et al, 1994 ;Welch, Payne, Chiricos, & Gertz, 2011 ). Of course, many among the Latino population are immigrants (some illegal immigrants), and public opinion has associated immigrants with crime, despite the lack of evidence of such a link (Martinez & Lee, 2000 ).…”

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Interrogation and the Minority Suspect: Pathways to True and False Confession

Villalobos

Davis

2016

Advances in Psychology and Law

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Eddie Torbio-Ruiz was asked to come to the police station in Reno, Nevada, voluntarily, to discuss allegations that he had sexually molested his girlfriend's two underage granddaughters. Although Eddie's native language was Spanish and he spoke English poorly, he was interrogated by English-speaking Detective Curtis Lampert. After asking a series of background questions, Lampert began an accusatory interrogation designed to cause Eddie to admit to the accusations against him. Throughout the interrogation, Lampert spoke faster than even native English speakers would understand easily. Though Eddie appeared superfi cially to understand Lampert, his problems with understanding became clearer as the interrogation progressed.Eddie initially denied all allegations, but Detective Lampert was a master interrogator who very cleverly enacted strategies interrogation scholars have shown to promote both true and false confessions. As Lampert used these strategies to move Eddie from denial to admission, Eddie appeared to admit to sexually abusive behaviors with the girls. But at several points he answered "yes" to questions or assertions that he had committed specifi c actions toward the girls, only to answer with a vehement "Oh, no!" when asked the very same question only a short time later. At many points in the interrogation, it was diffi cult to clearly infer that he knew what he had been asked, what he was responding to, or whether he and Detective Lampert were talking about the same things. Perhaps the clearest indicator of Eddie's misunderstanding came after he had been charged. When his attorney, Jennifer Lunt, tried to tell him the implications of his confession, Eddie denied that

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The typification of Hispanics as criminals and support for punitive crime control policies

Cited by 102 publications

References 67 publications

Racial Threat Theory: Assessing the Evidence, Requesting Redesign

Racial Threat Theory: Assessing the Evidence, Requesting Redesign

Racial Encroachment and the Formal Control of Space: Minority Group-Threat and Misdemeanor Arrests in Urban Communities

Interrogation and the Minority Suspect: Pathways to True and False Confession

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