Public belief in redeemability reduces punitiveness and increases support for policy
measures such as rehabilitation, expungement, and housing and employment opportunities …

Empirical research on public policy preferences must attend to Whites' animus toward
Blacks. For a quarter-century, studies have consistently found that Kinder and Sanders's four …

In recent years, the US public has become increasingly concerned about the immigration
issue. Criminological research and group threat theory suggest that harsh immigration policy …

In Who Are the Criminals?, John Hagan argues that legislators use “crisis framing” to
influence how the general public thinks about crime. President Ronald Reagan used reports …

Purpose Two dominant theoretical approaches used to explain racial and ethnic disparities
in criminal justice outcomes are focal concerns and group threat. This study tests …

Guns are present in many households in the US, including those with children. Safe storage
of guns at home can mitigate the increased risks of both the unintentional and intentional …

Secret informers are often the biggest threat faced by underground rebel groups, which must
respond to this challenge in order to survive. Using the IRA as a case-study, Penality in the …

Objectives In a period of mass protest, police use of force against protesters regularly makes
headlines across the country. Our study contributes to the literature on public opinion about …

Using a recent nationally representative sample of schools, this test of Minority Threat
Theory, which predicts greater use of punitive social controls in places with more people of …

This study aspires to address three important gaps in the Minority Threat literature by using
Multilevel Structural Equation Modeling (MSEM) to develop separate perceptual measures …