@article{ref1,
title="Reassessing the Racial Divide in Support for Capital Punishment: The Continuing Significance of Race",
journal="Journal of research in crime and delinquency",
year="2007",
author="Cullen, Francis T. and Unnever, J. D.",
volume="44",
number="1",
pages="124-158",
abstract="This project investigates the racial divide in support for capital punishment. The authors examine whether race has a direct effect on support for capital punishment and test whether the influence of race varies across class, being a native southerner, confidence in government officials, political orientation, and religious affiliation. Using data drawn from the General Social Survey, they find a substantial racial divide, with African Americans much less likely to support the death penalty. Furthermore, the analysis revealed little support for the &quot;spurious/social convergence&quot; hypothesis; shared factors that might be expected to bring African Americans and Whites together--class, confidence in government, conservative politics, regional location, and religious fundamentalism--either did not narrow African American-White punishment attitudes or, at best, had only modest effects. The Results suggest that the racial divide in support for capital punishment is likely to remain a point of symbolic contention in African American-White conceptions of criminal injustice in the United States.   <p>Language: en</p>",
language="en",
issn="0022-4278",
doi="",
url="http://dx.doi.org/"
}