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7. Protest and Police Abuse: Racial Limits on Perceived Accountability

verfasst von : Christian Davenport, Rose McDermott, David Armstrong

Erschienen in: Police Abuse in Contemporary Democracies

Verlag: Springer International Publishing

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Abstract

This chapter assesses the role of race in public perception of the need for accountability in cases of police abuse during protests in the United States. It finds that when protesters are black and police are white, African Americans are less likely to blame protesters, and when protesters are black and police are white, whites are less likely to blame police. The study utilizes a unique experimental dataset involving 423 respondents, which Davenport, McDermott, and Armstrong use to reveal how racial similarity or dissimilarity between protesters, police, observers, and respondents influences perceptions of who is to blame (police or protesters) for a particular conflict.

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Metadaten
Titel
Protest and Police Abuse: Racial Limits on Perceived Accountability
verfasst von
Christian Davenport
Rose McDermott
David Armstrong
Copyright-Jahr
2018
DOI
https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-72883-4_7