SOC 134 Lecture Notes - Lecture 8: Little Rock Central High School, American Indian Boarding Schools, Slavery Among The Indigenous Peoples Of The Americas
Document Summary
People are afraid of aa and think that they bring crime everywhere. People who live in areas with a higher proportion of young black men think their neighborhood has a higher crime rate than do people in majority-white neighborhoods. Racist ( in this experiment, it was white people who saw this) view that young black men = high crime rate. 1990-98: murder rate fell by 20% but stories about murder on network news increased by 600% Crimes committed against black men under-reported, and crimes against white women over-reported. Racialized fear of crime has been exploited by law and order politicians and policymakers to institute harsher penalties for crime. Three strike law and mandatory minimum sentences. Disproportionately hits poc and black people harder. Racialized fear has also been used to garner public support for racialized policing practices. Nationally, 13/100 blacks are arrested annually, compared to 5/100 whites.
