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28 Crim. Just. & Behavior 3 (2001)

handle is hein.journals/crmjusbhv28 and id is 1 raw text is: DIFFERENTIAL SUPPORT FOR POLICE USE OF FORCE, THE DEATH PENALTY, AND PERCEIVED HARSHNESS OF THE COURTS Effects of Race, Gender, and Region SHAHEEN HALIM Texas A&M University BEVERLY L. STILES Midwestern State University Logistic regression models were estimated using the 1994 General Social Survey to examine effects of race, gender, and geographical region on support for various criminal justice policies. Dependent variables included support for capital punishment, perceived harshness of courts, and support for police use of force under five conditions of escalating severity. African Americans were less likely to support capital punishment and police use of force than their counterparts. These results were enhanced when re-estimated using only the southern sample. Thus, regional prejudices affect minorities' perceptions of bias in criminal justice policy and practices. How- ever, although African Americans were less likely to endorse police use of force in general, we found situationally specific instances in which African Americans did endorse police use of force. T here are two distinct approaches to law and deviance, which oper- ate under the basis of distinct a priori assumptions with regard to the origin of laws and norms. Consensus-oriented approaches (such as AUTHORS' NOTE: At the time this research was conducted, Shaheen Halim was a graduate student in the Department ofSociology at Texas A&M University. Beverly L. Stiles, Ph.D. is an assistant professor in the Department of Sociology at Midwestern State University. The authors would like to thank Paul Short of Texas A&M Univer- sity's Department of Psychology for his assistance in preparation of this article. Direct correspondence to Shaheen Halim, 5269 Bmokway, Columbia, MD 21044. CRIMINAL JUSTICE AND BEHAVIOR, Vol. 28 No. 1, February 2001 3-23 @ 2001 American Association for Correctional Psychology 3 from the SAGE Social Science Collections. All Rights Reserved.

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