scholarly journals The American Racial Divide in Fear of the Police

2021 ◽  
Author(s):  
Justin Pickett ◽  
Amanda Graham ◽  
Francis T. Cullen
Keyword(s):  
The Other ◽  
Serious Crime ◽  
Blacks And Whites ◽  
Racial Divide ◽  
Altruistic Fear

We measured personal and altruistic fear of the police in a nationwide sample of Americans (N = 1,150), which included comparable numbers of Blacks (N = 517) and Whites (N = 492). Whites felt safe, but Blacks feared the police even more than crime, being afraid both for themselves and for others they cared about. The racial divide in fear was mediated by experiences with police mistreatment. In turn, fear mediated the effects of race and past mistreatment on support for defunding the police and intentions to have “the talk” with family youths about the need to distrust and avoid officers. About half of Blacks said they would rather be the victim of a serious crime than be questioned or searched by the police. The results show that when it comes to the police, Blacks and Whites live in different emotional worlds, one of fear and the other of felt safety.

What an [En]tangled Web We Weave: Emotions, Motivation, and Rethinking Us and the “Other”

Hypatia ◽  
2017 ◽  
Vol 32 (2) ◽  
pp. 439-451 ◽  
Author(s):  
Myisha Cherry
Keyword(s):  
United States ◽  
The United States ◽  
Moral Emotions ◽  
The Other ◽  
Racial Divide

In Entangled Empathy, Lori Gruen offers an alternative ethic for our relationships with animals. In this article, I examine Gruen's account of entangled empathy by first focusing on entangled empathy's relation to the moral emotions of sympathy, compassion, and other emotions. I then challenge Gruen's account of how entangled empathy moves us to attend to others. Lastly, and without intending to place humans at the center of the conversation, I reflect on the ways entangled empathy can help us solve some human problems—particularly the racial divide in the United States.

“A Particularly Serious Crime”

2021 ◽  
pp. 158-184
Author(s):  
Elliott Young
Keyword(s):  
United States ◽  
Home Country ◽  
The United States ◽  
The Other ◽  
President Obama ◽  
Felony Conviction ◽  
Low Level ◽  
Serious Crime ◽  
The One ◽  
Radical Shift

Machado was just five years old in 1990 when she was brought to the United States by her mother, who was desperate to escape the civil war raging in their home country of El Salvador; she wanted a better life for her two young daughters. In 2015, she was picked up in a traffic stop in Arkansas which triggered her deportation based on a felony conviction from a decade earlier. Machado’s story reveals a radical shift that had been happening since the mid-1990s. Unprecedented numbers of immigrants were being caught in a system that penalized people with mandatory deportations for relatively low-level crimes. Machado does not fit easily into the Manichean distinction made by President Obama in 2014 between “felons” on the one hand and “families” on the other. Machado, like so many others, is both.

REPARATIONS: Justice and Greed in Black and White

2004 ◽  
Vol 1 (1) ◽  
pp. 47-91 ◽  
Author(s):  
Michael C. Dawson ◽  
Rovana Popoff
Keyword(s):  
World War Ii ◽  
Jim Crow ◽  
Multivariate Analyses ◽  
Japanese Americans ◽  
World War ◽  
Black And White ◽  
Irreparable Harm ◽  
Blacks And Whites ◽  
The Republic ◽  
Racial Divide

Proponents and opponents of reparations for Blacks vociferously disagree. Conservative opponents argue that reparations for Black slavery are a disastrous idea and that proponents are motivated by either greed or the desire to do harm to the republic. Liberal and left opponents of reparations argue that the advocacy on this issue will lead to great racial divisions and do potentially irreparable harm to progressive movements. Supporters of reparations argue that it is a case of simple justice. That during the colonial, slavery, and Jim Crow eras Blacks were systematically oppressed and exploited with the active support of the state. They also argue that both domestic and international precedents strengthen the case for Black reparations. This paper shows that there is a tremendous divide between Blacks and Whites on questions of both an apology to Blacks as well as monetary reparations. The racial divide extends to support for the reparations to Japanese-Americans who were victims of official incarceration during World War II. Finally, multivariate analyses demonstrates that for both Blacks and Whites, racialized views of politics are best predictors of support for or opposition to reparations.

scholarly journals Perspektif Psikoviktimologi dalam Pendampingan Dan Perlindungan Anak Korban Kekerasan Seksual

EGALITA ◽  
2017 ◽  
Vol 10 (2) ◽  
Author(s):  
Reni Kusumowardhani
Keyword(s):  
United States ◽  
Sexual Violence ◽  
Supreme Court ◽  
The Other ◽  
Serious Crime ◽  
The Supreme Court

<p>Sexual violence to child is a serious crime, but on the other side, the case of sexual violence to child often difficult to proved. The Supreme Court of United States have perceived that sexual violence to child is one of the most difficult crime to detected and claimed because most of the case have not eyewitness except the victim. (Pennsylvania v. Ritchie, 480 U.S. 39, 60. 1987). In many cases, witness of eyewitness is very important matter. It  become very ironic because children in one side as victim because the weakness of them, but strength of children as eyewitness is the best expectation for them to get law protection.</p><p> </p><p>Kekerasan seksual terhadap anak merupakan kejahatan serius, namun di sisi lain kasus kekerasan seksual terhadap anak kerap kali sulit dibuktikan. Mahkamah Agung AS telah mengamati bahwa kekerasan seksual terhadap anak adalah salah satu kejahatan yang paling sulit untuk dideteksi dan dituntut karena kebanyakan tidak ada saksi kecuali korban (Pennsylvania v.  Ritchie,  480  U.S.  39,  60.  1987). Dalam  banyak  kasus  kesaksian  saksi merupakan hal yang sangat penting. Ini menjadi sangat ironis karena anak di satu sisi sebagai korban karena kelemahan mereka, namun kekuatan anak sebagai saksi  merupakan harapan terbaik mereka untuk mendapatkan  perlindungan hukum.</p>

Part VI Providing and Obtaining Assistance, A Providing Assistance, 20 Anti-terrorism Legislation

2017 ◽  
Author(s):  
Peddie Jonathan
Keyword(s):  
National Security ◽  
The Other ◽  
Intelligence Community ◽  
Counter Terrorism ◽  
Serious Crime ◽  
Proceeds Of Crime ◽  
The One ◽  
Terrorist Acts ◽  
Criminal Conduct

The previous two chapters looked at the notion that the management of proceeds of crime and counter-terrorism have ceased to be independent legislative endeavours for governments, and increasingly form an inter-dependent set of measures together with other, international initiatives including the various international sanctions regimes. This chapter, and the ones that follow, look at the identification of illegal conduct, restraint, recovery of proceeds and close scrutiny and prosecution of perpetrators, and intelligence-led management of the threat to the UK’s economic and national security interests. On the one hand, terrorism amounts to criminal conduct to which the provisions of POCA 2002 apply as they do to the proceeds of any criminality, and there is clear interplay between the relevant regimes. Yet, on the other hand, the legislation considered in this chapter creates specific powers concerning those involved in terrorist acts, those who promote and facilitate it and the methods through which such individuals may be starved of financial means. The chapter looks at the Terrorism Act 2000; the Anti-Terrorism, Crime and Security Act 2001; and the Terrorism Asset Freezing etc Act 2010. It then considers the role of the wider UK enforcement and intelligence community. Finally, it takes a look at the Serious Crime Act 2007.

Racism and “Place” in American Catholic Experience

2019 ◽  
Vol 3 (1-2) ◽  
pp. 82-102
Author(s):  
Linh Hoang
Keyword(s):  
Cultural Identity ◽  
Lived Experience ◽  
Asian American ◽  
The United States ◽  
The Other ◽  
Human Beings ◽  
Blacks And Whites ◽  
American Catholic ◽  
Struggle For Recognition ◽  
The Church

Racism occurs in place. It is any place where human beings dwell such as a certain location, a house, or even a church. Racism is a lived experience that exposes the tragedy of hate and fear of the other. It pushes people into uncomfortable places. Asian Americans have built enclaves across the United States in order to maintain their cultural identity and help in resettlement. These ethnic enclaves have become, however, a way to silence and sideline Asians from the racial debates that has traditionally pitted blacks and whites for centuries. Asians have "assimilated" well into the dominant white culture but have not been completely accepted instead they continue to experience discrimination and prejudices. Even in the Church, Asian American Catholics struggle for recognition of their contribution and participation. The process of reconciliation that Robert J. Schreiter has elaborated provides an opportunity for Asian American Catholics to engage in the racial conversation while improving the Church's place in healing racism.   

WORLDS APART: Blacks and Whites React to Hurricane Katrina

2006 ◽  
Vol 3 (1) ◽  
pp. 97-113 ◽  
Author(s):  
Leonie Huddy ◽  
Stanley Feldman
Keyword(s):  
Hurricane Katrina ◽  
New Orleans ◽  
Racial Differences ◽  
Past Research ◽  
Blacks And Whites ◽  
Using Data ◽  
Racial Divide ◽  
The City ◽  
Public Opinion Polls ◽  
Opinion Polls

Hurricane Katrina was a natural disaster that destroyed New Orleans, a major U.S. city, and it is reasonable to expect all Americans to react with sympathy and support for the disaster's victims and efforts to restore the city. From another vantage point, however, Hurricane Katrina can be seen more narrowly, as a disaster that disproportionately afflicted the poor Black inhabitants of New Orleans. Past research demonstrates a large racial divide in the support of issues with clear racial overtones, and we examine the possibility of a racial divide in reactions to Katrina using data from a national telephone survey of White and Black Americans. We find large racial differences in sympathy for the hurricane's victims, the adequacy of the federal government's response, and support for proposed solutions to mend hurricane-ravaged New Orleans, verifying the racial nature of the disaster. Blacks viewed the hurricane victims more positively than did Whites, drew a sharper distinction between and felt more sympathy for those stranded than for those who evacuated New Orleans, and were substantially more supportive of government efforts to improve the situation of hurricane victims and rebuild New Orleans. This racial gap is as large as any observed in recent polls; persists even after controlling for education, income, and other possible racial differences; and documents more fully differences that were hinted at in public opinion polls reported at the time of the disaster. We spell out the implications of this divide for racial divisions within U.S. politics more generally.

Perish or Prosper: The Law and Convict Transportation in the British Empire, 1700–1850

2003 ◽  
Vol 21 (3) ◽  
pp. 527-584 ◽  
Author(s):  
Bruce Kercher
Keyword(s):  
Eighteenth Century ◽  
North America ◽  
British Empire ◽  
The Other ◽  
Primary Method ◽  
Serious Crime ◽  
The World ◽  
Convict Transportation ◽  
The Caribbean ◽  
Fundamental Law

For over 150 years from the early eighteenth century, convict transportation was a primary method of punishing serious crime in Britain and Ireland. Convicts were first sent to the colonies in North America and the Caribbean and then to three newly established Australian colonies on the other side of the world. Conditions were very different between the two locations, yet the fundamental law of transportation remained the same for decades after the process began in Australia.

“Everybody Wants to Be a Merchant”

2019 ◽  
pp. 329-368
Author(s):  
Cécile Vidal
Keyword(s):  
New Orleans ◽  
Informal Economy ◽  
The Other ◽  
European Descent ◽  
Traditional Conception ◽  
Racial Boundaries ◽  
Corporate Body ◽  
And Gender ◽  
Racial Divide ◽  
The One

This chapter claims that commerce contributed more than any other activity to alleviating the racial divide in French New Orleans. On the one hand, participation in the market was to a large extent determined by status, race, class, and gender; on the other, the surge in commercial exchanges provided a set of circumstances in which social and racial boundaries were more easily negotiated. Yet whites were the ones who benefited the most from this situation: by the end of the French period a powerful corporate body of self-identified merchants and traders of European descent had emerged, and they were able to challenge the traditional conception of commerce as an infamous occupation. In contrast, whereas a few slaves managed to purchase their freedom thanks to their participation in an informal economy, they were unable to weaken the long-lasting association whites made between slavery and dishonor.

Latin Jazz

2020 ◽  
Author(s):  
Christopher Washburne
Keyword(s):  
Latin American ◽  
Race And Ethnicity ◽  
Ethnographic Study ◽  
The Other ◽  
The Status ◽  
Jazz History ◽  
History Of ◽  
Global Nature ◽  
Latin Jazz ◽  
Racial Divide

Latin Jazz: The Other Jazz is an issue-oriented historical and ethnographic study that focuses on key moments in the history of the music in order to unpack the cultural forces that have shaped its development. The broad historical scope of this study, which traces the dynamic interplay of Caribbean and Latin American musical influence from eighteenth- and nineteenth-century colonial New Orleans through to the present global stage, provides an in-depth contextual foundation for exploring how musicians work with and negotiate through the politics of nation, place, race, and ethnicity in the ethnographic present. Latin jazz is explored both as a specific subgenre of jazz and through the processes involved in its constructed “otherness.” Latin Jazz: The Other Jazz provides a revisionist perspective on jazz history by embracing and celebrating jazz’s rich global nature and heralding the significant and undeniable Caribbean and Latin American contributions to this beautiful expressive form. This study demonstrates how jazz expression reverberates entangled histories that encompass a tapestry of racial distinctions and blurred lines between geographical divides. This book acknowledges, pays tribute to, and celebrates the diversity of culture, experience, and perspectives that are foundational to jazz. Thus, the music’s legacy is shown to transcend far beyond stylistic distinction, national borders, and the imposition of the black/white racial divide that has only served to maintain the status quo and silence and erase the foundational contributions of innovators from the Caribbean and Latin America.

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