SOCI356 Study Guide - Midterm Guide: Convict Lease, Sound Studies, Cruel Hand

• School: University of Delaware
• Department: Sociology
• Course: SOCI356
• Professor: Fleury- Steiner Benjamin

Document Summary

The police and racial and ethnic minorities: public attitudes about the police: Provides a good starting point for understanding relations between the police and the people of color. Race and ethnicity are consistently the most important factors in shaping the attitudes about the police. Surveys over the past 30 years have found that public attitudes about the police have been remarkably stable. Highly publicized controversial incidents have a short term effect on the public attitudes. Age is the second most important factor shaping attitudes toward the police. Usually young people, regardless of race, consistency have a more negative view of the police: perceptions of police officer conduct: Citizen"s attitudes are influenced by how they feel officers treat them in an encounter: policing racial and ethnic minority communities : African americans are more likely to be the victims of crime. African americans report crimes to the police at a slightly higher rate than white do.