APS
30th APS Annual Convention · 2018
How Race and Racial Identification Influence Responses to Police Violence Towards Black Females
- Savannah Wagner Belk
Student - Marjorie Castro Ramos
student - Sean Dawson
University of North Carolina Wilmington - Len Lecci
The University of North Carolina at Wilmington - James Johnson
The University of the South Pacific
Abstract
Examined participant race and racial identification and legal responding in an alleged sexual assault of a Black female by a White officer. Highly racially identified Blacks reported greater victim compensation and officer punitive responding than Whites. However, low racially identified Blacks reported less victim compensation and punitive responding than Whites.
Forensic/Criminal Justice
