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“When asked to what degree various racial groups are ‘prone to violence,’ whites rank people of color as more violence-prone than their own race…. Whites … significantly overestimate the proportion of crime committed by blacks and Latinos."

Race and Punishment: Racial Perceptions of Crime and Support for Punitive Policies

The Sentencing Project

Ghandnoosh, Nazgol

3 September 2014

https://www.sentencingproject.org/publications/race-and-punishment-racial-perceptions-of-crime-and-support-for-punitive-policies/

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