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“The black homicide rate is positively associated with fear of crime, while the non-black homicide rate is not… black homicides inspire more fear of crime than non-black homicides… fear of crime can account for a sizable portion of… [incarceration] racial disparity."

Angry and Afraid: Race, Public Opinion, and the Politics of Punishment in the States Angry and Afraid: Race, Public Opinion, and the Politics of Punishment in the States Table 4 presents a formal test by treating fear of crime as the dependent variable in a fixed effects model. The black homicide rate is positively associated with fear of crime, while the non-black homicide rate is not ... These results support the hypothesis that black homicides inspire more fear of crime than non-black homicides. Table 4 presents a formal test by treating fear of crime as the dependent variable in a fixed effects model. The black homicide rate is positively associated with fear of crime, while the non-black homicide rate is not ... These results support the hypothesis that black homicides inspire more fear of crime than non-black homicides.
Angry and Afraid: Race, Public Opinion, and the Politics of Punishment in the States
Ph.D. Dissertation in Sociology, Ohio State University
Duxbury, Scott W.
2020
http://rave.ohiolink.edu/etdc/view?acc_num=osu1586110727735148
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