Arresting Confidence: Mass Incarceration and Black–White Differences in Perceptions of Legal Authorities.
Objective: This article investigates changes in confidence in legal authorities associated with mass incarceration. Methods: Binary logistic regression models are used to analyze five waves of data from a national survey of U.S. adults collected between 1981 and 2011 (n = 8,548). Predicted probabili...
| Publicado en: | Social Science Quarterly (Wiley-Blackwell) Vol. 101; no. 5; pp. 1905 - 1920 |
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