Public Perceptions of Racialized Violence: A Test of the Racial Gradient Thesis

• In Event: Attitudes About Schools, Police, and Law Enforcement

Brief Overview

We rely on survey data on South Carolina Church shootings to explore racial differences in opinion toward a salient criminological event and test whether the religious setting of the event matters in the predictive accuracy of the theory.

Authors

• Isaac J. Unah, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill

• Taneisha Nicole Means, Vassar College