Ethnocultural Empathy and Racial Colorblindness Among White Police Recruits: Do Cross-Racial Friendships Matter?

IF 2.1 3区社会学 Q1 CRIMINOLOGY & PENOLOGY

Race and Justice Pub Date : 2021-06-04 DOI:10.1177/21533687211021051

B. A. Lee, H. Neville, Michael D Schlosser, M. Valgoi, S. Cha-Jua

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Abstract

We investigated how ethnocultural empathy and colorblind racial beliefs were associated through the racial composition of close friendship groups in police recruits. In a sample of White police recruits in a midwestern training academy (N = 192), mediation analyses revealed a significant association between ethnocultural empathy and colorblind racial beliefs through Black friendships. Specifically, findings from path analyses indicated an indirect effect between earlier empathy for Black, Indigenous, People of Color and later reduced denial of institutional racism. Although both ethnocultural empathy and racial beliefs were associated with Asian American and Latinx friends, these close cross-racial friendships were not significant mediators. Limitations, directions for future research, and implications for training and intervention in police samples are discussed.

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白人警察新兵的民族文化同理心和种族色盲:跨种族友谊重要吗?

我们调查了种族文化同理心和色盲种族信仰如何通过警察新兵中亲密友谊群体的种族构成联系在一起。在中西部一所培训学院招募的白人警察样本中（N=192），调解分析显示，通过黑人友谊，种族文化同理心与色盲种族信仰之间存在显著联系。具体而言，路径分析的结果表明，早期对黑人、原住民和有色人种的同情与后来对制度性种族主义的否认减少之间存在间接影响。尽管种族文化同理心和种族信仰都与亚裔美国人和拉丁裔朋友有关，但这些亲密的跨种族友谊并不是重要的中介。讨论了警察样本的局限性、未来研究的方向以及对培训和干预的影响。

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期刊介绍： Race and Justice: An International Journal serves as a quarterly forum for the best scholarship on race, ethnicity, and justice. Of particular interest to the journal are policy-oriented papers that examine how race/ethnicity intersects with justice system outcomes across the globe. The journal is also open to research that aims to test or expand theoretical perspectives exploring the intersection of race/ethnicity, class, gender, and justice. The journal is open to scholarship from all disciplinary origins and methodological approaches (qualitative and/or quantitative).Topics of interest to Race and Justice include, but are not limited to, research that focuses on: Legislative enactments, Policing Race and Justice, Courts, Sentencing, Corrections (community-based, institutional, reentry concerns), Juvenile Justice, Drugs, Death penalty, Public opinion research, Hate crime, Colonialism, Victimology, Indigenous justice systems.