Is it Black and White? Testing racial framing effects of public reactions to newspaper vignettes of fatal officer-involved shootings

IF 1.8 2区社会学 Q2 CRIMINOLOGY & PENOLOGY

Journal of Experimental Criminology Pub Date : 2023-11-10 DOI:10.1007/s11292-023-09588-4

John C. Navarro, Michael A. Hansen

{"title":"Is it Black and White? Testing racial framing effects of public reactions to newspaper vignettes of fatal officer-involved shootings","authors":"John C. Navarro, Michael A. Hansen","doi":"10.1007/s11292-023-09588-4","DOIUrl":null,"url":null,"abstract":"<h3 data-test=\"abstract-sub-heading\">Objectives</h3><p>To investigate how race shapes public perceptions of a fatal officer-involved shooting of an armed male citizen depicted in a scenario without racial identifiers, intraracial, and interracial.</p><h3 data-test=\"abstract-sub-heading\">Methods</h3><p>We distributed an online survey whereby respondents indicated justification, measured by four questions about the fatal officer-involved shooting, after being randomly assigned to three conditions that differed by the racial composition of the officer and armed male citizen. The control condition omitted racial identifiers, and two conditions depicted an interracial and intraracial deadly encounter between a White officer and a White or Black citizen.</p><h3 data-test=\"abstract-sub-heading\">Results</h3><p>White and non-White respondents similarly perceived the intraracial shooting, but White respondents perceived the control condition and the interracial shooting as more justified than non-White respondents.</p><h3 data-test=\"abstract-sub-heading\">Conclusions</h3><p>An identical news article of a fatal officer-involved shooting can be perceived differently when altering the race of the officer and armed male citizen.</p>","PeriodicalId":47684,"journal":{"name":"Journal of Experimental Criminology","volume":"79 3","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":1.8000,"publicationDate":"2023-11-10","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":"0","resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":null,"PeriodicalName":"Journal of Experimental Criminology","FirstCategoryId":"90","ListUrlMain":"https://doi.org/10.1007/s11292-023-09588-4","RegionNum":2,"RegionCategory":"社会学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":null,"EPubDate":"","PubModel":"","JCR":"Q2","JCRName":"CRIMINOLOGY & PENOLOGY","Score":null,"Total":0}

引用次数: 0

Abstract

Objectives

To investigate how race shapes public perceptions of a fatal officer-involved shooting of an armed male citizen depicted in a scenario without racial identifiers, intraracial, and interracial.

Methods

We distributed an online survey whereby respondents indicated justification, measured by four questions about the fatal officer-involved shooting, after being randomly assigned to three conditions that differed by the racial composition of the officer and armed male citizen. The control condition omitted racial identifiers, and two conditions depicted an interracial and intraracial deadly encounter between a White officer and a White or Black citizen.

Results

White and non-White respondents similarly perceived the intraracial shooting, but White respondents perceived the control condition and the interracial shooting as more justified than non-White respondents.

Conclusions

An identical news article of a fatal officer-involved shooting can be perceived differently when altering the race of the officer and armed male citizen.

Abstract Image

查看原文本刊更多论文

是黑与白吗?测试公众对报纸上涉及警察的致命枪击事件的反应的种族框架效应

目的研究在没有种族标识、种族内和种族间的情况下，种族如何影响公众对警察枪杀一名持枪男性公民的看法。方法我们发布了一份在线调查，根据警察和持枪男性公民的种族组成，被随机分配到三种不同的情况下，受访者通过关于警察致命枪击的四个问题来表明正当理由。对照条件省略了种族标识，两个条件描述了白人警察与白人或黑人公民之间的种族间和种族内的致命遭遇。结果白人和非白人被调查者对种族内枪击事件的认知相似，但白人被调查者对控制条件和种族间枪击事件的认知比非白人被调查者更合理。结论当改变警察和持枪男性公民的种族时，同一篇关于警察致命枪击事件的新闻报道会产生不同的感知。

本文章由计算机程序翻译，如有差异，请以英文原文为准。

求助全文

约1分钟内获得全文求助全文

来源期刊

Journal of Experimental Criminology CRIMINOLOGY & PENOLOGY-

CiteScore

6.20

自引率

6.70%

发文量

期刊介绍： The Journal of Experimental Criminology focuses on high quality experimental and quasi-experimental research in the advancement of criminological theory and/or the development of evidence based crime and justice policy. The journal is also committed to the advancement of the science of systematic reviews and experimental methods in criminology and criminal justice. The journal seeks empirical papers on experimental and quasi-experimental studies, systematic reviews on substantive criminological and criminal justice issues, and methodological papers on experimentation and systematic review. The journal encourages submissions from scholars in the broad array of scientific disciplines that are concerned with criminology as well as crime and justice problems.