The politics of respectability and black People’ felony attitudes
By Hakeem Jefferson, Stanford College
Present analysis largely ignores black assist for punitive insurance policies that focus on group members, whilst this assist challenges expectations of in-group favoritism and group solidarity. The present analysis fills this hole by exploiting a well-recognized idea: “politics of respectability.” Drawing on historic and qualitative accounts of this worldview that concentrate on the conduct of group members, I develop a social psychological framework for understanding how identity-based considerations inspire Black assist for punishment directed at members of their racial group. I’m additionally creating a brand new scale for respectability – the Respectability Politics Scale. Outcomes present that supporters of respectability really feel extra ashamed of the general public view of their racial group, endorse extra damaging racial stereotypes, and really feel comparatively much less near different black individuals. They’re additionally extra prone to assist a variety of punitive insurance policies that focus on group members, together with restrictive gown insurance policies, robust on crime insurance policies, and paternalistic welfare insurance policies.