Gentrification

[Wojtek Sokolowski]

At 12:44 PM 8/21/99 -0400, Doug Henwood wrote:
>Max B. Sawicky wrote:
>
>>Minorities overwhelmingly favor capital
>punishment.
>
>Well, not exactly, as these excerpted tables from the Sourcebook of 
>Criminal Justice Statistics show. I suspect the difference between 
>the responses on the first and second can be attributed to the phrase 
>"for persons convicted of murder." The first is more an abstract 
>philosophical question. But even on the second, "minorities" are much 
>less in favor of the DP than are whites.
>
>Doug
>
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><http://www.albany.edu/sourcebook/1995/tost_2.html#2_w>
>
>Table 2.58
>Do you believe in capital punishment, that is, the death penalty, or 
>are you opposed to it?
>
>                believe  oppposed not sure/refused
>National          71%       21%        8%
>
>Sex
>Male              75        20         5
>Female            66        23        11
>
>Race, ethnicity
>White             77        15         8
>Black             39        51        10
>Hispanic          65        32         3
>
>Table 2.58
>Question: Are you in favor of the death penalty for persons convicted 
>of murder?
>
>                  Yes       No     Don't know/
>                                    refused
> 
>National        73.4%     19.9%      6.7%
>
>Sex
>Male            81.7      13.7       4.6
>Female          65.6      25.7       8.7
>
>Race, ethnicity
>White           77.2      16.5       6.3
>Black           58.6      32.4       9.0
>Hispanic        61.0      33.8       5.2
>
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>

While minorities are somewhat less likely than whites to support DP, the
fact of the matter is that the abosulte majorities in all ethnic goups
support it.  Which, to my recollection, was the point Max S. tried to make.

wojtek