[lbo-talk] Abolition of prisons (Was: Angela...)

Politicus E. epoliticus at gmail.com
Sat Apr 4 13:55:28 PDT 2009


Any thoughts on the survey methodology section?

By the way, what is relevant here in order to answer this question is a cross-tabulation by race and income, not the tables that you provided.


> No kidding. E.g., the differences by race in answering the question of
> whether courts are too easy or too harsh on criminals are surprisingly
> small:
>
> <http://www.albany.edu/sourcebook/pdf/t247.pdf>.
>
> E.g., in 2002, "not harshly enough" got 69% white approval, and 60% black.
> Also, little difference on income.
>
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