Publication Type: Conference Paper/Unpublished Manuscript
Abstract: Conflicts between the police and minorities are commonplace in inner-city America. There is a profound lack of faith in law enforcement, as residents in disadvantaged communities believe that the police are slow to respond when they are victimized. Strained relations have weakened already fragile ties between the police and the minority community and as a result, the implementation and maintenance of crime prevention strategies is difficult. This study explores Anderson’s ‘code of the street’ as a possible explanation of retaliation homicide in disadvantaged communities in Washington, D.C. Residents in eight communities were surveyed on whether adaptive responses to police neglect include violence as a method of social control. Results reveal some important implications about police-community relations, the effects of police intervention on retaliation homicide, and the code of the street.

Publication Type: Conference Paper/Unpublished Manuscript
Review Method: Peer Reviewed
Abstract: For a long time the privileged basis for penal ethics has remained within the Kantian paradigm of just deserts. This paper dissents from that ‘hardhearted’ legacy and looks to theorise the significance of suffering and compassion to criminal justice. Through a reading of Levinas’ text ‘An Eye for an Eye’, we will consider that drama integral to the humanizing of justice.

Publication Type: Conference Paper/Unpublished Manuscript
Abstract: Numerous scholars have explored children’s responses to television, both from an educational and an entertainment perspective. Moreover, scholars from both research traditions have acknowledged the powerful role that children’s cognitive and moral development can play in their responses to such media content. This content analysis seeks to merge that body of theory with recent theoretical developments regarding the enjoyment of select types of dramatic narratives. One recent theory of the enjoyment of crime drama proposed that the degree to which the punishment depicted in a program mirrored a viewer’s own sense of fairness, the greater the enjoyment of the narrative. In addition, research has also shown that young viewers, because of their markedly different age-specific stages of moral development, prefer outcomes where aggressors are subject to expiatory punishment as opposed to equitable punishment. This content analysis examines the conflict-resolution themes in children’s television and measure the degree of retaliatory equity present in these programs. The results indicate that in children’s television in general, and especially in educational television, the resolution of these conflict-resolution sequences is rarely equitable. The implications of these findings for these programs’ educational and entertainment potential are discussed.

Publication Type: Conference Paper/Unpublished Manuscript
Review Method: Peer Reviewed
Abstract: This paper uses data from the 2000 National Election Survey to assess the effects of perceived racial discrimination on support for capital punishment while controlling for partisanship, religiosity and standard demographic variables.

Publication Type: Conference Paper/Unpublished Manuscript
Review Method: Peer Reviewed
Abstract: The paper describes the system of press instructions with which the Nazi government tried to mnaipulate the public In Germany between 1933 and 1939. Shortly after their seize of power the new political leaders began to edit such instructions. After looking to the organization of this process it is shown how the number of instructions grew over the years. In the core of the paper the types and forms of instructions are analysed. They ranged from strict suppressions to friendly requests. Additionally the paper includes an eye to the system of press instructions that was introduced later under the communist government in the German Democratic Republic. There have been obvious similarities.