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Novak, Kenneth J.; Chamlin, Mitchell B. – Crime & Delinquency, 2012
Racial bias in traffic enforcement has become a popular line of inquiry, but examinations into explanations for the disparity have been scant. The current research integrates theoretical insights from the racial threat hypothesis with inferences drawn from the empirical analyses of the factors that stimulate officer suspicion. The most intriguing…
Descriptors: Race, Cues, Social Control, Racial Composition
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Heise, David R.; Lerner, Steven J. – Social Forces, 2006
This research tests the proposition that national leaders generate international interactions in the process of maintaining sentiments about nations and international actions. The analysis deals with 1,934 international incidents in which one of 25 Middle Eastern nations responded twice within four weeks to an instigation by another of the 25…
Descriptors: Critical Incidents Method, International Relations, Social Science Research, Social Behavior