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Klein, Ronald J.; And Others – Journal of Offender Counseling, Services & Rehabilitation, 1982
Used the Continuum of Criminal Offenses to examine how the "law-abiding" community, representative of middle-class values, would rate the seriousness of selected criminal offenses and how they would then handle offenders. Results showed crimes rated as being more serious were dealt with more sternly in sentencing. (Author/JAC)
Descriptors: Attitude Measures, Classification, College Students, Community Attitudes
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Feagin, Joe R. – Journal of Black Studies, 1992
Examines barriers faced by African-American students at predominantly white colleges, suggests a typology of discrimination, and presents a tentative theory of cumulative discrimination. Data from interviews with 24 college students, administrators, and faculty members from a sample of 180 middle-class urban African Americans indicate that the…
Descriptors: Administrators, Black Education, Black Students, Classification