Finkeldey Jessica G, Demuth Stephen
Department of Sociocultural and Justice Sciences, State University of New York at Fredonia, Fredonia, NY, USA.
Department of Sociology, Bowling Green State University, Bowling Green, OH, USA.
Race Justice. 2021 Oct;11(4):567-591. doi: 10.1177/2153368719826269. Epub 2019 Feb 4.
Research has long-documented racial/ethnic disparities in criminal justice outcomes. However, despite race/ethnicity being a multidimensional social construct, prior research largely relies on self-identification measures, thereby disregarding research on skin tone stratification within-racial/ethnic groups. The current study extends beyond this by examining the relationship between race/ethnicity and arrest employing both self-identified race/ethnicity and perceived skin color. Using data from the National Longitudinal Study of Adolescent to Adult Health, we explore the main and intersecting effects of self-identified race/ethnicity and perceived skin color on experiencing an arrest in adulthood between- and within-self-identified Whites, Blacks, Latinos, Native Americans, and Asians. We use structural disadvantage as a framework for exploring how social structural factors as well as antisocial behavior mediate the relationship between race/ethnicity/color and arrest. Results suggest that focusing on the racial/ethnic disparities alone masks differences in arrest by color and that the effect of color varies by race/ethnicity. Results also suggest that measures indicative of disadvantage, but not offending, partially explain these associations.
长期以来，研究记录了刑事司法结果中的种族/族裔差异。然而，尽管种族/族裔是一个多维度的社会结构，但先前的研究很大程度上依赖于自我认同的衡量标准，从而忽视了种族/族裔群体内部肤色分层的研究。当前的研究通过考察自我认同的种族/族裔和感知到的肤色与逮捕之间的关系，扩展了这一研究范围。利用青少年到成人健康全国纵向研究的数据，我们探讨了自我认同的种族/族裔和感知到的肤色对成年后自我认同的白人、黑人、拉丁裔、美洲原住民和亚洲人之间以及内部经历逮捕的主要和交叉影响。我们使用结构劣势作为框架，来探索社会结构因素以及反社会行为如何调节种族/族裔/肤色与逮捕之间的关系。结果表明，仅关注种族/族裔差异掩盖了肤色在逮捕方面的差异，而且肤色的影响因种族/族裔而异。结果还表明，表明劣势但不表明犯罪的指标部分解释了这些关联。
