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Devon Johnson
Researcher at George Mason University
Publications - 25
Citations - 1519
Devon Johnson is an academic researcher from George Mason University. The author has contributed to research in topics: Criminal justice & Procedural justice. The author has an hindex of 17, co-authored 25 publications receiving 1219 citations. Previous affiliations of Devon Johnson include Harvard University & University of California, Los Angeles.
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A TASTE FOR PUNISHMENT: Black and White Americans' Views on the Death Penalty and the War on Drugs
Lawrence D. Bobo,Devon Johnson +1 more
TL;DR: This article used a series of survey-based experiments and large, nationally representative samples of white and African American respondents to study the influence of racial prejudice on public opinion on criminal justice policy.
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Anger about crime and support for punitive criminal justice policies
TL;DR: This paper found that anger about crime is a significant predictor of punitive attitudes, after controlling for other factors such as racial prejudice, fear of crime, causal attributions for criminal behavior, and political ideology.
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Public Perceptions of the Legitimacy of the Law and Legal Authorities: Evidence from the Caribbean
TL;DR: In this paper, the authors examined the conceptualization and measurement of the perceived legitimacy of the law and legal authorities in Trinidad and Tobago, and found that some of the prominent conceptual and measurement models used in previous research are not empirically valid in the Trinidadian context.
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Racial prejudice, perceived injustice, and the Black-White gap in punitive attitudes
TL;DR: This article examined the sources of the racial gap in levels of punitiveness and found that perceived racial bias in the criminal justice system and racial prejudice explain the Black-White gap in punitive attitudes, together with racial prejudice.
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Evaluating the relative impact of positive and negative encounters with police: a randomized experiment
TL;DR: In this paper, the authors examined the influence of positive, negative, and neutral police behavior during traffic stops on citizen perceptions of police and found that positive interactions with police enhanced people's self-reported willingness to cooperate with police, obligation to obey police and the law, and trust and confidence in police, whereas observing negative interactions undermined these outcomes.