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Steven E. Barkan
Researcher at University of Maine
Publications - 55
Citations - 2443
Steven E. Barkan is an academic researcher from University of Maine. The author has contributed to research in topics: Social movement & General Social Survey. The author has an hindex of 20, co-authored 54 publications receiving 2287 citations. Previous affiliations of Steven E. Barkan include State University of New York System.
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The social movement society : contentious politics for a new century
TL;DR: This book discusses the structure and culture of Collective Protest in Germany since 1950, and the Institutionalization of Protest during Democratic Consolidation in Central Europe.
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Racial Prejudice and Support for the Death Penalty by Whites
Steven E. Barkan,Steven F. Cohn +1 more
TL;DR: This article found that white support for capital punishment is associated with prejudice against Blacks, and the implications of the results for legislative and judicial decisions regarding capital punishment are discussed in Section 5.1.
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Why Whites Favor Spending More Money to Fight Crime: The Role of Racial Prejudice
Steven E. Barkan,Steven F. Cohn +1 more
TL;DR: This paper found that whites who perceive African Americans as more violent are more likely to want more money spent on crime and that this relationship is limited to one segment of whites: the most racially prejudiced.
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Punitive Attitudes Toward Criminals: Racial Consensus or Racial Conflict?
TL;DR: This article found that the attitudes of whites toward criminals are based partly on racial prejudice, while those of blacks are associated with their fear of crime, and that their attitudes toward punitiveness reflect their disparate positions in the social and economic orders.
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Legal Control of the Southern Civil Rights Movement.
TL;DR: This paper identified two forms of white response-legalistic and violent-to black protest, and examined their impact on major protest campaigns in several Southern communities, concluding that in cities where white officials used legal means and avoided violence, civil rights forces were defeated.