Revisiting Support for the Collection of Race and Crime Statistics: Results From Two Waves of Pennsylvania Statewide Lion Poll Data
Published online on November 21, 2025
Abstract
Crime & Delinquency, Ahead of Print.
Sixty years after Gilbert Geis’s denouncement of the use of racialized crime statistics in America, we revisit an underexplored topic of public sentiments toward the tabulation of arrest statistics by race. Using data from Pennsylvania in 2010 and 2023 (N...
Sixty years after Gilbert Geis’s denouncement of the use of racialized crime statistics in America, we revisit an underexplored topic of public sentiments toward the tabulation of arrest statistics by race. Using data from Pennsylvania in 2010 and 2023 (N...