ARTICLE REVIEW.

Article Review

Article Review

Despite a large literature on public views about crime, the racial aspects of crime, and the contact hypothesis, surprisingly little is known about how interracial friendships may influence Whites' fear of crime. At the identical time and possibly because no equivalent stereotype to that of “Blacks as criminals” exists, there has been little investigation of how such communicate may leverage Blacks' fear of crime. To address these study gaps, this study constructed on prior idea and research and used facts and figures from an ABC News and Washington Post sample to check vying hypotheses about the effect of ...