The Rodney King incident and verdict revisited: Examining opinion-mobilizing effects using data from Southern California in 1991 and 1992

Christof Nägel and Amy Nivette

Journal of Criminal Justice, 2023, vol. 85, issue C

Abstract: We revisit the Rodney King incident and verdict to study their effect on confidence in local police using a design-based causal inference approach.

Keywords: Rodney King; Confidence in police; Quasi-experiment; Ethnicity; Political orientation; Historical criminology (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2023
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DOI: 10.1016/j.jcrimjus.2022.101989

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