Forty-eight percent of Americans blame the mental health system “a great deal” for mass shootings in the United States, unchanged from January 2011. At the same time, fewer blame easy access to guns now (40%) than two years ago (46%), making the mental health system the perceived top cause of […] Read more »
Rape: the Darkest Dark Figure of Crime
… All official crime stats are missing the so-called “dark figure” of unreported crime. “You can think of rape and sexual assault as the darkest of the dark figure of crime,” said Candace Kruttschnitt, a sociologist at the University of Toronto who is co-chairing a panel of researchers who are […] Read more »
Parents’ School Safety Fears Haven’t Receded Since Newtown
As Newtown, Conn., students begin classes for the new school year, more than eight months after last December’s massacre of 26 teachers and children there, U.S. parents of school-aged children appear to be no more at ease than they were immediately after the incident. Thirty-three percent of K-12 parents say […] Read more »
America’s race relations take hit after Zimmerman verdict
In the wake of the George Zimmerman case, U.S. views of race relations have taken a hit, and one-third of Americans say his acquittal in the death of Trayvon Martin has shaken their confidence in the legal system, according to the latest NBC News/Wall Street Journal poll. The survey found […] Read more »
Zimmerman verdict poll: Stark reaction by race
The not-guilty verdict in the trial of George Zimmerman has produced dramatically different reactions among blacks and whites, with African Americans overwhelmingly disapproving of the jury’s decision and a bare majority of whites saying they approve of the outcome, according to a new Washington Post-ABC News poll. … The new […] Read more »
The Uncanny Similarity Between the Zimmerman and 2012 Exit Polls
The first wave of polls on the Zimmerman verdict are in and the results look familiar. Pew Research asked adults whether they were “satisfied” or “dissatisfied” with the Zimmerman verdict and the results were strikingly similar to the last presidential election. Compare today’s poll on the Zimmerman verdict with Pew’s […] Read more »