OBJECTIVE Many highly publicized police use-of-force encounters have recently occurred in the United States. This project primarily explored whether officer, juror, or victim race affects verdicts in trials involving police use of force. HYPOTHESES Because of recent conflicting research surrounding race and juror decision-making, we conducted an exploratory analysis on the interactive effects of juror, victim, and defendant race. We hypothesized that mock jurors with favorable perceptions of police legitimacy would be less likely to convict an officer charged with manslaughter. METHOD Four hundred sixteen (243 women, 170 men, three another gender; 263 White, 50 Asian, 44 Black, 41 Latine, four Native American, 14 another race/ethnicity) jury-eligible community members read a trial transcript involving a police officer charged with manslaughter, in which we manipulated victim and defendant race (Black, White), then rendered a verdict and answered a questionnaire. RESULTS We found significant effects of police legitimacy and defendant race on verdicts. The main effect was qualified by an interaction between juror race/ethnicity and defendant race. Simple-slope analyses revealed no effect of defendant race for White mock jurors. In comparison, Black, indigenous, and people of color (BIPOC) mock jurors were significantly more likely to convict a White than a Black defendant. We also observed significant effects of police legitimacy, defendant race, and victim race on perceptions of the officer's use of force. CONCLUSIONS Our analyses revealed that mock jurors were significantly more punitive when the defendant was White compared with Black, and they perceived the officer's use of force as significantly more excessive when the officer was White or the victim was Black. These effects appear to be driven primarily by BIPOC jurors. Mock jurors with more favorable perceptions of police legitimacy were significantly less likely to convict the officer and viewed his use of force as less excessive. (PsycInfo Database Record (c) 2023 APA, all rights reserved).

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种族对陪审员对致命警察使用武力的看法的影响。

目标 最近在美国发生了许多广为人知的警察使用武力遭遇战。该项目主要探讨警官、陪审员或受害人种族是否会影响涉及警察使用武力的审判中的判决。假设 由于最近围绕种族和陪审员决策的研究相互矛盾，我们对陪审员、受害人和被告种族的互动影响进行了探索性分析。我们假设，对警察合法性有正面看法的模拟陪审员不太可能将被控过失杀人罪的警官定罪。方法 416 名（243 名女性，170 名男性，3 名其他性别；263 名白人，50 名亚洲人，44 名黑人，41 名拉丁裔，4 名美洲原住民，14 名其他种族/族裔）符合陪审团资格的社区成员阅读了一份涉及警官的审判记录被控过失杀人罪，我们在其中操纵了受害者和被告的种族（黑人、白人），然后做出判决并回答了问卷。结果 我们发现警察合法性和被告种族对判决有显着影响。主要影响由陪审员种族/民族和被告种族之间的相互作用来限定。简单斜率分析显示被告种族对白人模拟陪审员没有影响。相比之下，黑人、土著和有色人种 (BIPOC) 的模拟陪审员更有可能给白人被告定罪，而不是给黑人被告定罪。我们还观察到警察合法性、被告人种族和受害人种族对警察使用武力的看法的显着影响。结论 我们的分析表明，与黑人相比，当被告是白人时，模拟陪审员的惩罚性明显更强，他们认为警官 当警官是白人或受害者是黑人时，使用武力的行为明显更加过度。这些影响似乎主要是由 BIPOC 陪审员驱动的。对警察的合法性有更有利看法的模拟陪审员明显不太可能给这名警官定罪，并且认为他使用武力的行为不那么过分。（PsycInfo 数据库记录 (c) 2023 APA，保留所有权利）。