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Do Voters Have Different Investment Preferences than Nonvoters? Do Voters Have Different Investment Preferences than Nonvoters?
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Will a Legislator Who Supports Community Investment Suffer Backlash at the Ballot Box? Will a Legislator Who Supports Community Investment Suffer Backlash at the Ballot Box?
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5 The Political Boundaries of Public Support for Safety Beyond Punishment
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Published:June 2023
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This chapter analyzes public opinion data from a national survey of Black and White Americans. It examines respondents’ allocations into a hypothetical crime prevention budget and tests whether people who turn out to vote have different investment preferences than nonvoters. The analysis reveals that Republican and independent voters prefer to fund criminal justice institutions, whereas Democratic voters and nonvoters, independent nonvoters, and Republican nonvoters prefer to fund community institutions. Next, the chapter examines whether respondents said that they would become more or less likely to vote for a legislator if the legislator supported crime prevention investment into criminal justice institutions or community institutions. Most respondents said that a politician’s investment choices would not affect their vote one way or the other. The chapter concludes by arguing that direct community investment for the purpose of crime prevention does not fall outside Americans’ “zone of acquiescence.” Politicians are unlikely to lose votes if they support community investment. Americans do not hold single-minded “tough on crime” electoral preferences.
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