In February 2012, George Zimmerman, a Hispanic man, shot and killed Trayvon Martin, an African-American teen, after encountering Martin walking in a hoodie in the rain in his neighborhood. A media frenzy followed, focusing on the racial differences between the two and the possible injustice of the incident. A key legal and public question was whether Zimmerman was acting in self-defense or based on racial stereotypes. Based in the fear of crime and racial socialization literature, this study examines the impacts of racial socialization, fear of crime, and subcultural diversity on university students’ expected reactions to an incident very similar to the Zimmerman–Martin encounter. We find that the race of the person encountered is not a significant predictor of how these university students expected to respond. In addition, while fear of crime and subcultural diversity also fail to reach significance, promotion of mistrust of other races is related in this sample to willingness to pull a gun and shoot one. Given the policy and public significance of behavioral reactions to crime, we call for much more research before making conclusions about the impact of racial differences and mistrust on how people might react in potentially threatening situations.

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乔治·齐默尔曼的观点：促进不信任、亚文化多样性和对犯罪的恐惧对预期个人反应的影响

2012 年 2 月，西班牙裔男子乔治·齐默尔曼（George Zimmerman）在他附近遇到穿着连帽衫在雨中行走的非裔美国青少年特雷冯·马丁（Trayvon Martin）后，开枪打死了他。随之而来的是媒体狂潮，聚焦于两人之间的种族差异以及事件可能造成的不公正。一个关键的法律和公共问题是，齐默尔曼的行为是出于自卫还是基于种族刻板印象。本研究基于对犯罪的恐惧和种族社会化文献，考察了种族社会化、犯罪恐惧和亚文化多样性对大学生对与齐默尔曼 - 马丁遭遇非常相似的事件的预期反应的影响。我们发现，遇到的人的种族并不是这些大学生期望如何回应的重要预测因素。此外，虽然对犯罪和亚文化多样性的恐惧也没有达到显着意义，但在本样本中，促进对其他种族的不信任与愿意拔枪开枪有关。鉴于对犯罪的行为反应的政策和公共意义，我们呼吁在得出关于种族差异和不信任对人们在潜在威胁情况下可能如何反应的影响的结论之前进行更多的研究。