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    II. The Legal and Generational Status of Hispanic Children

    The Growth of Hispanic Children The nation’s 16 million Hispanic children will likely continue to be one of our fastest- growing child populations. The U.S. Census Bureau projects that the number of Hispanic children will rise to 24 million by 2025 (Census Bureau, 2008). The share of children who are of Latino origin is projected […]

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    The Torture Debate: A Closer Look

    “The Religious Dimensions of the Torture Debate,” a web graphic published April 29 by the Pew Research Center’s Forum on Religion & Public Life, has generated a great deal of attention and interest. It shows that currently, more than six-in-ten white evangelical Protestants (62%) say that the use of torture against suspected terrorists in order […]

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    Section 3: Business, Wall Street and Labor

    Over the past few years, the country has suffered through a devastating decline in the housing market, a stock market crash, and spiraling unemployment. Yet the public’s fundamental attitudes about business have changed very little. As in past values surveys, most Americans link the country’s strength to the success of business, yet consistent majorities also […]

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    II. Confidence in the Criminal Justice System

    Six-in-10 (61%) Hispanics report a great deal or a fair amount of confidence that police officers in their community will do a good job of enforcing the law, and 57% are confident that police will do a good job of dealing with gangs. However, this still leaves a notable minority who hold a negative opinion […]

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    Court of Public Opinion Sides with Women on Empathy

    Obama says empathy is one of the qualities he’ll be looking for in a new Supreme Court justice. Meantime, his White House has floated a list of possible nominees that’s stacked heavily with women. Coincidence?

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    V. Racial and Ethnic Interaction in Suburban Schools

    Though there has been a marked diversification of many of the nation’s suburban school districts, this does not necessarily mean that suburban students are experiencing greater racial/ethnic interaction at the level of the individual school. Such interaction depends on which schools (and classrooms) suburban students of differing race/ethnicities attend. If suburban schools are highly segregated, […]

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    III. Reporting Crimes to the Police

    Reporting Violent Crime[3. numoffset=”3″ The National Survey of Latinos 2008 question regarding reporting violent crime to the police did not define violent crime.] Nearly eight-in-ten (78%) Hispanics state that if they were a victim of a violent crime, they would definitely report the incident to the police. The likelihood of reporting a violent crime incident […]

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    About the Survey

    ABOUT THE VALUES SURVEY DATA The values project draws on a series of large national surveys conducted since 1987. The project was initiated by the Times Mirror Center for the People & the Press in 1987 and continued by the Pew Research Center for the People & the Press since 1996. Over this period, 14 […]