Overcriminalization, after all, isn't a matter of who commits crimes, but of how society imagines who criminals are.

毕竟，过度犯罪不是谁犯罪的问题，而是社会如何想象谁是罪犯的问题。

And the effects of this can be clearly seen not only in the data on overcriminalization that I mentioned before, but in studies of race and perceptions of threat.

这种影响不仅可以在我之前提到的关于过度犯罪化的数据中清楚地看到，而且可以在种族和威胁感知的研究中清楚地看到。

Finally, the suspect's race plays a role, as officers are more likely to arrest non-white suspects because of a long-standing association of non-whiteness with criminality – which is the cultural basis for overcriminalization.

最后，嫌疑人的种族也起到了一定的作用，因为长期以来人们将非白人与犯罪联系在一起——这是过度犯罪化的文化基础，因此警察更有可能逮捕非白人嫌疑人。