| Autor: |
Lawton, Brian, Taylor, Ralph |
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Conference Papers - American Society of Criminology; 2005 Annual Meeting, Toronto, pN.PAG, 0p |
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Recently, a greater emphasis has been placed on the role of contextual factors that may drive citizens' perceptions of police and the criminal justice system in general. No single study, however, has examined the relative contribution of rural vs. suburban vs. urban locations as compared to demographics. We conduct such an examination to see if earlier observed contextual differences are largely compositional in nature. In 2003 Temple University conducted over 1000 telephone surveys of residents across the state of Pennsylvania. Grouping respondents into counties coded with a modified rural-urban continuum, multilevel analyses found demographic variables alone explained approximately 2/3rd's of all the contextual variation for both dependent variables. This suggests that individual variation is substantially driving reported differences on the dependent variables across the rural-urban continuum. In addition, for both outcomes, the negative scores reported by individuals residing within the core counties (Philadelphia and Allegheny) can be explained by the race, age and education of the respondent. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR] |
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