A SPATIAL AND CONTEXTUAL ANALYIS OF POLICING: EXAMINING BLACK, WHITE AND HISPANIC STOP RATES
| Autor: | Erin C. Lane, Karen F. Parker, Brian J. Stults |
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| Rok vydání: | 2010 |
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| Zdroj: | Journal of Crime and Justice. 33:1-36 |
| ISSN: | 2158-9119 0735-648X |
| DOI: | 10.1080/0735648x.2010.9721278 |
| Popis: | Examining the spatial and contextual features of race and ethnic-specific stop rates, this paper combines structural indicators of concentrated disadvantage and social disorganization with citizen-police contact data on more than 61,000 police stops in the Miami-Dade area. While the existing race-biased policing literature tends to vary greatly in scope and analytical strategy, research that takes into account spatial dynamics coupled with neighborhood characteristics when examining police stop rates has yet to be offered. Furthermore, given the racial and ethnic diversity of the Miami-Dade communities, we assess the often neglected issue of police stops involving Hispanic drivers, in addition to those of whites and African Americans. Our spatial analysis, which allows us to account empirically for the theoretical likelihood that what occurs in one neighborhood is influenced by nearby neighborhoods, reveals differences in spatial clustering of stops involving racial and ethnic groups. Spatial mul... |
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