Experience, quality of life, and neighborhood context: A hierarchical analysis of satisfaction with police

Autor:	Roger B. Parks, Michael D. Reisig
Rok vydání:	2000
Předmět:	Quality of life (healthcare) Hierarchical analysis Multilevel model Data file Neighborhood context Experience quality Explained variation Psychology Law Social psychology Pathology and Forensic Medicine Test (assessment)
Zdroj:	Justice Quarterly. 17:607-630
ISSN:	1745-9109 0741-8825
DOI:	10.1080/07418820000094681
Popis:	We test three different conceptual models—“experience with police,” “quality of life,” and “neighborhood context”—for directional accuracy and ability to explain satisfaction with the police. We also investigate whether these models help to explain the common finding that African-Americans are more dissatisfied with the police than are Caucasians. To do so, we use hierarchical linear modeling to simultaneously regress our outcome measure on clusters of citizen- and neighborhood-level variables. The analysis was conducted using recently collected information from the Project on Policing Neighborhoods (POPN). The data file consisted of survey responses from 5,361 citizens residing in 58 neighborhoods located in Indianapolis, Indiana and St. Petersburg, Florida. At the citizen level, the psychologically based “quality of life” model accounts for the greatest proportion of explained variance and provides the greatest directional accuracy. Also, residents of neighborhoods characterized by concentrated disadvan...
Databáze:	OpenAIRE
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