Do White and Black People Truly View the Police Differently? Findings from a Study of Crime Hot Spots in Baltimore, Maryland

IF 1.8 2区 社会学 Q2 CRIMINOLOGY & PENOLOGY
Kiseong Kuen, CJ Appleton, David Weisburd, Clair V. Uding
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Abstract

While numerous studies demonstrate that Black individuals have more negative perceptions of the police than their White counterparts, few have simultaneously examined racial differences in perceptions of procedural justice, police effectiveness, and legitimacy. Additionally, limited research has rigorously examined the relationship between race and perceptions of the police while carefully accounting for potentially relevant factors that could influence this relationship. Using unique survey data largely drawn from crime hot spots in Baltimore, Maryland, we examined the differences between White (n = 500) and Black (n = 2,452) individuals’ perceptions of procedural justice, police effectiveness, and police legitimacy. Furthermore, by conducting propensity-score matching on White and Black residents in our data, we compared perceptions of the police between 394 pairs of similarly situated Black and White residents who were matched based on demographics, victimization, offending, self-control, recent experiences with the police, perceived police presence, and street environments. Results indicated that while Black people have more negative perceptions of procedural justice than White people, they do not hold different perceptions regarding police effectiveness and obligation to obey. These findings hold even when comparing the matched White and Black people. Our findings suggest a nuanced relationship between race and perceptions of the police.

白人和黑人对警察的看法真的不同吗?来自马里兰州巴尔的摩市犯罪热点研究的发现
虽然大量的研究表明,黑人对警察的负面看法比白人多,但很少有人同时调查在程序正义、警察效率和合法性方面的种族差异。此外,有限的研究严格审查了种族和对警察的看法之间的关系,同时仔细考虑了可能影响这种关系的潜在相关因素。利用主要来自马里兰州巴尔的摩犯罪热点的独特调查数据,我们研究了白人(n = 500)和黑人(n = 2452)个人对程序正义、警察效率和警察合法性的看法的差异。此外,通过在我们的数据中对白人和黑人居民进行倾向得分匹配,我们比较了394对处境相似的黑人和白人居民对警察的看法,他们根据人口统计、受害、犯罪、自我控制、最近与警察的经历、感知到的警察存在和街道环境进行匹配。结果表明,尽管黑人对程序正义的负面看法多于白人,但他们对警察效率和服从义务的看法并不不同。这些发现甚至在比较匹配的白人和黑人时也成立。我们的研究结果表明,种族和对警察的看法之间存在微妙的关系。
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American Journal of Criminal Justice
American Journal of Criminal Justice CRIMINOLOGY & PENOLOGY-
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11.30
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期刊介绍: The American Journal of Criminal Justice, the official journal of the Southern Criminal Justice Association, is a peer reviewed publication; manuscripts go through a blind review process. The focus of the Journal is on a wide array of criminal justice topics and issues. Some of these concerns include items pertaining to the criminal justice process, the formal and informal interplay between system components, problems and solutions experienced by various segments, innovative practices, policy development and implementation, evaluative research, the players engaged in these enterprises, and a wide assortment of other related interests. The American Journal of Criminal Justice publishes original articles that utilize a broad range of methodologies and perspectives when examining crime, law, and criminal justice processing.
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