“Most Officers are More or Less Colorblind”: Police Officers' Reflections on the Role of Race and Ethnicity in Policing

IF 2.1 3区社会学 Q1 CRIMINOLOGY & PENOLOGY

Race and Justice Pub Date : 2022-09-18 DOI:10.1177/21533687221127445

Tobias Kammersgaard, T. F. Søgaard, Torsten Kolind, G. Hunt

引用次数: 2

Abstract

Several studies worldwide have demonstrated that ethnic minorities are more likely to be stopped, questioned and searched by the police. In this paper, we explore how police officers themselves discuss and make sense of ethnic disparities in police stops. Based on interviews with 25 police officers in two police precincts in Denmark the paper illustrates how officers actively reflect on the (un)importance of ethnicity for policing. Findings point to how the officers both rejected that ethnicity directly mattered for who they chose to stop, as well as how they offered alternative and indirect explanations for why ethnic minorities were stopped more often.

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“大多数警察或多或少都是色盲”：警察对种族和民族在警务中作用的思考

世界各地的几项研究表明，少数民族更有可能被警察拦下、盘问和搜查。在本文中，我们探讨了警察自己如何讨论和理解警察拦截中的种族差异。基于对丹麦两个警区的25名警察的采访，本文阐述了警察如何积极反思种族对警务的重要性。调查结果表明，警察既拒绝承认种族对他们选择拦截的对象有直接影响，又对为什么少数民族更经常被拦截提供了替代的间接解释。

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Race and Justice Multiple-

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5.50

自引率

19.00%

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期刊介绍： Race and Justice: An International Journal serves as a quarterly forum for the best scholarship on race, ethnicity, and justice. Of particular interest to the journal are policy-oriented papers that examine how race/ethnicity intersects with justice system outcomes across the globe. The journal is also open to research that aims to test or expand theoretical perspectives exploring the intersection of race/ethnicity, class, gender, and justice. The journal is open to scholarship from all disciplinary origins and methodological approaches (qualitative and/or quantitative).Topics of interest to Race and Justice include, but are not limited to, research that focuses on: Legislative enactments, Policing Race and Justice, Courts, Sentencing, Corrections (community-based, institutional, reentry concerns), Juvenile Justice, Drugs, Death penalty, Public opinion research, Hate crime, Colonialism, Victimology, Indigenous justice systems.