The Role of Police Officer Race/Ethnicity on Crime Rates in Immigrant Communities

IF 2.1 3区社会学 Q1 CRIMINOLOGY & PENOLOGY

Race and Justice Pub Date : 2021-01-01 DOI:10.1177/2153368718777278

Joselyne L. Chenane, E. Wright

{"title":"The Role of Police Officer Race/Ethnicity on Crime Rates in Immigrant Communities","authors":"Joselyne L. Chenane, E. Wright","doi":"10.1177/2153368718777278","DOIUrl":null,"url":null,"abstract":"Few studies have examined the role of city police officer racial/ethnic representation on violent crime in immigrant neighborhoods. Yet police officer race/ethnicity might play a significant role in bolstering or weakening the relationship between immigration and violent crime rates. Researchers have posited that increasing the representation of minority officer would be an important avenue for making police departments more accountable to the communities they serve. The current study contributes to existing research by using national (i.e., 89 cities and 8,980 neighborhoods) data on violent crime from large U.S. cities. We examine the relationship between immigration, violent crime rates, and minority police officer representation using multilevel modeling techniques. Results indicate that neighborhood immigrant concentration is associated with lower robbery and homicide rates. Moreover, the negative relationship between immigrant concentration and violent crime rates is strengthened by city African American and Hispanic officer representation. Policy implications for law enforcement are discussed.","PeriodicalId":45275,"journal":{"name":"Race and Justice","volume":"11 1","pages":"3 - 27"},"PeriodicalIF":2.1000,"publicationDate":"2021-01-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://sci-hub-pdf.com/10.1177/2153368718777278","citationCount":"24","resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":null,"PeriodicalName":"Race and Justice","FirstCategoryId":"90","ListUrlMain":"https://doi.org/10.1177/2153368718777278","RegionNum":3,"RegionCategory":"社会学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":null,"EPubDate":"","PubModel":"","JCR":"Q1","JCRName":"CRIMINOLOGY & PENOLOGY","Score":null,"Total":0}

引用次数: 24

Abstract

Few studies have examined the role of city police officer racial/ethnic representation on violent crime in immigrant neighborhoods. Yet police officer race/ethnicity might play a significant role in bolstering or weakening the relationship between immigration and violent crime rates. Researchers have posited that increasing the representation of minority officer would be an important avenue for making police departments more accountable to the communities they serve. The current study contributes to existing research by using national (i.e., 89 cities and 8,980 neighborhoods) data on violent crime from large U.S. cities. We examine the relationship between immigration, violent crime rates, and minority police officer representation using multilevel modeling techniques. Results indicate that neighborhood immigrant concentration is associated with lower robbery and homicide rates. Moreover, the negative relationship between immigrant concentration and violent crime rates is strengthened by city African American and Hispanic officer representation. Policy implications for law enforcement are discussed.

查看原文本刊更多论文

警察种族/民族在移民社区犯罪率中的作用

很少有研究调查城市警察种族/民族代表在移民社区暴力犯罪中的作用。然而，警察的种族/民族可能在加强或削弱移民与暴力犯罪率之间的关系方面发挥重要作用。研究人员认为，增加少数族裔警官的代表性将是使警察部门对他们所服务的社区更负责任的重要途径。目前的研究通过使用来自美国大城市的全国(即89个城市和8,980个社区)暴力犯罪数据，为现有的研究做出了贡献。我们使用多层建模技术研究了移民、暴力犯罪率和少数民族警察代表之间的关系。结果表明，社区移民集中与较低的抢劫和凶杀率有关。此外，移民集中度与暴力犯罪率之间的负相关关系在城市非裔美国人和西班牙裔官员代表中得到加强。讨论了对执法的政策影响。

本文章由计算机程序翻译，如有差异，请以英文原文为准。

求助全文

约1分钟内获得全文求助全文

来源期刊

Race and Justice Multiple-

CiteScore

5.50

自引率

19.00%

发文量

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.