CriminologyPub Date : 2023-05-25DOI: 10.1111/1745-9125.12337
Johann Koehler, Tony Cheng
{"title":"Settling institutional uncertainty: Policing Chicago and New York, 1877–1923","authors":"Johann Koehler, Tony Cheng","doi":"10.1111/1745-9125.12337","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1111/1745-9125.12337","url":null,"abstract":"<p>We show how both the Chicago Police Department and the New York Police Department sought to settle uncertainty about their propriety and purpose during a period when abrupt transformations destabilized urban order and called the police mandate into question. By comparing annual reports that the Chicago Police Department and the New York Police Department published from 1877 to 1923, we observe two techniques in how the police enacted that settlement: <i>identification</i> of the problems that the police believed themselves uniquely well equipped to manage and <i>authorization</i> of the powers necessary to do so. Comparison of identification and authorization yields insights into the role that these police departments played in convergent and divergent constructions of disorder and, in turn, into Progressivism's varying effects in early urban policing.</p>","PeriodicalId":48385,"journal":{"name":"Criminology","volume":"61 3","pages":"518-545"},"PeriodicalIF":5.8,"publicationDate":"2023-05-25","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/epdf/10.1111/1745-9125.12337","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"50143618","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":1,"RegionCategory":"社会学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"OA","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
CriminologyPub Date : 2023-05-21DOI: 10.1111/1745-9125.12336
Dallas Augustine
{"title":"Coerced work during parole: Prevalence, mechanisms, and characteristics","authors":"Dallas Augustine","doi":"10.1111/1745-9125.12336","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1111/1745-9125.12336","url":null,"abstract":"<p>Coerced work on parole occurs when people are required to work under the threat of criminal legal repercussions. In the face of barriers to “good” work for people after prison, coercion helps to funnel parolees into positions at the bottom of the labor market. Parolee workers in these positions experience issues common to precarious, low-wage work (low pay, hazardous working conditions, and labor law violations), as well as heightened vulnerability to predatory employers and exposure to parole-prohibited activities. Because of the threat-backed requirements to work, however, parolees must choose to either accept this “bad” work or face potential sanctions. Using mixed-methods, including a novel form of respondent-driven sampling I call “Hybrid-RDS,” this article documents the prevalence of coerced work for people on parole in Los Angeles County, identifies the mechanisms through which coercive work operates, and illustrates the problematic employment conditions of coerced work after prison.</p>","PeriodicalId":48385,"journal":{"name":"Criminology","volume":"61 3","pages":"546-581"},"PeriodicalIF":5.8,"publicationDate":"2023-05-21","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"50148985","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":1,"RegionCategory":"社会学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
CriminologyPub Date : 2023-05-01DOI: 10.1111/1745-9125.12335
Jacob T. N. Young, Travis J. Meyers, Stephanie J. Morse
{"title":"What is “prison culture”? Developing a theoretical and methodological foundation for understanding cultural schema in prison","authors":"Jacob T. N. Young, Travis J. Meyers, Stephanie J. Morse","doi":"10.1111/1745-9125.12335","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1111/1745-9125.12335","url":null,"abstract":"<p>What does it mean to say that a prison has a “culture?” Scholars have long emphasized the presence of a “prison code” and, more recently, a “racial code” as salient cultural domains in men's prisons. Yet, even though most people intuitively understand what is meant by “prison culture,” little progress has been made regarding the conceptualization and operationalization of culture as an analytical construct in prison scholarship. The current study makes two primary contributions to this literature. First, drawing on advances in anthropology, cultural sociology, and cognitive science, we incorporate the concept of cultural schema to provide a concrete analytical construct. Second, we test varying conceptualizations of cultural schema as either characterized by consensus or as overlapping relational structures. Using cultural consensus and correlational class analyses among a sample of 266 incarcerated men, we find little evidence of a culture of consensus for either the prison code or the racial code. Furthermore, we show evidence of heterogenous schema among these cultural domains. Our study is relevant to wider disciplinary work on culture as the problem of analytical precision we address is characteristic of much of the work in criminology and criminal justice that evokes culture as an explanatory device.</p>","PeriodicalId":48385,"journal":{"name":"Criminology","volume":"61 3","pages":"421-448"},"PeriodicalIF":5.8,"publicationDate":"2023-05-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"50116883","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":1,"RegionCategory":"社会学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
CriminologyPub Date : 2023-04-27DOI: 10.1111/1745-9125.12334
Michael Sierra-Arévalo, Justin Nix, Scott M. Mourtgos
{"title":"The “war on cops,” retaliatory violence, and the murder of George Floyd*","authors":"Michael Sierra-Arévalo, Justin Nix, Scott M. Mourtgos","doi":"10.1111/1745-9125.12334","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1111/1745-9125.12334","url":null,"abstract":"<p>The police murder of George Floyd sparked nationwide protests in the summer of 2020 and revived claims that public outcry over such high-profile police killings perpetuated a violent “war on cops.” Using data collected by the Gun Violence Archive (GVA) on firearm assaults of U.S. police officers, we use Bayesian structural time series (BSTS) modeling to empirically assess if and how patterns of firearm assault on police officers in the United States were influenced by the police murder of George Floyd. Our analysis finds that the murder of George Floyd was associated with a 3-week spike in firearm assaults on police, after which the trend in firearms assaults dropped to levels only slightly above that which were predicted by pre-Floyd data. We discuss potential explanations for these findings and consider their relevance to the contemporary discussion of a “war on cops,” violence, and officer safety.</p>","PeriodicalId":48385,"journal":{"name":"Criminology","volume":"61 3","pages":"389-420"},"PeriodicalIF":5.8,"publicationDate":"2023-04-27","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"50145638","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":1,"RegionCategory":"社会学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
CriminologyPub Date : 2023-04-12DOI: 10.1111/1745-9125.12332
Henry Gomory, Matthew Desmond
{"title":"Neighborhoods of last resort: How landlord strategies concentrate violent crime","authors":"Henry Gomory, Matthew Desmond","doi":"10.1111/1745-9125.12332","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1111/1745-9125.12332","url":null,"abstract":"<p>Studies of crime hot spots have argued that landlords’ management styles, specifically their tenant screening and property monitoring techniques, affect crime. These studies, however, have rarely considered the political–economic contexts in which these actions take place: specifically, how landlords’ behaviors are shaped by, and themselves reproduce, larger rental market structures. Drawing on data pertaining to eviction rates, criminal incidents, housing code violations, and landlord behavior in Milwaukee, Wisconsin, this study documents how extractive rental management strategies, such as weak tenant screening, frequent eviction filings, and property disinvestment, concentrate crime at particular properties. In turn, high rates of crime in a neighborhood incentivize these extractive landlord strategies. By showing how landlords’ economic strategies are central to urban crime geographies, this study contributes to our understanding of third-party policing by revealing the limits of market-based solutions to place management dilemmas.</p>","PeriodicalId":48385,"journal":{"name":"Criminology","volume":"61 2","pages":"270-294"},"PeriodicalIF":5.8,"publicationDate":"2023-04-12","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"50149828","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":1,"RegionCategory":"社会学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
CriminologyPub Date : 2023-04-01DOI: 10.1111/1745-9125.12331
Leah C. Butler, Francis T. Cullen, Velmer S. Burton Jr
{"title":"Racial attitudes and belief in redeemability: Most Whites believe justice-involved Black people can change","authors":"Leah C. Butler, Francis T. Cullen, Velmer S. Burton Jr","doi":"10.1111/1745-9125.12331","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1111/1745-9125.12331","url":null,"abstract":"<p>Public belief in redeemability reduces punitiveness and increases support for policy measures such as rehabilitation, expungement, and housing and employment opportunities. Although racial attitudes are known to influence a wide range of criminal justice policy opinions, their effects on beliefs about redeemability and condemnation have not been fully explored. Using data from a 2019 YouGov survey of a national sample of White U.S. adults (N = 766), the current study estimates the effects of three distinct racial attitudes—racial resentment, racial sympathy, and White nationalism—on three measures of belief in redeemability: 1) a race-neutral measure, 2) a measure of belief in redeemability of Black offenders, and 3) a measure of condemnation of Black offenders. The results indicate that belief in redeemability is high—for offenders in general and for Black offenders. These findings are supported by a second 2022 YouGov survey of White U.S. adults (N = 1,505). Racial sympathy and White nationalism have significant effects across all three outcomes, with the positive effect of White nationalism on condemnation of Black offenders being the largest across the three models. These findings suggest that although most Whites agree that formerly incarcerated people are redeemable, racial attitudes influence these beliefs, especially for Black offenders.</p>","PeriodicalId":48385,"journal":{"name":"Criminology","volume":"61 2","pages":"316-353"},"PeriodicalIF":5.8,"publicationDate":"2023-04-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"50114870","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":1,"RegionCategory":"社会学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
CriminologyPub Date : 2023-03-30DOI: 10.1111/1745-9125.12333
Erin Tinney
{"title":"The “STICKINESS” of stigma: Guilt by association after a friend's arrest","authors":"Erin Tinney","doi":"10.1111/1745-9125.12333","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1111/1745-9125.12333","url":null,"abstract":"Prior research has examined the consequences of one’s police contact, but the consequences of vicarious police contact are not as well known. This study expands on labeling theory and the concept of “stickiness” by assessing whether a friend’s arrest increases the likelihood of one’s police contact. Using a sample of rural youth (N = 13,170), I find that a friend’s arrest is associated with an increase in the likelihood of one’s first arrest the next year after accounting for other predictors of police contact. Based on my theoretical framework, I interpret this finding as “guilt by association.” In addition, ending relationships with friends who have been arrested does not significantly impact this relationship. This study concludes that police contact may be harmful for a youth’s social network and builds on the concept of stickiness by suggesting that stigma not only sticks from one individual to another but may also stay despite efforts to end one’s association with the arrested individual. The study expands on preexisting research on the consequences of adolescent police contact by introducing a friend’s police contact as a way","PeriodicalId":48385,"journal":{"name":"Criminology","volume":"61 2","pages":"354-383"},"PeriodicalIF":5.8,"publicationDate":"2023-03-30","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/epdf/10.1111/1745-9125.12333","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"50155864","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":1,"RegionCategory":"社会学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"OA","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
CriminologyPub Date : 2023-03-22DOI: 10.1111/1745-9125.12329
Ayobami Laniyonu, Samuel T. Donahue
{"title":"Effect of racial misclassification in police data on estimates of racial disparities","authors":"Ayobami Laniyonu, Samuel T. Donahue","doi":"10.1111/1745-9125.12329","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1111/1745-9125.12329","url":null,"abstract":"<p>Research on race and policing increasingly draws upon data collected by police officers to estimate racial disparities in police contact. Many of these data sets, however, rely on officer perception of a stopped person's race, which may be inconsistent with how those individuals self-identify. Furthermore, researchers frequently benchmark contact data where race is perceived by police officers against census and survey data where race is self-identified. We argue that discordance between how individuals self-identify and how they are classified by officers can bias estimates of racial disparities. Using a unique data set, which allows us to compare officers’ racial classification of stopped persons with those same persons’ racial self-identification, we characterize rates of racial misclassification in administrative police records. We find evidence of racial misclassification in police records, especially among Hispanic and Asians/Pacific Islanders. We find that officer classification of Hispanics as (non-Hispanic) White is the most common form of racial misclassification in our sample and that its substantive consequences are significant. Specifically, we find that officer classification of Hispanics as White may lead analysts to incorrectly conclude that Hispanics are no more likely than Whites to be cited by police.</p>","PeriodicalId":48385,"journal":{"name":"Criminology","volume":"61 2","pages":"295-315"},"PeriodicalIF":5.8,"publicationDate":"2023-03-22","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"50153355","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":1,"RegionCategory":"社会学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
CriminologyPub Date : 2023-03-02DOI: 10.1111/1745-9125.12330
Janet L. Lauritsen
{"title":"The future of crime data","authors":"Janet L. Lauritsen","doi":"10.1111/1745-9125.12330","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1111/1745-9125.12330","url":null,"abstract":"<p>Criminology lacks sufficient data for many types of crime that are of great concern to society. This lack of data poses significant problems for determining whether resources are adequate for responding to these crimes or whether programmatic, legislative, or target-hardening efforts to prevent or reduce their occurrence are effective. Inadequate data about crime also produces a selective and incomplete narrative about crime that makes it easier for political and vested interests to exploit public concerns about crime for their own ends. In this address, I discuss what is needed to resolve these gaps and the ways in which criminologists can support a significant expansion of the crime data infrastructure. Such work is necessary to help ensure the future relevance of criminological research.</p>","PeriodicalId":48385,"journal":{"name":"Criminology","volume":"61 2","pages":"187-203"},"PeriodicalIF":5.8,"publicationDate":"2023-03-02","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"50118153","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":1,"RegionCategory":"社会学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
CriminologyPub Date : 2023-02-12DOI: 10.1111/1745-9125.12328
Andrea Giuffre, Beth M. Huebner
{"title":"Unpredictable and monetized contact with the police: Race, avoidance behaviors, and modified activity spaces","authors":"Andrea Giuffre, Beth M. Huebner","doi":"10.1111/1745-9125.12328","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1111/1745-9125.12328","url":null,"abstract":"<p>Exponential growth in order maintenance policing and associated misdemeanor sanctions have led to disproportionate consequences for people of color. Using data from qualitative interviews with individuals in the metropolitan St. Louis, Missouri, region, the current study documents the racialized and monetized nature of police contact. This work extends extant scholarship by considering how minor contact with the police shapes individual avoidance behaviors and activity spaces, places where people work and live. We consider how the combination of monetary sanctions, warrants, incarceration, and overpolicing in the region affects avoidance behaviors, particularly for people of color. Our findings suggest that the frequently unpredictable nature of police contacts and the parochial and often profit-focused structure of policing organizations in the region leads individuals to modify the ways in which they move through the region and, for some, to isolate. Narratives reflect the need for constant calibration of behaviors and decisions, as well as the legacy that police contact and monetary sanctions can have on everyday routines.</p>","PeriodicalId":48385,"journal":{"name":"Criminology","volume":"61 2","pages":"234-269"},"PeriodicalIF":5.8,"publicationDate":"2023-02-12","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/epdf/10.1111/1745-9125.12328","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"50129819","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":1,"RegionCategory":"社会学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"OA","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}