Race, community context and confidence in the police

Liqun Cao · James Frank · Francis T. Cullen

435 citations0/0 files storedAmerican Journal of Police

No readable copy stored yet — this record is metadata only.

No open-access location is known for this record yet.

Literature note Cite in a project Citation map

Policing Practices and Perceptions Criminal Justice and Penology Crime Patterns and Interventions

Abstract

Considers the impact of a range of variables on confidence in the police, including those given little or no previous attention, e.g. measures of crime experience and of conservative political orientation. Draws data from a larger study of urban crime‐prevention issues based on Cincinnati, Ohio. Finds that respondents’ race is not a significant determinant of confidence in the police; the most important determinant being the community context. Suggests that neighborhood social integration may provide a supportive context which could encourage positive evaluation of formal institutional arrangements. Finds that attitudes toward the police (ATP) are regulated by the social context and that much of the existing research, which excluded contextual variables, may have been wrong in making race a significant variable. Notes that confidence in the police is higher in women than in men, but this may be due to a lower rate of antagonistic contact between police and women (not measured here).

Paper brief

Loading…

Cite this work

Citation unavailable for this work.

BibTeX RIS CSL-JSON

No public copy is stored for this record, so only the metadata is cited.

Citations in this library

Citation map →

Stored only when both papers are in the corpus — 435 citations exist upstream.

References

1982Mail and Telephone Surveys: The Total Design Method.1979Mail and Telephone Surveys: The Total Design Method.1981Sociology and Social Research 1991Disorder and decline: crime and the spiral of decay in American neighborhoods 1987The Measurement of Fear of Crime*2002Sourcebook of Criminal Justice Statistics 1986The Confidence Gap: Business, Labor, and Government in the Public Mind 1979Citizen Satisfaction with Urban Services: Potential Misuse as a Performance Indicator

Cited by

2015Is the Effect of Procedural Justice on Police Legitimacy Invariant? Testing the Generality of Procedural Justice and Competing Antecedents of Legitimacy 2009Crime, policing and social order: on the expressive nature of public confidence in policing 2004Latino immigrants’ perceptions of crime and police authorities in the United States: A case study from the Phoenix Metropolitan area 2003Citizen Perceptions of Police Services: Race, Neighborhood Context, and Community Policing 2009Race, Class or Neighborhood Context: Which Matters More in Measuring Satisfaction with Police?

Explore the map →

Papers that cite the same references — the relational fallback while embeddings are still backfilling.

Imported from OpenAlex (CC0) — nothing here is generated.