The impact of race/ethnicity, neighborhood context, and police/citizen interaction on residents' attitudes toward the police

Lai, Yung‐Lien; Zhao, Jihong

doi:10.1016/j.jcrimjus.2010.04.042

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“…Unfortunately, Lai and Zhao (2010) include "response to fear of crime" as an indicator for satisfaction with police work and fear of crime as a separate variable making it difficult to parse out the impacts of fear of crime vs. satisfaction with the police on general attitudes towards the police and specific trust in the police.…”

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“…For example, Varano, Schafer, Cancino, and Swatt (2009) found that police were less responsive to crime, property crime in particular, that occurred in higher poverty neighborhoods. Lai and Zhao (2010) found that satisfaction with the police work was strongly related to general attitudes about the police and specific trust in the police department. 8 Police satisfaction was measured using a single Likert item inquiring about the current level of satisfaction with the police.…”

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Fear of crime, incivilities, and collective efficacy in four Miami neighborhoods

Swatt

Varano

Uchida

et al. 2013

Journal of Criminal Justice

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Purpose: Extant literature indicates that individual perceptions of collective efficacy and incivilities are important in explaining fear of crime. These studies, however, often implicitly assume that the relationships between key variables do not differ between neighborhoods. The purpose of this research is to examine the relationship between perceptions of collective efficacy, perceptions of incivilities, and fear of crime and determine whether these relationships are constant between neighborhoods. Methods: Surveys were conducted using a sample of residents from four neighborhoods within Miami-Dade County. Structural equation models were used to examine the relationships between perceptions of collective efficacy, perceptions of incivilities, and fear of crime for each neighborhood separately. Tests for invariance were conducted to determine whether the coefficients from these models differed across neighborhoods. Results: Results from these analyses suggest that the relationship between perceptions of collective efficacy and fear of crime exhibit significant heterogeneity between neighborhoods, as do a number of other relationships. The relationships between perceptions of collective efficacy and perceptions of incivilities, and perceptions of incivilities and fear of crime do not exhibit heterogeneity. Conclusions: These results illustrate the importance of examining perceptions of collective efficacy within the neighborhood context. Implications for policy and future research are discussed.

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Fear of crime, incivilities, and collective efficacy in four Miami neighborhoods

Swatt

Varano

Uchida

et al. 2013

Journal of Criminal Justice

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“…Two early studies show that Hispanics have less favourable views of the police than the general public (Mirande 1981, Carter 1985. Some recent studies reveal that Hispanic attitudes are in the middle ground between Whites and Blacks (Weitzer 2002, Schuck and Rosenbaum 2005, Lai and Zhao 2010, suggesting a racial continuum or gradation. Other recent studies, however, show that Hispanic attitudes towards police are similar to those of Whites (Cheurprakobkit 2000) and in some evaluative areas, such as accountability and misconduct, are more positive than Whites (Weitzer andTuch 2006, Schuck et al 2008).…”

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Race/ethnicity and perceptions of the police: a comparison of White, Black, Asian and Hispanic Americans

2013

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This study extends the dominant BlackÁWhite paradigm in assessing public perceptions of the police by including Hispanic and Asian Americans. Relying on a large random sample of Seattle residents, this study examines: (1) perceptions of police problem-solving, hassling, racial profiling and bias among Hispanic, Asian, Black and White Americans and (2) factors that influence police perceptions. Results reveal both majorityÁminority and inter-minority variations in attitudes towards police, suggesting that a single vertical scale or gradation of attitudes cannot adequately describe the complexity of different racial/ethnic groups' perceptions of multiple aspects of policing. A range of individual demographic, police-and crime-related, and neighbourhood structural and cultural factors influence public perceptions of the police. Some interesting findings include that educational attainment and employment have negative effects on public satisfaction with the police, police visibility is associated with greater satisfaction with police problem-solving yet stronger beliefs on police harassment and racial profiling, and neighbourhood codes of violence is a consistent and outstanding predictor of public perceptions of the police. Possible explanations are provided.

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“…There is, indeed, widespread empirical support for the process-based model of policing (Goodman-Delahunty 2010; Hinds and Murphy 2007;Johnson, Maguire, and Kuhns 2014;Lai and Zhao 2010;Reisig, Bratton, and Gertz 2007;Sunshine and Tyler 2003;Tyler, Schulhofer, and Huq 2010;). However, comparative research studies must be carried out in several sociopolitical contexts -functional democracies, immigrant communities, and other sociopolitical environments -to assess the universality or pervasiveness of the process-based model of policing.…”

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Does procedural justice influence general satisfaction with police? A study from a hard-to-reach population of immigrants in the United States

Pryce

2016

Journal of Crime and Justice

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This study is the first to examine the impact of procedural justice on general satisfaction with the police in a sample of Ghanaian immigrants in the United States. After refining the legitimacy variable used in prior research, trust was found to load disparately from obligation to obey. Obligation to obey was thus employed as an independent variable in the regression analyses. Procedural justice was found to be the strongest predictor of satisfaction with police, although effectiveness and personal experiences also significantly predicted satisfaction. These results establish the importance of procedural justice in gaining satisfaction with the police, and show that obligation may be a discrete variable from legitimacy. Overall, this study's findings show that the police should weave together normative and instrumental models of policing for increased satisfaction with the police in the Ghanaian immigrant community.

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The impact of race/ethnicity, neighborhood context, and police/citizen interaction on residents' attitudes toward the police

Cited by 163 publications

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Fear of crime, incivilities, and collective efficacy in four Miami neighborhoods

Fear of crime, incivilities, and collective efficacy in four Miami neighborhoods

Race/ethnicity and perceptions of the police: a comparison of White, Black, Asian and Hispanic Americans

Does procedural justice influence general satisfaction with police? A study from a hard-to-reach population of immigrants in the United States

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