An important body of work documents how race matters for the patterning of crime and
criminal legal system involvement largely by focusing on comparisons between Blacks and …

Democratic policing today is a widely used approach to policing not only in Western
societies but increasingly around the world. Yet it is rarely defined and it is little understood …

Policing and punishment are unevenly distributed across geographic space. Research
analyzing place-based variation in the criminal legal system is increasing, asking how …

This study examines the influence of racial, demographic and situational variables on types
of police suspicion and the ancillary decision to stop and question suspects. Data were …

The media portrayal of policing is juxtaposed with both positive and negative
representations. As a result, a complex relationship exists between media consumption and …

This study examined whether indicators of compromised police legitimacy explained
variations in violent crime within New York City police precincts from 1975 to 1996 …

Prior studies demonstrating a relationship between racial context and levels of crime control
have not explicitly examined the factors that may account for this relationship. The authors …

This article presents an empirical analysis of the postindustrial policing hypothesis, which
argues that as cities pursue growth strategies designed to appeal to members of the so …

In this paper, we examine use-of-force incidents as neighborhood processes to understand
how rates and levels of use-of-force vary across New York City. We suggest that there are …

Social, political, and economic relationships played key roles in the historical development
of the police. The authors present policing strategies from the vantage points of marginalized …