This paper analyses accounts of a racialized Canada/US border gathered from young white
Canadian border residents. I argue that these accounts clearly support scholarly and activist …

Whereas previous studies of legitimacy and trust have mostly dealt with procedural justice
and the police, this book focuses on other crucial understudied aspects of legitimacy within …

This study examines encounters between youth and police to identify individual, contextual,
and social factors that predict the outcome of these encounters. Young people aged 16–30 …

This paper explores the impact of urban social divisions and changing race relations on the
experiences of disadvantaged youth living on the periphery of two Canadian cities …

This article examines identity construction among second-generation Jamaicans and
Portuguese in Toronto. The research question guiding this study is as follows: in a …

This research draws on longitudinal data from the Project on Human Development in
Chicago Neighborhoods (PHDCN) to examine whether African Americans report more …

Recent scholarship has indicated that political and ethnic threat theories—which maintain
that the use of prison is not only determined by the extent of crime in society but also by …

Canada and the United States share the world's longest international border. For those
living in the immediate vicinity of the Canadian side of the border, the events of 9/11 were a …

Race, Ethnicity, Crime, and Justice: An International Dilemma, Second Edition, takes a
unique comparative approach to the exploration of race-and ethnicity-related justice issues …

A number of studies have examined the relationship between the 'code of the street'and the
concept of snitching (that is, informing the police). With some notable exceptions, these …