Importance Black youth in the US experience disproportionate contact with police even
when accounting for criminal or delinquent behavior, which some experts say is fueled by …

The police need public support and cooperation to be effective in controlling crime and
holding offenders accountable. In many disadvantaged communities of color, poor …

The mission of policing is “to protect and serve,” but recent events suggest that many
Americans, and especially Black Americans, do not feel protected from the police …

In sheer numbers, no form of government control comes close to the police stop. Each year,
twelve percent of drivers in the United States are stopped by the police, and the figure is …

Adolescence is a distinct, yet transient, period of development between childhood and
adulthood characterized by increased experimentation and risk-taking, a tendency to …

Following the high-profile deaths of eighteen-year-old Michael Brown in Ferguson, Missouri,
and twenty-five-year-old Freddie Gray in Baltimore, Maryland, both cities erupted in protest …

Much of the research on police—citizen relations has focused on adults, not youth. Given
that adolescents and particularly young males are more likely than adults to have …

Past research has shown that procedural justice enhances an authority's legitimacy and
encourages people to cooperate with them. However, this past research has examined …

We extend existing research on police use of coercive mechanisms of social control against
racial/ethnic minority populations by testing three structural hypotheses regarding excessive …

PURPOSE: Many studies have lent empirical support to the procedural justice model of
police legitimacy; however, there has, as yet, not been widespread consideration of the …