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McAra, L., & McVie, S. (2005). The usual suspects?:Street-life, young people and the police. Criminal Justice, 5(1), 5-36. doi:10.1177/1466802505050977
This article explores children's experience of policing. Drawing on findings from the Edinburgh Study of Youth Transitions and Crime, it…
Read moreJobard, F., & Lévy, R. (2011). Racial profiling: The Parisian police experience. Canadian Journal of Criminology and Criminal Justice, 53(1), 87-93.
The controversy over racial profiling in policing that is explored within the pages of the Canadian Journal of Criminology and…
Read moreJohnson, R. R. (2004). Citizen expectations of police traffic stop behavior. Policing, 27(4), 487-497.
The most frequent type of citizen complaint filed against police officers involves how the officer uses interpersonal communication. The most…
Read moreKääriäinen, J. & Niemi, J. (2014). Distrust of the police in a Nordic Welfare State: Victimization, Discrimination, and Trust in the Police by Russian and Somali Minorities in Helsinki. Journal of Ethnicity in Criminal Justice, 12(1), 4-24
This study focuses on trust in the police among Russian and Somali minorities living in Finland. Three hypotheses are tested:…
Read moreKeskinen et al. (2018). The Stopped: Spaces, Meanings and Practices of Ethnic Profiling –study. Sskh reports and discussion papers
Part of a larger study. This research examined ethnic profiling in Finland with a focus on its prevalence, forms and…
Read moreKyvsgaard, B. (2001). “Kriminalitet, retshaandhaevelse og etniske minoriteter.” Juristen.
It is well known that people with a foreign ethnic background are overrepresented in the criminal justice system. The difference…
Read moreLalander, P. (2017). Staging “Chileanness”: Ethnicity, illegal drug economy and social structures. Drugs: Education, Prevention and Policy, 24(3), 240-247. doi:10.1080/09687637.2016.1264371
Aim: Following a group of young men with Chilean background living in a Swedish territorially stigmatised area, the author analyses…
Read moreHenry, T. K. S., & Franklin, T. W. (2017). Police Legitimacy in the Context of Street Stops: The Effects of Race, Class, and Procedural Justice. Criminal Justice Policy Review
Citizens’ perceptions of the police have been recognized as a long-standing issue of significant importance. Positive perceptions of the police,…
Read moreHer Majesty’s Inspectorate of Constabulary. (2013). Stop and search powers: Are the police using them effectively and fairly?
Survey of 19,078 people across England and Wales about their opinions of the use of stop and search powers. Survey…
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