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Belur, J. (2011). Police stop and search in India: Mumbai nakabandi. Policing and Society, 21(4), 420-431.
Mumbai police; nakabandi; stop and search; India
The Indian police have wide discretionary powers of stop and search. One peculiar and regular manifestation of this power is…
Read moreAlpert, Geoffrey P., John M. MacDonald, and Roger G. Dunham. “Police suspicion and discretionary decision making during citizen stops.” Criminology 43.2 (2005): 407-434.
citizen stops, Police decision making, police suspicion
This study examines the influence of racial, demographic and situational variables on types of police suspicion and the ancillary decision…
Read moreAnsel-Henry, A. J., Susanne Branner (2003). Konflikt på gadeplan. Når etnisk minoritetsungdom og politi mødes [street conflicts. When ethnic minorities meet]: 1-82. Center for ungdomsforskning, Roskilde Universitetscenter
conflict, ethnic minorities, police, street-level, Young people
The aim of this report is to illuminate the street-level meeting between young Danes with minority ethnic backgrounds and the…
Read moreArenas, L./ García-España, E. (2016). Identificaciones policiales y discriminación racial en España. Evaluación de un programa para su reducción, en Boletín Criminológico, (3) 163.
discrimination, police culture, police stop, racial profiling
According to some studies (ESS, 2010; García Añón et al, 2013), police officers treat people of different races or ethnic…
Read moreArenas García, L. y García-España, E. (2019). “La gestión de la diversidad en la cultura policial: Aproximación empírica a políticas policiales de identificación en calle” en Securitización de las fronteras y criminalización de los inmigrantes en la era de la Globalización. Ediciones jurídicas de Santiago (Chile).
Given the transcendence and impact of police management of diversity in society, this paper aims to conceptually delimit the term,…
Read moreAriel, B., & Tankebe, J. (2018). Racial stratification and multiple outcomes in police stops and searches. Policing and Society, 28(5), 507-525.
arrests, Donald Black, ethnicity, formal warnings, stop and search, Stratification
The present study explores ethnic differences in stop-and-search outcomes. It uses data from 53,858 stop-and-search incidents recorded by a United…
Read moreAasgaard, I. & M. Langford (2019) “Policing”, book chapter in Langford, Skivenes & Søvig (eds), Children Rights in Norway: an Implementation paradox. Oslo: Universitetsforlaget.
Children, racial profiling, stop and search
This chapter specifically addressed racial profiling in Norway. Aasgaard and Langford debates the international critique of Norway (e.g. EU, UN)…
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