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de Maillard, J., Zagrodzki, M. (2017). Styles de police et légitimité policière. La question des contrôles. Droit et Société, n°97, p. 485-501.
Police – Police and public relationship – Police legitimacy – Police organization – Policing styles – Stop and search – Street policing
Policing styles are reflected in law enforcement agencies’ methods, deci- sions, and priorities. Based on an ethnographic study of police…
Read moreNicolas Jounin et al. (2015). Le faciès du contrôle. Contrôles d’identité, apparence et modes de vie des étudiant(e)s en Île-de-France. Déviance et Société (Vol. 39), p. 3-29
appearance, discrimination, ID checks, police, race, racism
Based on a quantitative survey among students, this article looks at the way police offi- cers carry out stops and…
Read moreTiratelli, M., Quinton, P., & Bradford, B. (2018). Does Stop and Search Deter Crime? Evidence From Ten Years of London-wide Data. The British Journal of Criminology, 58(5), 1212-1231.
deterrence, policing, stop and search
In this article, we used ten years of police, crime and other data from London to investigate the potential effect…
Read moreTyler, T. R., Fagan, J., & Geller, A. (2014). Street stops and police legitimacy: Teachable moments in young urban men’s legal socialization. Journal of empirical legal studies, 11(4), 751-785.
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An examination of the influence of street stops on the legal socialization of young men showed an association between the…
Read moreTyler, T. R., Jackson, J., & Mentovich, A. (2015). The consequences of being an object of suspicion: Potential pitfalls of proactive police contact. Journal of Empirical Legal Studies, 12(4), 602-636.
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During the latter half of the 20 century American policing became more professional (Skogan & Frydl, 2004) and the rate…
Read moreWaddington, P., Stenson, K., & Don, D. (2004). In proportion – Race, and police stop and search. British Journal Of Criminology, 44(6), 889-914.
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This article examines the view, expressed authoritatively in the Macpherson report (1999), that racial disproportionality in police stop and search…
Read moreVanassche, N. & A. Verhage (2015) Racisme en etnisch profileren door politie: in België? Cahiers Politiestudies, 35-58
Belgium, Ethnic minority youth, Ethnic profiling, police, racism
The authors examine to what extent the ethnic minority youth of Kortrijk experiences the actions of the police as racist.…
Read moreVerwee, I. (2013) De politierol bekeken door de bril van de burger. Een caleidoscoop van verwachtingen en betekenissen. Antwerpen: Maklu
citizen, police, role
Verwee examined the way in which the population describes the role of the police. She noticed big differences between population…
Read moreVincejová, E. (2010). PhD thesis
Vincejová in her PhD thesis (2010) researched activities of the police in relation to the protection of the rights of…
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