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Oberwittler D., Roché S. (2018). Ethnic disparities in police-initiated contacts of adloscents and attitudes towards the police in France and Germany. In Oberwittler D., Roché S. (Eds.), Police-citizen relations across the world. Comparing sources and contexts of trust and legitimacy, Abingdon, Routledge, 73-107.
discrimination, minorities, police, police stops
None. But: "Police initiated contact is a common experience for many adolescents in France and Germany, yet while police in…
Read moreHunold, D., Oberwittler, D., & Lukas, T. (2016). ‘I’d like to see your identity cards please’–Negotiating authority in police–adolescent encounters: Findings from a mixed-method study of proactive police practices towards adolescents in two German cities. European Journal of Criminology, 13(5), 590-609.
procedural justice, Legitimacy, participant observation, police, urban riots
Next to exclusionary and discriminatory practices in other live domains, tense police–adolescent relations and the treatment of ethnic minority adolescents…
Read morede Maillard, J., Hunold, D., Roché, S., & Oberwittler, D. (2018). Different styles of policing: discretionary power in street controls by the public police in France and Germany. Policing and society, 28(2), 175-188.
comparison, discrimination, police, proactive policing, stop and search, street policing
By analysing French and German police stop and search on the streets based on embedded observations in police patrols and…
Read moreCao, L. (2001). A Problem in no-Problem-Policing in Germany: Confidence in the Police Germany and USA. European Journal of Crime, Criminal Law & Criminal Justice, 9(3), 167–179. https://doi.org/10.1163/15718170120519390
comparative research, Germany, history, police, Trust, US
This article compares the confidence toward the police in Germany, and in the U.S., and explores the differences in the…
Read moreBelina, Bernd & Svenja Keitzel (2018): Racial Profiling. Kriminologisches Journal 50(1): 18-24.
Institutional racism, Justice, Law, police, racial profiling
Like no other field of science critical criminology is predestined to analyze and criticize racial profiling. This paper identifies three…
Read moreAmnesty International (2014) Racial/ethnic profiling: Positionspapier zu menschenrechtswidrigen personenkontrollen. Sektion der Bundesrepublik Deutschland e. V.
Ethnic/racial profiling, Institutional racism, Justice, Law, police
The report concerns the issue of racial profiling in Germany, namely those who supposedly "do not look like Germans" and…
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