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Fabien Jobard et al. (2012). Measuring Appearance-Based Discrimination: an Analysis of Identity Checks in Paris. Population (Vol. 67), p. 423-451
discrimination, France, identity check, minorities, police, profiling
This article sets out the main results of a survey conducted by the Centre for Sociological Research on Law and…
Read moreOberwittler 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 moreWortley, S., & Owusu-Bempah, A. (2011). The usual suspects: Police stop and search practices in Canada. Policing and Society, 21(4), 395-407.
This paper explores police stop and search activities in Canada using data from a 2007 survey of Toronto residents. The…
Read moreYesufu, S. (2013). Discriminatory Use of Police Stop-and-Search Powers in London, UK. International Journal of Police Science & Management, 15(4), 281-293.
discrimination, police, prejudice, racism, stop and search
This paper has three purposes: first, to highlight the history of police abuses of power in relation to dealing with…
Read moreYunliang Meng. (2017). Profiling minorities: Police stop and search practices in Toronto, Canada. Human Geographies: Journal of Studies and Research in Human Geography, 11(1), 5-23.
Black youth, GIS, police stops, Toronto.
This paper explores police stop and search practices in Toronto using the 2003-2012 data from Toronto Police Service. The findings…
Read moreWästerfors, D. & V. B. Alm (2019) “‘They are harsher to me than to my friend who is blonde’. Police critique among ethnic minority youth in Sweden”, Journal of Youth Studies. DOI: 10.1080/13676261.2019.1592129
comparisons, identifications, discrimination, Ethnic profiling, ethnicity, racism
Young people belonging to categories and living in areas that are targeted by the police find more arguments for detailed…
Read moreWeber, L., & Bowling, B. (2011). Stop and search in global context. Policing and Society, 21(4), 353-356.
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Introduction to book of same name
Read moreWeisburd, D., Telep, C., & Lawton, B. (2014). Could Innovations in Policing have Contributed to the New York City Crime Drop even in a Period of Declining Police Strength?: The Case of Stop, Question and Frisk as a Hot Spots Policing Strategy. Justice Quarterly, 31(1), 129-153.
crime decline, hot spots policing, New York City, police innovation, question and frisk, stop
Available data make it impossible to reach strong conclusions about the role of policing in the New York crime decline.…
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…
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