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Flacks, S. (2018). Law, necropolitics and the stop and search of young people. Theoretical Criminology, 136248061877403.
Michel Foucault, police and policing, race and class, stop and search, youth
Stop and search can harm young people, damage relations between police and the community and alienate ethnic and racial minorities.…
Read moreFlexon, J. L., Greenleaf, R. G., Dariano, D. S., & Gibson, D. (2016). An examination of police stops and youths’ attitudes toward police: Do interracial encounters matter?. Journal of Ethnicity in Criminal Justice, 14(1), 21-39.
Attitudes toward police, Black youth, interracial stops, White police
Little is known about how police–youth experiences influence adolescents’ views toward police, particularly when the officer is White and the…
Read moreEllis, D. (2012). Stop and Search: Disproportionality, Discretion and Generalisations. The Police Journal, 83(3), 1-18.
discretion, intuition, reasonable suspicion, stop and search, suspicion
It has long been recognised that discretion is vital to good police work. However, in Britain (and many other countries),…
Read moreEngel, R. S. (2005). Citizens’ perceptions of distributive and procedural injustice during traffic stops with police. Journal of Research in Crime and Delinquency, 42(4), 445-481.
procedural justice, distributive justice, Injustice, police, racial profiling, traffic stops
This article examines the hypothesis that citizens' perceptions of injustice are based on normative factors (i.e., perceptions of equity and…
Read moreEpp, C. R., Maynard-Moody, S., & Haider-Markel, D. P. (2014). Pulled over: How police stops define race and citizenship. University of Chicago Press.
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In sheer numbers, no form of government control comes close to the police stop. Each year, twelve percent of drivers…
Read moreFagan, J. A., Geller, A., Davies, G. G., & West, V. (2010). Street stops and broken windows revisited: the demography and logic of proactive policing in a safe and changing city In: Rice SK, White MD, editors. Race and ethnicity in policing.
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The contributions of order-maintenance policing and broken windows theory to New York City’s remarkable crime decline have been the subject…
Read moreFagan, J., & Geller, A. (2015). Following the script: Narratives of suspicion in Terry stops in street policing. U. Chi. L. Rev., 82, 51.
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Regulation of Terry stops of pedestrians by police requires articulation of the reasonable and individualized bases of suspicion that motivate…
Read moreFallik, S. W., & Novak, K. J. (2012). The decision to search: Is race or ethnicity important?. Journal of contemporary criminal justice, 28(2), 146-165.
police, racial profiling, searches
This manuscript examines police officer decision making during automobile stops to determine whether Black and Hispanic drivers are searched at…
Read moreFassin, D. (2015) Enforcing Order: An Ethnography of Urban Policing.
disadvantaged neighborhoods, ethnic minorities, minor infractions, urban policing
Over the course of 15 months, at the time of the 2005 riots, Didier Fassin carried out an ethnographic study…
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