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Saarikkomäki, Elsa (2018). Young people’s conceptions of trust and confidence in the crime control system: Differences between public and private policing. Criminology & Criminal Justice, 18, 156–172. https://journals.sagepub.com/doi/abs/10.1177/1748895817700695
procedural justice, focus groups, police, private security guards, Trust, youth
Private security increasingly participates in policing, thus changing the field of policing. However, there is a lack of research on…
Read moreSaarikkomäki, Elsa, Haller, Mie Birk, Solhjell, Randi, Alvesalo-Kuusi, Anne, Kolind, Torsten, Hunt, Geoffrey & Burcar Alm, Veronika (2021). Suspected or protected? Perceptions of procedural justice in ethnic minority youth’s descriptions of police relations. Policing and Society, 31:4, 386-401, DOI: 10.1080/10439463.2020.1747462
procedural justice, ethnic minorities, Nordic countries, youth
Research has highlighted the harmful effects of targeted police practices and the subsequent low trust in the police among ethnic…
Read moreSchaap, D., & Saarikkomäki, E. (2022). Rethinking police procedural justice. Theoretical Criminology. https://doi.org/10.1177/13624806211056680
procedural justice, Legitimacy, police, police-citizen relations, Trust
While procedural justice theory has become the dominant paradigm in thinking about police legitimacy, it has several important weaknesses. First,…
Read moreFabien 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 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…
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