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Rojek, J., Rosenfeld, R., & Decker, S. (2004). The influence of driver’s race on traffic stops in Missouri. Police Quarterly, 7(1), 126-147.
policing, population weighting, racial profiling, traffic stops
A small but growing body of research has produced several consistent findings regarding race and ethnic differences in traffic stops,…
Read moreRosenfeld, R., Rojek, J., & Decker, S. (2012). Age matters: Race differences in police searches of young and older male drivers. Journal of research in crime and delinquency, 49(1), 31-55.
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Prior research on police searches of motorists has consistently found that Black drivers are more likely to be searched than…
Read moreRosenfeld, R., & Fornango, R. (2014). The impact of police stops on precinct robbery and burglary rates in New York City, 2003-2010. Justice Quarterly, 31(1), 96-122.
crime rates, police stops
New York City experienced a dramatic reduction in crime during the 1990s and continuing through the first decade of the…
Read moreRowe, M., Turner, E. and Pearson, G. (2016), ‘Learning and Practicing Police Craft’, Journal of Organizational Ethnography, 5(3), pp 276-286.
craft, Ethnography, policing, professional education, professionalization
The authors consider current policy debates in the UK about the professionalisation of the police to respond to changing patterns…
Read moreRowe, M., Pearson, G., & Turner, E. (2017). Body-worn cameras and the law of unintended consequences: Some questions arising from emergent practices. Policing: A Journal of Policy and Practice, 12(1), 83-90.
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Research on body-worn cameras (BWC) has tended, through evaluations or randomized controlled trials, to look to demonstrate some assumed benefit…
Read moreSaarikkomäki, E. (2017). Trust in public and private policing: Young people’s encounters with the police and private security guards. PhD thesis. University of Helsinki
procedural justice, Labelling, police, private security, Trust, Young people
While general trust in the police is high in Finland, young people’s encounters with the police can be problematic. The…
Read moreSahin, N., Braga, A. A., Apel, R., & Brunson, R. K. (2017). The impact of procedurally-just policing on citizen perceptions of police during traffic stops: The Adana randomized controlled trial. Journal of quantitative criminology, 33(4), 701-726.
procedural justice, Legitimacy, police, traffic stops
The process-based model of police legitimacy suggests, when police are perceived to make fair decisions and treat people with respect,…
Read morePeterson, A. (2008). Who ‘Owns’ the Streets? Ritual Performances of Respect and Authority in Interactions Between Young Men and Police Officers. Journal of Scandinavian Studies in Criminology and Crime Prevention, 9(2), 97-118. doi:10.1080/14043850802450104
Erving Goffman, Impression management, Police codes of conduct, Police suppression, Reciprocal relations, Street cultures, Authority, respect, youth
Joining insights from the work of Richard Sennett and Erving Goffman, I probe the power relations which underlie the performances…
Read morePetrocelli, Piquero, & Smith. (2003). Conflict theory and racial profiling: An empirical analysis of police traffic stop data. Journal of Criminal Justice, 31(1), 1-11.
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Using data collected by the Richmond, Virginia Police Department, this article applies conflict theory to police traffic stop practices. In…
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