Journal article
On the limits of social control: Structural deterrence and the policing of "suppressible" crimes
Justice quarterly, v 23(2), pp 186-213
01 Jun 2006
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Abstract
The present study examined the relationships between patterns of police arrests and subsequent variations in robbery, burglary, and aggravated assault in New York City police precincts from 1989 to 1998. Grounded in the structural deterrence theoretical perspective, and using a two-stage fixed-effects statistical framework, the study found that white controlling for indicators of social disorganization, increases in arrest vigor (i.e., arrests per officer for violent crimes in each precinct and raw arrest counts) predicted decreases in robbery and burglary, but that the relationships were non-linear: as arrest vigor increased, robbery and burglary crime decreased; when arrest thresholds were reached, however, both robbery and burglary crime rates became positively associated with arrest aggressiveness. Conversely, variations in aggressive arrest patterns had no significant effect on aggravated assault, supporting the suppressible crimes arguments that primarily economically motivated crimes, and those that tend to occur in public settings, are most likely deterred by aggressive police practices.
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- Title
- On the limits of social control: Structural deterrence and the policing of "suppressible" crimes
- Creators
- Robert J. Kane
- Publication Details
- Justice quarterly, v 23(2), pp 186-213
- Publisher
- Taylor & Francis
- Number of pages
- 28
- Resource Type
- Journal article
- Language
- English
- Academic Unit
- Criminology and Justice Studies
- Web of Science ID
- WOS:000237912600002
- Scopus ID
- 2-s2.0-33646507923
- Other Identifier
- 991021862506504721
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