Journal article
Racial Encroachment and the Formal Control of Space: Minority Group-Threat and Misdemeanor Arrests in Urban Communities
Justice quarterly, v 30(6), pp 957-982
01 Dec 2013
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Abstract
The study examined the minority group-threat hypothesis across a metropolitan setting to test whether (1) increases in black and Latino representation in communities were associated with increased misdemeanor arrests and (2) if increases in minority groups in historically white communities were associated with increased police arrests. The study argued that threat trigger variables should be measured in terms of difference scores and weighted by initial dominant group representation. The latter argument is informed by the defended neighborhood perspective and assesses the threat hypotheses in historically white communities. Using negative binomial regression modeling that adjusted for spatial autocorrelation, the study found that net of theoretical controls, increases in percent black population were associated with increased black misdemeanor arrests, but only in historically white census tracts. Increases in Latino representation were associated with increased minority misdemeanor arrests both across all tracts generally, as well as in historically majority white tracts.
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- Title
- Racial Encroachment and the Formal Control of Space: Minority Group-Threat and Misdemeanor Arrests in Urban Communities
- Creators
- Robert J. Kane - University of BaltimoreJoseph L. Gustafson - Univ Massachusetts, Dept Criminal Justice & Criminol, Lowell, MA USAChristopher Bruell - Northeastern Univ, Sch Criminol & Criminal Justice, Boston, MA USA
- Publication Details
- Justice quarterly, v 30(6), pp 957-982
- Publisher
- Taylor & Francis
- Number of pages
- 26
- Resource Type
- Journal article
- Language
- English
- Academic Unit
- Criminology and Justice Studies
- Web of Science ID
- WOS:000325785600001
- Scopus ID
- 2-s2.0-84886433626
- Other Identifier
- 991021862510704721
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- Domestic collaboration
- Web of Science research areas
- Criminology & Penology