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Explaining juveniles' attitudes toward the police

Leiber, Michael J., Nalla, Mahesh K., Farnworth, Margaret·1998·Justice Quarterly
DOI 10.1080/07418829800093671
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Past studies of juveniles' attitudes toward the police suggest a single-cause model that implicates personal interactions with the police. We propose that attitudes toward authority and agents of social control develop in a larger, sociocultural context. Specifically we hypothesize that juveniles' attitudes develop as a function of socialization in their communities' social environment, of their deviant subcultural “preferences,” and of the prior effect of these sociocultural factors on juveniles' contacts with the police. We conducted analyses addressing these hypotheses with a population of males sampled within stratified populations of known delinquents. We found that social background variables, particularly minority status, and subcultural preferences, particularly commitment to delinquent norms, affected juveniles' attitudes toward the police both directly and indirectly (through police-juvenile interactions). We consider directions for improving police relations with juveniles in the context of apparent sociocultural and experiential contingencies to attitude development.

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  • Extra policing attention afforded to youth (such as moving on groups of youth who have not done anything wrong) leads young people to take a view that the police are exercising their authority unfairly.

    “research finds that the extra policing attention afforded to youth (such as moving on groups of youth who have not done anything wrong) leads young people to take a view that the police are exercising their authority unfairly (Fagan & Tyler, 2005;Hurst & Frank, 2000;Leiber, Nalla, & Farnworth, 1998;Murphy & Gaylor, 2010;Piquero, Fagan, Mulvey, Steinberg, & Odgers, 2005).”

    From Legitimacy in Policing: A Systematic Review (2013) · cites this paper as Leiber, Nalla, & Farnworth, 1998

  • Research concerning citizens' attitudes toward police has consistently found that black adults and adolescents report more dissatisfaction and distrust than their counterparts from other racial groups.

    “Specifically, research concerning citizens' attitudes toward police has consistently found that black adults and adolescents report more dissatisfaction and distrust than their counterparts from other racial groups (Hurst & Frank, 2000;Hurst, Frank, & Browning, 2000;Leiber, Nalla, & Farnworth, 1998;Taylor, Turner, Finn-Aage, & Winfree, 2001).”

    From Procedural Justice and Order Maintenance Policing: A Study of Inner‐City Young Men’s Perceptions of Police Legitimacy (2010) · cites this paper as Leiber, Nalla, & Farnworth, 1998

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Authors
Leiber, M. J., Nalla, M. K., & Farnworth, M.
Affiliations
  • University of Northern Iowa (US)
  • Michigan State University (US)
  • Sam Houston State University (US)
ORCID
Nalla, Mahesh K.
Venue
Justice Quarterly
Publisher
Informa UK Limited
Published
1998-03-01
Volume
15
Issue
1
Pages
151-174
ISSN
  • 0741-8825 (ISSN-L)
  • 1745-9109
DOI
10.1080/07418829800093671
OpenAlex
W2033849788
Cited by
218
References
2
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FWCI
22.35
Type
journal article
Language
en
Open access
closed
Locations
  • Justice Quarterly (publishedVersion)
  • UNI ScholarWorks (University of Northern Iowa) (submittedVersion)
Topics
  • Social Sciences › Political Science and International Relations › Policing Practices and Perceptions
  • Social Sciences › Sociology and Political Science › Crime Patterns and Interventions
  • Social Sciences › Sociology and Political Science › Crime, Deviance, and Social Control
Keywords
juvenile delinquency, delinquent subculture, minority status, socialization, sociocultural context, police-community relations

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