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DEMEANOR OR CRIME? THE MIDWEST CITY POLICE‐CITIZEN ENCOUNTERS STUDY*
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There is agreement in the literature on policing that demeanor and other extralegal variables help determine police decisions. A recent challenge to that agreement has been issued, however. Klinger (1994) has asserted that nearly all previous quantitative analyses of the effects of demeanor and other extralegal variables are fatally pawed because they failed to limit demeanor to spoken words and failed to control for crime. He concluded that all previous research is suspect until additional analyses of the data sets used in previous research and new observational research are presented. This research starts the first of these tasks by reporting additional analyses of data from three previously published papers based on the Midwest City Police‐Citizen Encounters Study. With demeanor limited to spoken words and crime partially controlled, the reanalyzed data suggest that the effects of demeanor depend on how demeanor is represented and, to a lesser extent, model specification. Consequently, caution with respect to existing reports of the effects of demeanor and other extralegal variables remains necessary. In addition, carefully controlling for crime and limiting demeanor to spoken words may not be the only problems surrounding efforts to assess the effects of demeanor. This research suggests that multiple representations of demeanor and more fully specified models may be important as well.
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“In a later follow-up study, Lundman (1994) found that Native American adults were more likely to be arrested for public drunkenness and traffic violations (net of control variables such as type of event, suspect demeanor, and others), but Native American juveniles were not more likely to be arrested than white youth.”
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- Authors
- LUNDMAN, R. J.
- Affiliations
- The Ohio State University (US)
- Corresponding author
- LUNDMAN, RICHARD J.
- Venue
- Criminology
- Publisher
- Wiley
- Published
- 1994-11
- Volume
- 32
- Issue
- 4
- Pages
- 631-656
- ISSN
- 0011-1384 (ISSN-L)
- 1745-9125
- OpenAlex
- W2013466075
- Cited by
- 102
- References
- 0
- Citations by year
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- FWCI
- 28.89
- Type
- journal article
- Language
- en
- Open access
- closed
- Locations
- Criminology (publishedVersion)
- Topics
- Social Sciences › Political Science and International Relations › Policing Practices and Perceptions
- Social Sciences › Sociology and Political Science › Crime Patterns and Interventions
- Social Sciences › Psychology › Social Psychology › Deception detection and forensic psychology
- Keywords
- police-citizen encounters, police decision-making, crime control, model specification, spoken word
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