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Race and Perceptions of Police Misconduct
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This article examines perceptions of police misconduct in the United States and the factors that influence these perceptions. Using data from a large, nationally representative survey of whites, African Americans, and Hispanics, we examine how citizens' views of four types of police misconduct—verbal abuse, excessive force, unwarranted stops, and corruption—are shaped by race and other factors, including personal and vicarious experiences with police officers, exposure to mass media coverage of police behavior, and neighborhood conditions. Results show that race remains a key factor in structuring attitudes toward police misconduct even after controlling for these other variables. Race is a strong predictor in large part because blacks and Hispanics are more likely than whites to report having negative interactions with police, to be exposed to media reports of police misconduct, and to live in high-crime neighborhoods where policing may be contentious—each of which increases perceptions of police misconduct. The findings are consistent with the group-position model of race relations.
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- WEITZER, R., & TUCH, S. A.
- Venue
- Social Problems
- Publisher
- Oxford University Press (OUP)
- Published
- 2004-08
- Volume
- 51
- Issue
- 3
- Pages
- 305-325
- ISSN
- 0037-7791 (ISSN-L)
- 1533-8533
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- W2022126779
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- 542
- References
- 51
- FWCI
- 64.35
- Type
- journal article
- Language
- en
- Open access
- closed
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