Is There a Problem Officer? Exploring the Lived Experience of Black Men and Their Relationship with Law Enforcement

Brooks, Michael; Ward, C. Osborne; Euring, Myshalae J.; Townsend, Christopher B.; White, Niah; Hughes, Kim Lee

doi:10.1007/s12111-016-9334-4

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“…Research shows that conversa-15 Differences based on chi-square tests of independence between our four-category measure of police contact and a dichotomous indicator for prior contact (p ≤ .05). tions about "the talk" with Black children are often couched as a matter of personal safety-a wrong move could cost their child their life (Anderson et al, 2021;Brooks et al, 2016). Less is known about the messages White parents transmit to their children.…”

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“…Research has found that Black youth are more likely to expect negative treatment in encounters with the police than White youth (Jones, 2014(Jones, , 2018. Through a process of "armoring" in the form of "the talk," Black parents prepare their children for negative police-related experiences and teach them how to handle themselves during police encounters (Anderson et al, 2021;Brooks et al, 2016). Thus, race differences in the effect of being stopped or arrested may be accounted for by variability in expectations about police behavior during these interactions.…”

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Updating, subtyping, and perceptions of the police: Implications of police contact for youths’ perceptions of procedural justice

Dan‐Irabor,

Slocum,

Wiley

2023

Criminology

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Individuals enter police encounters with expectations about how these interactions will unfold. These expectations are often rooted in racialized personal, vicarious, and collective experiences with the police. Bayesian updating posits that the way youth perceive treatment by the police during stops and arrests combines with prior expectations and perceptions to shape current views of the law, whereas subtyping suggests this process differs by race. This study examines intra‐ and interracial variability in these processes using longitudinal survey data from 3,085 Black and White youth. Regardless of race, youth who indicate they were treated with disrespect during police encounters had lower perceptions of procedural justice than did those with no contact, whereas contact perceived as respectful had no significant effects. For White but not Black youth, police encounters rated as “neutral” are associated with more negative views of the police. Other forms of legal socialization are also racialized, including messages conveyed in the media and by parents. Limited evidence exists that prior views of the police moderate the effect of police encounters on procedural justice or that these conditioning effects vary by race. Findings support updating, but race differences do not neatly align with findings expected with updating or subtyping theory.

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Section: Bayesian Updating Expectancy Disconfirmation and Subtypingmentioning

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Updating, subtyping, and perceptions of the police: Implications of police contact for youths’ perceptions of procedural justice

Dan‐Irabor,

Slocum,

Wiley

2023

Criminology

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“…Additionally, there were differences in concerns related to the criminal justice system. Black respondents voiced concern about interactions with law enforcement, reflecting the vast literature on the heightened surveillance and vigilance of Black people (Brooks et al 2016). Meanwhile, Latino/a respondents pointed to fear of violence in public spaces due to anti-immigration rhetoric.…”

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Marginalized within the Margins: Minority Stress and Identity Centrality

Tuthill

2022

Sociological Inquiry

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Research documents how identity linked processes may have important health implications for people with marginalized or stigmatized identities. While previous work suggests that certain dimensions of identity may moderate the impact of minority stressors to wellbeing, work on identity centrality has yielded mixed findings about the directionality of the relationship between centrality and health. Given the importance of identity centrality on self‐concept, this study highlights how differential exposure to minority stressors matters for identity construction. Drawing from 25 in‐depth interviews on Black and Latino/a sexual minority adults, I examine perceptions of identity centrality and exposure to minority stressors. There are three key findings to highlight. First, results present evidence of intra‐group variability in identity centrality. Second, results indicate that differential exposure to minority stress matters for perceptions of identity centrality. Finally, results note that differentiating between stigma and race related stressors is necessary to better understand experiences of minority stress.

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“…Despite its recent emergence, it is possible to already identify some of the major themes around which discussions have centered. Initial academic discussions have concentrated mostly around the topic of police violence, exploring how policing poses harm to marginalized communities in the United States (Gaber and Wright 2016), documenting the lived experiences of Black Americans with the law enforcement (Brooks et al 2016), discussing the impact of the episodes of police brutality to different academic fields (Pratt-Harris et al 2016), and the need of interventions aiming to increase the psychological and physical health of Black students, employees, and organizations (Barlow 2018; McCluney et al 2017; Opie and Roberts 2017).…”

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In Pursuit of Racial Equality: Identifying the Determinants of Support for the Black Lives Matter Movement with a Systematic Review and Multiple Meta-Analyses

Marques¹,

Micheli²

2022

Perspect. polit.

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The Black Lives Matter (BLM) movement arose to put a much-needed spotlight on police brutality and systemic racism. In two comprehensive studies, we sought to investigate the determinants of support for the BLM movement. First, in a systematic review 1,588 records were identified and findings from twenty-four studies (Npooled=27,691) were narratively synthesized along five categories relating to demographics, race, partisanship and ideology, discrimination and prejudice, and psychology. Second, we exhaustively examined the determinants of BLM support across thirteen probability-based nationally representative datasets (Npooled=31,779), finding thirty-seven common predictors for which individual meta-analyses were conducted to estimate the strength and robustness of their associations. Our results suggest a near perfect match between BLM opposition and positive attitudes towards political actors and institutions rooted in systemic racism in the United States. The present work contributes to a broad categorization of correlates of support for BLM across social, psychological, and political domains.

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Is There a Problem Officer? Exploring the Lived Experience of Black Men and Their Relationship with Law Enforcement

Cited by 11 publications

References 26 publications

Updating, subtyping, and perceptions of the police: Implications of police contact for youths’ perceptions of procedural justice

Updating, subtyping, and perceptions of the police: Implications of police contact for youths’ perceptions of procedural justice

Marginalized within the Margins: Minority Stress and Identity Centrality

In Pursuit of Racial Equality: Identifying the Determinants of Support for the Black Lives Matter Movement with a Systematic Review and Multiple Meta-Analyses

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