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Bridenball, Blaine; Jesilow, Paul

doi:10.1177/1098611107313942

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“…Responses range from low (1) to high (4) exposure. Negative contact with police contributes to worse assessments of police (Bridenball & Jesilow, 2008;Hinds, 2009). We include a measure of negative police contact in the prior year coded 1 if the respondent reported negative contact, and 0 if the contact was positive, or there was no police contact.…”

Section: Control Variablesmentioning

confidence: 99%

Crime victimization distress, neighbourhood social cohesion and perceived police effectiveness

Avery

Hermsen

Towne

2020

Community & Applied Soc Psy

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Despite important policy implications, there is scant research on the relationship between distress from victimization and perceptions of police effectiveness. This study investigates the relationship between extent of distress due to violent victimization and perceptions of local law enforcement. In addition, we examine the way that perceived neighbourhood social cohesion accounts for the relationship. We use data from a U.S. statewide victimization survey to estimate regression models that compare victims of violent crime with no/mild distress, victims with moderate/severe distress and nonvictims of violent crime on ratings of police effectiveness. Models include controls for local crime and poverty rates, demographic characteristics, property crime victimization and respondents' exposure to negative policing via media and their own contact with law enforcement. Results show that 10% of respondents are victims of violent crime, and among victims, 40% report no/mild distress and 60% report moderate/severe distress. While victims with greater distress rate police lower on the effectiveness scale, these differences can be accounted for by controls for neighbourhood context, especially the level of perceived social cohesion. Results suggest neighbourhood social environments should be incorporated into models of perceptions of police effectiveness and policing more broadly and that increasing social cohesion may improve police-community dynamics.

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Section: Control Variablesmentioning

confidence: 99%

Crime victimization distress, neighbourhood social cohesion and perceived police effectiveness

Avery

Hermsen

Towne

2020

Community & Applied Soc Psy

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“…Another consistent finding is that race/ethnicity influences attitudes toward the police. While a few scholars have concluded that race/ethnicity is not a robust predictor of confidence in the police (Bridenball and Jesilow, 2008;Cao and Wu, 2019), numerous studies indicate that racial/ethnic minorities view the police less favorably than do Whites (Hollis and Jennings, 2018;Peck, 2015;Reisig and Parks, 2000). To provide a couple of examples, Graham et al (2020) found that racial/ethnic minorities were significantly more likely than Whites to worry about being the victim of police violence and Mourtgos and Adams (2020, p. 886) reported "that race and minority ethnicity appear to be the most substantial influences on citizen assessments of police use-of-force."…”

Section: Demographic Characteristics: Age Race/ethnicity Gender and S...mentioning

confidence: 99%

“…Beyond the consensus that young people and racial/ethnic minorities view the police more negatively than older adults and Whites, the impact of demographic characteristics on perceptions of the police is equivocal (Brown and Benedict, 2002). There are studies which indicate that gender does not affect attitudes toward the police (Bridenball and Jesilow, 2008;Vogel, 2011;Wu et al, 2009), that females view the police more favorably than do males (Gabbidon et al, 2011;McCluskey et al, 2008) and that males view the police more favorably than do females (Correia et al, 1996;Mourtgos and Adams, 2020). For instance, Lai and Zhao (2010) reported that gender did not significantly impact a composite measure of trust in the police which included concerns about the police use of tasers, Thompson and Lee (2004) found that the effects of gender on perceptions of police violence varied depending upon the situation in which violence was used, and Mourtgos and Adams (2020) reported that women were more likely than men to be critical of the police use of force.…”

Section: Demographic Characteristics: Age Race/ethnicity Gender and S...mentioning

confidence: 99%

“…Similarly, research has yielded mixed results about the impact of education and socioeconomic status on confidence in the police. Some researchers have concluded that income and education do not significantly affect attitudes toward the police (Bridenball and Jesilow, 2008;Correia et al, 1996;Johnson and Kuhns, 2009), some studies indicate that well educated individuals view the police more favorably than persons with lower levels of education (Arthur and Case, 1994), and some scholars found an inverse relationship between educational attainment and satisfaction with the police (Haberman et al, 2016). For example, using a composite gauge of social class consisting of education, employment and home ownership, Wu et al (2009) found that middle class persons viewed the police more favorably than did persons in the lower class, but in a later study Wu (2014) found that employment and education were inversely associated with confidence in the police.…”

Section: Demographic Characteristics: Age Race/ethnicity Gender and S...mentioning

confidence: 99%

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Public perceptions of the police and violence: an examination of both sides of the issue

Davila

Hartley

Brown

2023

PIJPSM

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PurposeThe purpose of this study is to gain a broad understanding of public perceptions of the police and violence.Design/methodology/approachThis study uses survey data collected from a nationally representative sample (N = 1,223) by the National Opinion Research Center (NORC) Center for Public Affairs Research at the University of Chicago. Descriptive, bivariate correlational and multivariate regression analyses of the data were conducted.FindingsDescriptive analyses show the populace is equally concerned about the police use of violence and violence against the police, but bivariate analyses indicate the two types of concern are unrelated, and multivariate regression analyses show that few variables impact both types of concern. Consistent with prior research, young people and racial/ethnic minorities reported greater concerns about police violence than did older adults and Whites, yet neither age nor race/ethnicity impacted concerns about violence against the police. Perceived mistreatment by the police was the only variable which impacted perceptions of police violence and violence against the police in a consistent and cogent manner.Originality/valueThis study is the first to examine public perceptions of the police as both the agents and victims of violence. The results indicate public perceptions of the police are more complex than was previously believed.

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“…Police. Youths' attitudes towards police develop based on a number of factors, including personal experiences, passive observations, conversations with friends and family, and the media (Bridenball & Jesilow, 2008;Gallagher et al, 2001;Granot et al, 2021;Piccirillo et al, 2021;Warren, 2011). However, youth who have been arrested have personal police experience to draw from.…”

Section: Juvenile Justice Systemmentioning

confidence: 99%

Attitudes toward legal actors among dual system youth

Cavanagh

LaBerge

Cauffman

2021

Journal of Social Issues

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The role of contact with the child welfare system (CWS) in legal socialization is not well understood. This is particularly true of youth who have contact with both the juvenile justice system and the CWS, known as dual system (DS) youth. Furthermore, much of the legal socialization research excludes Latinx youth, for whom legal socialization may function differently. Is CWS contact, compared to-and in addition to-juvenile justice system contact, associated with Latinx youths' attitudes toward police and judges? The present study addresses this research question among a sample of 417 Latinx youth who had been arrested for the first time, 74 of whom were DS youth. Results indicated that DS youth perceive police as less biased, and both police and judges as more legitimate, than their juvenile justice system-only counterparts. CWS contact was not associated with perceptions of situational procedural justice for police or judges, suggesting that CWS contact colors general attitudes toward legal actors' bias and legitimacy, but not specific interactions with legal actors. The results suggest that CWS contact, above and beyond juvenile justice system contact, has a nuanced impact on children's legal socialization.

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Cited by 76 publications

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Crime victimization distress, neighbourhood social cohesion and perceived police effectiveness

Crime victimization distress, neighbourhood social cohesion and perceived police effectiveness

Public perceptions of the police and violence: an examination of both sides of the issue

Attitudes toward legal actors among dual system youth

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