Racial Threat, Social (Dis)organization, and the Ecology of Police: Towards a Macro-level Understanding of Police Use-of-force in Communities of Color

TY - JOUR

T1 - Racial Threat, Social (Dis)organization, and the Ecology of Police: Towards a Macro-level Understanding of Police Use-of-force in Communities of Color

AU - Lautenschlager, Rachel

AU - Omori, Marisa

N1 - In this paper, we examine use-of-force incidents as neighborhood processes to understand how rates and levels of use-of-force vary across New York City. We suggest that there are two distinct outcomes of force by the police: number of use-of-force incidents and level of force.

PY - 2019/9/19

Y1 - 2019/9/19

KW - Police

KW - use-of-force

KW - neighborhoods

KW - criminological theory

UR - https://www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10.1080/07418825.2018.1480792

U2 - 10.1080/07418825.2018.1480792

DO - 10.1080/07418825.2018.1480792

M3 - Article

VL - 36

JO - Justice Quarterly

JF - Justice Quarterly

ER -