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- Title
Communities and the enforcement of lower level offenses.
- Authors
Chauhan, Preeti; Mulligan, Kerry
- Abstract
The intensive enforcement of lower level offenses and the concomitant increase in contact between law enforcement and community members has received significant public scrutiny in recent years. The authors' argument that calls for service provide a mechanism through which "the community can compel police attention and response", provides an implicit call to future research to elaborate the complex individual and community level factors driving calls for service. After accounting for crime, lower level arrest rates, and demographic and socioeconomic indicators of beats in her model, she found that reporting seeing police presence was related to greater police legitimacy. Furthermore, trust in the police or the criminal justice system is a function police engagement in the community, how police treat individuals, and whether they report experiences of biased policing.
- Subjects
CRIME; MENTAL health services; CRIMINAL justice policy; CRIMINAL justice system; COMMUNITIES
- Publication
Journal of Community Psychology, 2020, Vol 48, Issue 1, p6
- ISSN
0090-4392
- Publication type
Article
- DOI
10.1002/jcop.22300