Police, politics and participation: the effect of police exposure on political participation in the United Kingdom
A growing literature in the United States suggests that exposure to the criminal justice system can reduce routinized civic and political participation. It is unclear, however, whether this demobilizing effect is unique to the United States, or is a more fundamental consequence of criminal justice e...
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| Format: | Electronic Article |
| Language: | English |
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2018
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The British journal of criminology
Year: 2018, Volume: 58, Issue: 5, Pages: 1232-1253 |
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Volltext (Resolving-System) |
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| Summary: | A growing literature in the United States suggests that exposure to the criminal justice system can reduce routinized civic and political participation. It is unclear, however, whether this demobilizing effect is unique to the United States, or is a more fundamental consequence of criminal justice exposure. Mobilizing publicly available data on the policing of anti-social behaviours, stop and search powers and political participation in London, Greater Manchester and the West Midlands, this paper explicitly tests for demobilization in the United Kingdom. Results from ordinary least squares and panel fixed-effect regressions find lower levels of political participation in communities exposed to higher rates of policing, though this effect is moderated by Black, Asian and Muslim share of the population. |
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| ISSN: | 1464-3529 |
| DOI: | 10.1093/bjc/azy003 |