RT Article
T1 Police, politics and participation: the effect of police exposure on political participation in the United Kingdom
JF The British journal of criminology
VO 58
IS 5
SP 1232
OP 1253
A1 Laniyonu, Ayobami
LA English
YR 2018
UL https://krimdok.uni-tuebingen.de/Record/1580224342
AB 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.
K1 Anti-social behaviour
K1 Stop and search
K1 Voter turnout
K1 Policy feedback effects
DO 10.1093/bjc/azy003