RT Article
T1 “Oh hell no, we don't talk to police”: insights on the lack of cooperation in police investigations of urban gun violence
JF Criminology & public policy
VO 18
IS 3
SP 623
OP 648
A1 Brunson, Rod K.
A1 Wade, Brian A.
LA English
YR 2019
UL https://krimdok.uni-tuebingen.de/Record/1681043521
AB We conducted face‐to‐face interviews with 50 young Black men, residents of high‐crime neighborhoods in Brooklyn and the Bronx, individuals who had considerable knowledge about illegal gun markets and the resulting bloodshed. Our findings confirm that distressed milieus reliably fail to produce cooperative witnesses as a result of the cumulative impact of anti‐snitching edicts, fear of retaliation, legal cynicism, and high‐risk victims’ normative views toward self‐help.
K1 Cearance rates
K1 Crime reporting
K1 Police–community relations
K1 Underpolicing
K1 Urban violence
K1 Victimization
DO 10.1111/1745-9133.12448