RT Article
T1 Crime, Cops, and Context: Risk and Risk-Management Strategies Among Black and Latino Youth in New York City
JF Criminal justice and behavior
VO 44
IS 3
SP 452
OP 471
A1 Rengifo, Andres F.
A2 Pater, Morgan
A2 Velazquez, Brenda J.
LA English
YR 2017
UL https://krimdok.uni-tuebingen.de/Record/1700576364
AB This study documents perceptions of victimization risk and other neighborhood dangers drawing on 43 in-depth interviews with youth residing in high-crime neighborhoods of New York City. More specifically, it relates lived experiences of crime and police encounters to perceptions of local threats and identifies the role of gender, race/ethnicity, and neighborhood in the configuration of these assessments. We also highlight the role of various analytical frames employed by youth as sensemaking devices to map risks and chart risk-mitigation strategies. Our findings indicate that many interview participants see the police more as a distinct environmental risk rather than a resource for risk mitigation or coping, with specific domains of risk and risk responses varying in terms of demographics, networks, and frames of interpretation.
K1 Police–community relations
K1 Risk and fear of crime
K1 Race and ethnicity
K1 Police encounters
DO 10.1177/0093854816682047