RT Article
T1 Race and police killings: examining the links between racial threat and police shootings of Black Americans
JF Journal of ethnicity in criminal justice
VO 18
IS 4
SP 315
OP 340
A1 Gray, Caroline 1930-
A2 Parker, Karen F.
LA English
YR 2020
UL https://krimdok.uni-tuebingen.de/Record/1747363847
AB This study empirically examines recent race-specific police shootings and offers a theoretical test of racial threat arguments. Our analysis includes all aspects of threat – economic, political, and racial composition – when examining state-level counts of police shootings of Black citizens spanning 2014–2016. For comparison, police shootings of Whites were also analyzed. Significant findings for racial composition are reported across both races, while political predictors are significant in the Black-specific model when controlling for other structural features. Our results also highlight the need to disaggregate police shootings by race. With partial support for racial threat arguments, we offer directions for future research.
K1 Racial threat
K1 Race
K1 Police shootings
K1 Deadly Force
DO 10.1080/15377938.2020.1774952