RT Article
T1 Immigrant perceptions of the police: Theoretical explanations
JF International journal of police science & management
VO 19
IS 3
SP 171
OP 186
A1 Wu, Yuning
A2 Sun, Ivan Y.
A2 Cao, Liqun
LA English
YR 2017
UL https://krimdok.uni-tuebingen.de/Record/1764706161
AB A notable limitation among existing studies on immigrant perceptions of the police is the lack of a guiding theoretical framework in data analyses. This article delineates the theoretical perspectives that may explain group differential views on the police between immigrants and non-immigrants, and among immigrant groups. In particular, we formulate a new conceptual framework for classifying these theories. Theories are first organized by the two sources of influence that immigrant attitudes toward the police are subject to: universal factors that tend to shape all residents’ attitudes toward the police, and group-specific factors that apply only to foreign-born individuals. Then within both universal and immigrant-specific factors, there are four subcategories of demographic, experiential, structural, and attitudinal variables. Recommendations for future research are included.
K1 Immigration
K1 Perceptions of the police
K1 Race/ethnicity
K1 Theory
DO 10.1177/1461355717714000