Economic Inequality and the Spatial Distribution of Stop and Search: evidence from London
We analyse the spatial concentration of stop and search (S&S) practices. Previous work argues that the persistent reliance on S&S, despite weak to null deterrent effects on crime, results from a social order maintenance motivation on the part of the police. Expanding previous studies that fo...
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| Tipo de documento: | Electrónico Artículo |
| Lenguaje: | Inglés |
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2023
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The British journal of criminology
Año: 2023, Volumen: 63, Número: 4, Páginas: 828-847 |
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| Rights Information: | CC BY 4.0 |
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| Sumario: | We analyse the spatial concentration of stop and search (S&S) practices. Previous work argues that the persistent reliance on S&S, despite weak to null deterrent effects on crime, results from a social order maintenance motivation on the part of the police. Expanding previous studies that focused on who tends to be stopped and searched by police officers, we focus on where S&S concentrates and investigate the role of economic inequality. We use data from London in 2019 and demonstrate that a novel measure of salient, spatially granular economic inequality is positively associated with S&S incidence at a small spatial scale, even when controlling for crime rates and other important variables. Police officers more frequently stop and search members of the public in places where the well-off and the economically precarious co-exist. Implications for understanding S&S as a tool that distinguishes between citizens, between those to protect and potential criminals, are discussed. |
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| Notas: | Literaturverzeichnis: Seite 845-847 |
| Descripción Física: | Karten, Diagramme |
| ISSN: | 1464-3529 |
| DOI: | 10.1093/bjc/azac069 |