RT Article
T1 Race/Ethnicity, Area and Willingness to Call Police
JF American journal of criminal justice
VO 49
IS 1
SP 121
OP 144
A1 Wu, Yuning
A2 Miethe, Terance D. 1953-
LA English
YR 2024
UL https://krimdok.uni-tuebingen.de/Record/1880914700
AB Using survey data from a large national sample of U.S. residents, this study examines how and why individuals’ race/ethnicity and perceived area crime risk influence their willingness to call police. Structural equation modeling tests a combined parallel-sequential multiple-mediator model that ties the normative (e.g., police legitimacy) and instrumental (e.g., concern about crime) perspectives of calling police to the profound issues of race, area, and policing. A wide range of individual sociodemographic traits and experience with crime and the police were also controlled in the analysis. The results reveal a clear distinction between Blacks and Whites in their likelihood of seeking police assistance, but no difference between Hispanics and Whites in these intentions. While the normative model highlighting police legitimacy best explains the racial gap in calling police, the instrumental model accentuating concern about crime better accounts for the area influences on willingness to call police.
K1 Police Legitimacy
K1 Procedural Justice
K1 Calling police
K1 Area
K1 Race/ethnicity
DO 10.1007/s12103-022-09691-8