RT Article
T1 Racial Disparities in the Enforcement of COVID-19 Public Health Violations
JF Crime & delinquency
VO 71
IS 2
SP 495
OP 521
A1 Leal, Wanda
A2 Gloyd, Elizabeth L.
A2 Piquero, Alex R. 1970-
A2 Piquero, Nicole Leeper
LA English
YR 2025
UL https://krimdok.uni-tuebingen.de/Record/1913564533
AB To curb the spread of the novel coronavirus, most cities and states implemented COVID-19 public health restrictions that became enforceable offenses. Unfortunately, concerns about unequitable enforcement arose among minority and impoverished communities. The current study uses official data from San Antonio, Texas to investigate the relationship between zip code racial and ethnic composition and income on the enforcement of COVID-19 public health violations. Over 28,000 enforcement activities from March 2020 to March 2021 were analyzed using random effects logistic regression. Results indicate that enforcement activities in zip codes with above average percent Black and above average percent Hispanic were more likely to receive citations, even though citations were issued in less than one percent of all enforcement activities.
K1 Racial Disparities
K1 pandemic policing
K1 Disproportionate minority contact
K1 public health violations
K1 Covid-19
DO 10.1177/00111287231151870