Deterrent Effects of the Police on Crime
A Replication and Theoretical Extension
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 4883764 |
|---|---|
| Authors | Robert J Sampson (0000-0003-4259-8146), Jacqueline Cohen |
| Year | 1988 |
| Volume | 22 |
| Issue | 1 |
| Pages | 163-189 |
| Publication date | 1988-01-01 |
| Peer Reviewed | Yes |
| Open Access | Yes |
| Type | ARTICLE |
| Venue | Law & Society Review (JOURNAL) |
| Journal identifiers | ISSN: 0023-9216 • E-ISSN: 1540-5893 |
| Publisher | Cambridge University Press (CUP) (PUBLISHER) |
| DOI | 10.2307/3053565 |
| OpenAlex | W2325888315 |
| Language | EN |
| Citations received | 60 |
| References cited | 28 |
This study replicates and then extends Wilson and Boland's (1978) theory of the deterrent effect of policing on crime rates in American cities by linking it to recent thinking on control of urban disorder and incivilities (Sherman, 1986; Skogan and Maxfield, 1981). The theory posits that police departments with a legalistic style tend to generate policies of proactive patrol (e.g., high traffic citation rate and frequent stops of suspicious or disorderly persons), which in turn may decrease crime rates either (1) indirectly, by increasing the probability of arrest, or (2) directly, by decreasing the crime rate through a deterrent effect regarding perceived threat of social control. We test both these propositions in an examination of robbery rates in 171 American cities in 1980. Overall, the major results suggest that proactive policing has direct inverse effects on aggregate robbery rates, independent of known determinants of crime (e.g., poverty, inequality, region, and family disruption). Moreover, when we demographically disaggregate the robbery rate the direct inverse effect of aggressive policing on robbery is largest for adult offenders and black offenders. We examine the reasons for these findings and discuss their theoretical and policy implications
Criminology · Extension (predicate logic · Political science · Replication (statistics · Sociology · Statistics · Computer Science · Crime Patterns and Interventions · Crime, Illicit Activities, and Governance · Criminal Justice and Corrections Analysis · Law · Mathematics · Psychology
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Police use of force
Criminal Deterrence
The Impact of Psychological Science on Policing in the United States
Deterring the Drunk Driver
Impact of increased police presence in a non-criminogenic area
Race, Neighbourhood Context and Perceptions of Injustice by the Police in Cincinnati
Defiance and Motivational Postures
What Can Police Do to Reduce Crime, Disorder, and Fear
Just enough police presence
Experience and Expression
The Role of Police Officer Race/Ethnicity on Crime Rates in Immigrant Communities
The Politics of Inclusion
Capital and Punishment
Fear of crime on the rail networks
The Law and Social Science of Stop and Frisk
Impact of Swift and Certain Sanctions
The Police, Disorder, and the Homeless
Translating Causal Claims
Broken Windows or Window Dressing? Citizens'(in) Ability to Tell the Difference Between Disorder and Crime
Overview of
The Impact of Drug Market Pulling Levers Policing on Neighborhood Violence
Reducing Firearms Violence Through Directed Police Patrol
The Impact of Drug Market Pulling Levers Policing on Neighborhood Violence
Depolicing in historically marginalised communities
What came first
The Illness Associations of Police Violence
Ambient population and surveillance cameras
The effect of direct and vicarious police contact on the educational achievement of urban teens
Moving Beyond the Individual
The effect of three-strikes legislation on serious crime in California
Broken windows, crumpled fenders, and crime
Proactive policing embedded in two models
Discouraging window breakers
Causes of police behavior revisited
Determining the correlates of police victimization
Revisiting Broken Windows Theory
Not by accident
Red Lights and Handcuffs
The Influence of Community Characteristics on Police Performance in a Deeply Divided Society
What Can Police Do to Reduce Crime, Disorder, and Fear
Policing Crime and Disorder Hot Spots
Compromised Police Legitimacy as a Predictor of Violent Crime in Structurally Disadvantaged Communities
Policing, Drugs, and the Homicide Decline in New York City in the 1990s
Proactive Policing and Robbery Rates Across U.S. Cities
The Philadelphia Foot Patrol Experiment
Problem‐oriented Policing in Violent Crime Places
The Material of Policing
Structural Variations in Juvenile Court Processing
New Directions in Social Disorganization Theory
The adoption of culturally contentious innovations
Does proactive policing make a difference in crime? An implementation of problem‐solving policing in Israel
La racionalidad económica y el altruismo dirigido del crimen organizado en la era del Covid-19
Deterring Delinquents
Law and (Norms of) Order in the Inner City
Crime e estratégias de policiamento em espaços urbanos
The Determinants of Deadly Force
Interracial Conflict and Interracial Homicide
On the consequences of ignoring unobserved heterogeneity when estimating macro-level models of crime
Coping with crime
Crime and public policy
Methods in quantitative criminology
Varieties of Police Behavior
The deterrent effect of capital punishment
The Social Ecology of Crime
Perceptual Research on General Deterrence
The Effects of the Police On Crime
Policing Communities
Why Are Communities Important in Understanding Crime
Crime in Cities
Fear of Crime and Neighborhood Change
Research in Criminal Deterrence
Criticism and Influence Analysis in Regression
The Organizational Context of Legal Control
The Relationship of Police and Crime
Analyzing Urban Crime Data
Crimes, Crime Rates, Arrests, and Arrest Ratios
Are Uniform Crime Reports a Valid Indicator of the Index Crimes? An Affirmative Answer With Minor Qualifications
Variations in Sex-Race-Age-Specific Incidence Rates of Offending
Effects of Socioeconomic Context on Official Reaction to Juvenile Delinquency
The Police, Crime, and Economic Theory
Police Control of Juveniles
The Cost of Inequality
Race and Involvement in Common Law Personal Crimes
The Specific Deterrent Effects of Arrest for Domestic Assault
The Effects of the Police on Crime
Social Structure and Crime Control Among Macrosocial Units
| Unique citing works | 60 |
|---|---|
| Citations per year | 1,82 |
| Citation span | 1993 - 2024 (32) |
| Citation velocity | recent |
| Highly cited | No |
| Citation types | Neutral: 60 |