Reforming the Police
Racial Differences in Public Support for Change
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 9680363 |
|---|---|
| Authors | R Weitzer (0000-0001-8641-4906, George Washington University, corresponding author), Steven A Tuch |
| Year | 2004 |
| Volume | 42 |
| Issue | 2 |
| Pages | 391-416 |
| Publication date | 2004-05-01 |
| Peer Reviewed | Yes |
| Open Access | Yes |
| Type | ARTICLE |
| Venue | Criminology (JOURNAL) |
| Journal identifiers | ISSN: 0011-1384 • E-ISSN: 1745-9125 |
| Publisher | Wiley (PUBLISHER • GB) |
| DOI | 10.1111/j.1745-9125.2004.tb00524.x |
| OpenAlex | W2072798542 |
| Language | EN |
| Citations received | 52 |
| References cited | 27 |
While the literature has extensively documented popular discontent with various types of police misconduct, little is known about popular support for corrective measures. Such information, however, would be valuable for public policy and has the potential to enhance public confidence in the police. This article, using data from a recent national survey, reports public attitudes toward several specific reforms in policing. Findings indicate, first, that race is a predictor. Blacks and Hispanics are the most supportive of reform. Second, support for reform is strongly affected by the perceived frequency of police misconduct in one's city and neighborhood and by exposure to media reports of police misconduct. Respondents who believe that police corruption, unwarranted stops, and verbal and physical abuse of citizens are common are more likely to favor reforms. The same is true for those who are frequently exposed to news media coverage of incidents of police misconduct. The findings are consistent with the group‐position theory of race relations
Criminology · Language change · Misconduct · Political science · Race (biology · Sociology · Crime Patterns and Interventions · Gun Ownership and Violence Research · Law · Policing Practices and Perceptions · Psychology · Social Psychology
Media coverage of police misconduct and attitudes toward police
Race, Class or Neighborhood Context
Determinants of Public Satisfaction with the Police
How Do People Come to Judge What Is “Reasonable”? Effects of Legal and Sociological Systems on Human Psychology
Pre-Arrest Perceptions of George Zimmerman’s Guilt in the Fatal Trayvon Martin Shooting
Public Opinion Toward Diverse Types of Police Reform Post-2020
Protest Policing, Normative Alignment, and Riot Gear
Law enforcement response to mental health crises
Trends in police research
Students and the police in Ghana
Trends in Police Research
Race and Perceptions of Police Misconduct
Racially Biased Policing
Perceptions of the Police
Delinquency and the Black Middle Class
Race/Ethnicity and Perceptions of Police Bias
Racial Resentment, Conservative Ideology, and White Ignorance
Strategic Responses to the Police Among Inner-City Youth
Political Ideology and American Attitudes Toward Police Reform
Concurrent pressures of mass protests
Hollywood’s Social Construction of Innocence
Defund the police
The Interaction of Race and Gender as a Significant Driver of Racial Arrest Disparities for African American Men
To Protect and to Serve?”
Where concerned citizens perceive police as more responsive to troublesome teen groups
What’s race got to do with it? Factors influencing urban officers’ off-duty participation in Black Lives Matter protesting
Legal Disagreement
Perceived Police Corruption and Fear of Crime in Mexico
Do Body-Worn Cameras Change Law Enforcement Arrest Behavior? A National Study of Local Police Departments
Examining macro-level impacts on procedural justice and police legitimacy
On the Robustness of Black Americans’ Support for the Police
Defund vs. refund
Racial attitudes and public perceptions of police reform
Notes on a (sex crime) scandal
College Students' Evaluation of Police Performance
The Role of Perceptions of the Police in Informal Social Control
Two Worlds Far Apart
How Citizens Assess Just Punishment for Police Misconduct
Race and policing in the 2016 presidential election
Cynical Streets
Police Response to Crime
Racial populism, partisan spillover, and Americans’ quest for citizen education policy control
Protesting the police
Representative Bureaucracy and Attitudes Toward Automated Decision Making
Perceptions of the local danger posed by crime
We're Still Dying Quicker Than We Can Effect Change
University students’ accounts of police use of force
Citizen Interest in Collaborative Crime Prevention
Citizenship, minorities and the police
Race, Ethnicity, and Perceived Minority Police Presence
Does Race Matter
Race, Justice, Policing, and the 2016 American Presidential Election
Community Policing Chicago Style
Perceptions of the police
Global and specific attitudes toward the police
Citizens' perceptions of police misconduct
Explaining juveniles' attitudes toward the police
The “Mainstreaming” of America
Perceptions of abusive police practices in a U.S.-Mexico border community
What's the meaning of this? Viewers' plural sense-making of TV news
White, black, or blue cops? Race and citizen assessments of police officers
Incidents of police misconduct and public opinion
Hispanic perception of police performance
Perceptions of Racial Profiling
Determinants of Attitudes Toward City Police
Race Prejudice as a Sense of Group Position
Racial Attitudes in America
Trends
Police Brutality and Public Perceptions of Racial Discrimination
The Advent of Internet Surveys for Political Research
Public Perceptions of Race and Crime
Perceptions of Racial Group Competition
Victimization, Types of Citizen-Police Contacts, and Attitudes Toward the Police
Racialized Policing
Just Des(s)erts? The Racial Polarization of Perceptions of Criminal Injustice
Legal Cynicism and (Subcultural?) Tolerance of Deviance
Race and Perceptions of Police Misconduct
| Unique citing works | 52 |
|---|---|
| Citations per year | 2,36 |
| Citation span | 2004 - 2026 (23) |
| Citation velocity | current |
| Highly cited | No |
| Citation types | Neutral: 52 |