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Police in the 'hood :Drug laws, police discretion, and arresting African-Americans (Maryland)

Record Type:	Electronic resources : Monograph/item
Title/Author:	Police in the 'hood :
Reminder of title:	Drug laws, police discretion, and arresting African-Americans (Maryland)
Author:	Moskos, Peter Constantine.
Description:	245 p.
Notes:	Adviser: Orlando Patterson.
Notes:	Source: Dissertation Abstracts International, Volume: 65-05, Section: A, page: 1973.
Contained By:	Dissertation Abstracts International65-05A.
Subject:	Sociology, Criminology and Penology.
Online resource:	http://pqdd.sinica.edu.tw/twdaoapp/servlet/advanced?query=3131941
ISBN:	0496791818

Police in the 'hood :Drug laws, police discretion, and arresting African-Americans (Maryland)
Moskos, Peter Constantine.

Police in the 'hood :Drug laws, police discretion, and arresting African-Americans (Maryland) [electronic resource] - 245 p.

Adviser: Orlando Patterson.

Thesis (Ph.D.)--Harvard University, 2004.

Drug laws have created a new policing paradigm in America's ghettos. This research examines the first stage of minority imprisonment: police arresting a drug suspect in an urban African-American ghetto. While suspects' race is recognized as significant inasmuch as it correlates with violence, drugs, and varieties of police behavior, the data demonstrate that the primary determinants for arrest decision are variations within police culture. Drug laws have racially biased outcomes even when enforced by unbiased and race-blind police.

ISBN: 0496791818Subjects--Topical Terms:

212412
Sociology, Criminology and Penology.

Police in the 'hood :Drug laws, police discretion, and arresting African-Americans (Maryland)
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520 # $a The variables linking drug prohibition and an arrest-based police culture are: public drug dealing, drug-related violence, the criminalization and dehumanization of drug addicts, a limitless supply of arrestable criminal offenders, and a 911 system of rapid response unable to prevent crime. In high-drug areas, officer-based variables such as work style, desire for court overtime pay, and morale affect arrest-decision far more than any suspect-based variables. Qualitative and quantitative data were gathered while the author served as a uniformed Baltimore City police officer.
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