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Vomfell, Lara and Stewart, Neil (2021) Officer bias, over-patrolling, and ethnic disparities in stop and search. Nature Human Behaviour . doi:10.1038/s41562-020-01029-w (In Press)
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Official URL: https://doi.org/10.1038/s41562-020-01029-w
Abstract
Black and Asian people in the United Kingdom are more likely to be stopped and searched by police than White people. Following a panel of 36,000 searches by 1,100 police officers at a major English police force, we provide officer-specific measures of over-searching relative to two baselines: the ethnic composition of crime suspects officers interact with and the ethnic composition of the areas they patrol. We show that the vast majority of officers over-search ethnic minorities against both baselines. But we also find that the over-searching by individual officers cannot account for all of the over-representation of ethnic minorities in stop and search: over-patrolling of minority areas is also a key factor. Decomposing the overall search bias, we find that the over-representation of Asian people in stop and search is primarily accounted for by over-patrolling, while the over-representation of Black people is a combination of officer and patrol effects, with the larger contribution coming from biases of officers.
| Item Type: | Journal Article | ||||||||||||||||||
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| Subjects: | H Social Sciences > HT Communities. Classes. Races H Social Sciences > HV Social pathology. Social and public welfare J Political Science > JC Political theory |
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| Divisions: | Faculty of Social Sciences > Warwick Business School > Behavioural Science Faculty of Social Sciences > Warwick Business School |
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| Library of Congress Subject Headings (LCSH): | Minorities , Discrimination in law enforcement -- Great Britain, Police-community relations , Community policing -- Great Britain, Racial profiling in law enforcement -- Great Britain, Race discrimination -- Great Britain | ||||||||||||||||||
| Journal or Publication Title: | Nature Human Behaviour | ||||||||||||||||||
| Publisher: | Springer Nature Group | ||||||||||||||||||
| ISSN: | 2397-3374 | ||||||||||||||||||
| Official Date: | 18 January 2021 | ||||||||||||||||||
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| DOI: | 10.1038/s41562-020-01029-w | ||||||||||||||||||
| Status: | Peer Reviewed | ||||||||||||||||||
| Publication Status: | In Press | ||||||||||||||||||
| Access rights to Published version: | Restricted or Subscription Access | ||||||||||||||||||
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