Journal ArticleRSF · September 1, 2024
Administrative decisions mediate whether the millions who turn to the state for social services annually can access the assistance they need. We introduce the concept of intersectional burdens-which describes how a person's social location (including race, ...
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Book · 2024
In The Policing Machine, Tony Cheng reveals the stages of that resistance, offering a close look at the deep engagement strategies that NYPD precincts have developed with only subsets of the community in order to counter any truly ... ...
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Journal ArticleCriminology · August 1, 2023
We show how both the Chicago Police Department and the New York Police Department sought to settle uncertainty about their propriety and purpose during a period when abrupt transformations destabilized urban order and called the police mandate into questio ...
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Journal ArticleAmerican Journal of Sociology · May 1, 2022
Many policing practices that scholars have identified as deeply flawed are precisely those demanded in police-community meetings. How do initiatives intended for police reform become dominated by demands for more policing? I analyze 1.5 years of ethnograph ...
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Journal ArticleCriminology and Public Policy · February 1, 2022
Research summary: This study examines a model for achieving democratic governance over police departments: regulatory intermediaries, where non-state actors are empowered with regulatory authority over public institutions. Drawing on a decade of transcript ...
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Journal ArticleCriminology · August 1, 2021
Every day, police departments across America are executing stops, summonses, arrests, and increasingly, tweeting. Although scholarship has focused on how social media democratizes news production and information sharing for activist movements, it has yet t ...
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Journal ArticleSocial Problems · February 1, 2020
Since its establishment in 1993, the Department of Justice's Office of Community-Oriented Policing Services has invested $14 billion into local police departments' efforts to improve community relations. Yet in 2015, the public's confidence in police reach ...
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Journal ArticleSocial Problems · February 1, 2020
Upon initial publication, the abstract incorrectly stated that the research comprised six years of data when, in fact, the research comprised seven years of data. This has been corrected in the abstract. ...
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Journal ArticleCity and Community · December 1, 2018
The United States has experienced an unprecedented decline in violent crime over the last two decades. Throughout this decline, however, violent crime continued to concentrate in socially and economically disadvantaged urban neighborhoods. Using detailed h ...
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Journal ArticlePolitics and Society · March 1, 2018
How does civic disengagement develop? This article examines the theory that the dissatisfaction and disengagement citizens develop toward one government agency can extend to an alternative agency. Leveraging police precinct-level data on 311 calls and crim ...
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Journal ArticleCity and Community · March 1, 2018
Many contemporary violence prevention programs direct concentrated law enforcement, social service, or educational attention toward individuals engaged in violence, and yet, this population is often avoiding this precise attention. Drawing on 18 months of ...
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Journal ArticleLaw and Society Review · March 1, 2017
Who do violence preventers target to achieve violence prevention? This fundamental question of selection is typically associated with law enforcement, yet gang labeling is critical in another context: nonprofit violence prevention. Eighteen months of field ...
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