Date of Award
4-2020
Document Type
Thesis
Department
Political Science
First Advisor
Patrick Donnay
Abstract
Research implies that African Americans and other minorities experience racial disparities in their encounters with police. Their white counterparts tend to not experience any racially driven disparity. Oftentimes this research does not use different characteristics while testing for racial disparity, leaving much more to be explored when researching police encounters among minorities. I will be using data from the United States Department of Justice, Bureau of Justice Statistics to test some of these characteristics. This study will test demographics regarding the citizens race and gender, as well as the nature of their police encounters. Using these demographics, we can find more in-depth answers regarding these characteristics and their likelihood to experience racial inequality. The findings from this research imply that racial disparity experienced not only by being involved in a police encounter, but also when put against other variables questioning necessary actions of the police and the legitimacy of the encounters.
Recommended Citation
King, Colby, "Are Police Actions Towards African Americans Different from Other Races?" (2020). Political Science Theses and Capstones. 40.
https://pines.bemidjistate.edu/capstone-polisci/40
Included in
African American Studies Commons, Criminal Procedure Commons, Criminology Commons, Criminology and Criminal Justice Commons, Inequality and Stratification Commons, Political Science Commons, Race and Ethnicity Commons, Social Control, Law, Crime, and Deviance Commons, Social Justice Commons
