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ABSTRACT
The current study will add to the literature on public attitudes toward law enforcement by assessing the individual and contextual-level predictors of one of the key concepts in police legitimacy literature: trust. Examining individuals nested within zip code results showed a significant equalizing effect of structural resource deprivation on both White and Black respondents' perceptions of trust in the police. Additionally, results found respondents who perceived racial profiling to be widespread had a universally decreased likelihood of having trust in the police, and these disparities were exacerbated as structural resource deprivation increased.
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1. The percentage of the population between the ages of 16 and 19 who are not in school, not employed, and not in the military reported in the 2000 Census of Housing and Population.
2. Reliability estimates for all models exceed 0.45, indicating considerable variation between neighborhoods in the probability that respondents have trust in the police in their area.
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Kyle A. Burgason
Kyle A. Burgason is an Assistant Professor of Criminal Justice Studies in the Department of Sociology at Iowa State University. His research interests include: policing, ethics in criminal justice, race and crime, criminological theory, structural and cultural context of violent crime and victimization, capital punishment, and optimal foraging theory's applications to crime. His recent work appears in the Journal of Criminal Justice, Deviant Behavior, Journal of Interpersonal Violence, the American Journal of Criminal Justice, Homicide Studies, Criminal Justice Studies, Western Criminology Review, Journal of Forensic Investigation, and Youth Violence and Juvenile Justice.