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Social Structure and Crime Control Among Macrosocial Units

NCJ Number
95565
Journal
American Journal of Sociology Volume: 90 Issue: 2 Dated: (September 1984) Pages: 383-395
Author(s)
A E Liska; M B Chamlin
Date Published
1984
Length
13 pages
Annotation
Recent research, drawing on the conflict perspective, has examined the effect of the racial/economic composition of macrosocial units on the capacity for crime control (police size). This paper extends this work to actual crime control (arrest rates).
Abstract
The results show that there is considerable variation in arrest rates between cities and that racial/economic compositon substantially affects them, independently of reported crime rates. The effects are specified by type of arrest (property and personal) and race of offender (white and non-white). Two tables and 18 references are supplied. (Author abstract modified)

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