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Contact and Context: How Municipal Traffic Stops Shape Citizen Character
Anoll, Allison P. Epp, Derek A. Israel-Trummel, Mackenzie
Anoll, Allison P.
Epp, Derek A.
Israel-Trummel, Mackenzie
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Previous research shows that how the state conducts itself influences citizen attitudes and behaviors through direct and proximal contact; we show the actions of state agents ripple out even further. Joining bureaucratic data on a publicly observable state behavior—racial disparities in investigatory traffic stops—with survey data, this article shows that residing in a place with extreme racial disparities in traffic stops is associated with depressed confidence in the police even in the absence of more direct forms of contact. This relationship does not extend to participatory behaviors, however, in which only personal stop history and proximal contact are predictors. Racially disparate policing practices, then, may undermine law enforcement legitimacy in a community as a whole, but mobilization to change policy appears limited to individuals who more directly experience the carceral state.
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2022-10-01
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The University of Chicago Press
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https://doi.org/10.1086/719274