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Assessing benefits, costs, and disparate racial impacts of confrontational proactive policing

Year: 2017

Type: article

Abstract: Significance Criminal justice policy is susceptible to controversy. Crime and policies to prevent it are inextricably tied to divergent beliefs among citizens about right and wrong, the protection of person and property, and the legacy of ill treatment of racial minorities by agents of the criminal justice system. This paper studies a model that helps to address one aspect of crime prevention policy, the use of confrontational proactive policing methods. These methods may have social benefits in crime reduction but costs in intrusion on the rights and privacy of innocent persons. The paper provides a structure for weighing these benefits and costs dispassionately, aiming to honor and achieve the sometime conflicting objectives of crime control policy in a democratic society.

Source: Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences

DOI: 10.1073/pnas.1707215114

Authors: Charles F. Manski, Daniel S. Nagin

Institutions: Northwestern University, Carnegie Mellon University

Language: English

Topic: Policing Practices and Perceptions

Subfield: Political Science and International Relations

Field: Social Sciences

Domain: Social Sciences

SDGs: Peace, justice, and strong institutions, Reduced inequalities

Open Access status: bronze

OpenAlex ID: W2737744923