Geller Amanda, Fagan Jeffrey
New York University.
Columbia University.
RSF. 2019 Feb;5(1):26-49. doi: 10.7758/rsf.2019.5.1.02.
Contemporary American policing has routinized involuntary police contacts with young people through frequent, sometimes intrusive investigative stops. Personal experience with the police has the potential to corrode adolescents' relationships with law and skew law-related behaviors. We use the Fragile Families and Child Wellbeing Study to estimate how adolescents' experiences with the police shape their legal socialization. We find that both personal and vicarious police contact are associated with increased legal cynicism. Associations are present across racial groups and are not explained by teens' behaviors, school settings, or family backgrounds. Legal cynicism is amplified in teens reporting intrusive contact but diminished among teens reporting experiences characterized by procedural justice. Our findings suggest that aggressive policing risks weakening teens' deference to law and legal authorities.
当代美国警务工作通过频繁且有时具有侵扰性的调查拦截,将与年轻人的非自愿警察接触常态化。与警察的个人经历有可能破坏青少年与法律的关系,并扭曲与法律相关的行为。我们利用脆弱家庭与儿童福利研究来估计青少年与警察的经历如何塑造他们的法律社会化过程。我们发现,亲身和间接的警察接触都与法律犬儒主义的增加有关。这种关联在各个种族群体中都存在,并且不能用青少年的行为、学校环境或家庭背景来解释。在报告有侵扰性接触的青少年中,法律犬儒主义会加剧,但在报告有程序正义特征经历的青少年中,这种情况会减少。我们的研究结果表明,激进的警务工作有可能削弱青少年对法律和法律权威的尊重。