The Influence of Places on Police Decision Pathways: From Call for Service to Arrest

摘要: Research on factors that influence police discretion usually focuses individual or situational characteristics (e.g., an officer citizen's age, race gender, the seriousness of incident). In contrast, this study examines whether places decisions to “upgrade” “downgrade” their response incidents. Earlier research is expanded in three ways: first, rather than examining isolated decision within series make up incident, a chronological “decision‐making pathway” derived and analyzed. Second, multiple categories racial ethnic composition decision‐making pathways are examined. Third, variety incidents at small geographic compared across entire jurisdiction. Findings indicate that, even when controlling for level violence, with greater proportion Black wealthy residents significantly influen...