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Crime minimization and racial bias: what can we learn from police search data?

Crime minimization and racial bias: what can we learn from police search data?
Crime minimization and racial bias: what can we learn from police search data?
Is variation by motorist race in the success rate of searches informative about racial bias if police are motivated by crime minimisation rather than success-rate maximisation? We show that the basic idea of extracting information from 'hit rates' may still be valid, provided one can verify some simple restrictions on the joint distribution of criminality by race. We also extend these results to the case where the police minimise the rate of unpunished crime.
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368-84
Dominitz, J.
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Knowles, J.A.
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Dominitz, J.
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Knowles, J.A.
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Dominitz, J. and Knowles, J.A. (2006) Crime minimization and racial bias: what can we learn from police search data? Economic Journal, 116 (515), 368-84. (doi:10.1111/j.1468-0297.2006.01127.x).

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Is variation by motorist race in the success rate of searches informative about racial bias if police are motivated by crime minimisation rather than success-rate maximisation? We show that the basic idea of extracting information from 'hit rates' may still be valid, provided one can verify some simple restrictions on the joint distribution of criminality by race. We also extend these results to the case where the police minimise the rate of unpunished crime.

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Published date: 2006
Organisations: Economics

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Local EPrints ID: 55066
URI: http://eprints.soton.ac.uk/id/eprint/55066
DOI: doi:10.1111/j.1468-0297.2006.01127.x
ISSN: 0013-0133
PURE UUID: d0ff4d8e-493c-4f91-8702-01878f61f737

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Date deposited: 31 Jul 2008
Last modified: 15 Mar 2024 10:52

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Author: J. Dominitz
Author: J.A. Knowles

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