Racial Profiling? A Multivariate Analysis of Police Traffic Stop Data

By Michael R. Smith, Matthew Petrocelli. 2001

219 citations recorded by the source corpus.

Subfields: Health, Political Science and International Relations, Sociology and Political Science

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In Health

1. William Terrill
2. Eugene A. Paoline III
3. Jared S. Rosenberger
4. Greg Ridgeway
5. V. Callanan
6. P. Bolger

In Political Science and International Relations

1. William Terrill
2. Eugene A. Paoline III
3. Kenneth J Novak
4. Jared S. Rosenberger
5. Greg Ridgeway
6. V. Callanan
7. P. Bolger
8. M. Hulst

In Sociology and Political Science

1. William Terrill
2. Eugene A. Paoline III
3. Jared S. Rosenberger
4. Kenneth J Novak
5. Greg Ridgeway
6. George O. Mohler
7. P. Jeffrey Brantingham
8. Matthew B. Robinson

Citations in the corpus

• A Geographic Approach to Racial Profiling (2009, background): “However, other studies have not found evidence of racial profiling (Novak, 2004; Smith and Petrocelli, 2001).”
• The impact of police culture on traffic stop searches: an analysis of attitudes and behavior (2005, background): “Most recently, a considerable amount of research energy has been exerted in using traffic stops encounters to study racial profiling (Lundman and Kaufman, 2003; Novak, 2004; Rojek et al., 2004; Petrocelli et al., 2003; Smith and Petrocelli, 2001).”
• Racial Threat, Suspicion, and Police Behavior (2012, background): “Note, however, that others have found race to be unrelated to likelihood of conducting a search (Paoline & Terrill, 2005; M. R. Smith & Petrocelli, 2001).”
• Does Predictive Policing Lead to Biased Arrests? Results From a Randomized Controlled Trial (2018, background): “Research has demonstrated that a racial bias exists in the business of policing including the racial profiling of vehicles ( Harris 1999; Smith and Petrocelli 2001; Meehan and Ponder 2002; Novak 2004; Farrell and McDevitt 2006; Ridgeway 2006; Warren et al. 2006; Epp, Maynard-Moody, and…”
• Race and Perceptions of Police: Experimental Results on the Impact of Procedural (In)Justice (2017, unknown): “…studies, and surveys of drivers have found that minority drivers are disproportionately subject to traffic stops (e.g. Alpert, Dunham, & Smith, 2007; Epp, Maynard-Moody, & Haider-Markel, 2014; Novak, 2004; Smith & Petrocelli, 2001; Warren, Tomaskovic-Devey, Smith, Zingraff, & Mason, 2006).”
• Media and public perceptions of the police: examining the impact of race and personal experience (2011, background): “Current studies document numerous cases of racial profiling (Smith and Petrocelli 2001, Weitzer and Tuch 2002, Antonovics and Knight 2009) and other police practices that target poor ethnic communities including neighbourhood sweeps and injunctions.”
• Assessing the Effect of Race Bias in Post-traffic Stop Outcomes Using Propensity Scores (2006, background): “Smith and Petrocelli (2001) note substantial differences between stops involving black drivers by time of the stop as well as features of the officer making the stop, which they suggest could proxy for neighborhood.”