@article{ref1,
title="Enforcing race: a neighborhood-level explanation of Black-White differences in drug arrests",
journal="Crime and delinquency",
year="2019",
author="Gaston, Shytierra",
volume="65",
number="4",
pages="499-526",
abstract="This research investigates the source of Black-White differences in drug arrests by conducting a neighborhood-level test of the differential police scrutiny and racially discriminatory policing hypotheses. The study examines drug arrests made across 78 neighborhoods in St. Louis between 2009 and 2013. <br><br>RESULTS from the negative binomial regression analyses lend the greatest support to the racially discriminatory policing perspective. Neighborhood racial composition significantly shapes drug law enforcement practices, net of neighborhood-level violent and property crime rates, drug-related calls for service by citizens, and socioeconomic disadvantage. Specifically, findings suggest that officers engage in &quot;out-of-place&quot; racial profiling in drug law enforcement, as they tend to target suspects whose race is incongruent with the neighborhood racial context. Implications of the study findings are discussed.<p /> <p>Language: en</p>",
language="en",
issn="0011-1287",
doi="10.1177/0011128718798566",
url="http://dx.doi.org/10.1177/0011128718798566"
}