In this episode we speak with Professors Lee Slocum and Andres Rengifo about their work on police interactions, race/ethnicity, and willingness to report crimes to law enforcement.
Lee is a Professor in the Department of Criminology and Criminal Justice at the University of Missouri St. Louis. Her recent work is focused on interactions between the police and the public, and the consequences of these encounters. Among other journals, Lee has published in Criminology, Law & Social Inquiry, Journal of Research in Crime and Delinquency, and Journal of Quantitative Criminology.
Andres is a Professor in the School of Criminal Justice at Rutgers University-Newark. His research focuses on police-community relations and the discourse and practice of punishment within and beyond courtrooms. Andres has been published in journals such as Criminology, Law & Social Inquiry, Latin American Law Review, Journal of Research in Crime and Delinquency, and Journal of Quantitative Criminology.
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Get in touch with Lee and Andres:
Lee: https://www.umsl.edu/ccj/faculty/slocum.html // slocuml AT umsl.edu
Andres: https://rscj.newark.rutgers.edu/people/faculty/rengifo-andres/ // arengifo AT scj.rutgers.edu
This is the article co-authored by Andres and Lee that was discussed in this episode of The Crim Academy:
Rengifo, A. F., & Slocum, L. A. (2020). The Identity Prism: How Racial Identification Frames Perceptions of Police Contact, Legitimacy, and Effectiveness. Law & Social Inquiry, 45(3), 590-617.
To access the article, please click here.