ORCID ID
https://drive.google.com/uc?export=download&id=1r8b-uHi_X7KOQPcp6jdhMFB5hBtE5K-F
Document Type
Article
Publication Date
2015
Publication Title
International Criminal Justice Review
Abstract
Substantial theoretical and empirical attention has been directed at isolating the structural conditions that lead to shifts in the size of metropolitan police departments in the United States. These studies rely heavily on ethnic and racial threat explanations, which imply that larger police forces will be employed in jurisdictions with larger minority populations. It is entirely unclear, though, whether such accounts are applicable outside the United States. This study fills this void in the literature by assessing the extent to which ethnic threat hypotheses can explain variations in police strength using data on 40 large Canadian cities from 1996 to 2006. Results show that the size of the minority population significantly influences the size of metropolitan police departments.
DOI
10.1177/1057567715586833
Version
Postprint
Publisher's Statement
Reprinted by permission of SAGE Publications; http://dx.doi.org/10.1177/1057567715586833
Recommended Citation
Carmichael, Jason T. and Kent, Stephanie L., "Structural Determinants of Municipal Police Force Size in Large Cities across Canada: Assessing the applicability of ethnic threat theories in the Canadian context" (2015). Criminology, Anthropology, & Sociology Faculty Publications. 2.
https://engagedscholarship.csuohio.edu/clcas_facpub/2
Volume
25
Issue
3
