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A street corner education: Stop and search, trust, and gendered norms among adolescent males
Police stop and search activity has consistently been shown to affect the opinions, attitudes and behaviours of those subject to it. For young people in particular this can be an important moment in which they learn about and orientate themselves towards law, authority, and the exercise of power. Dr...
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2022
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Acceso en línea: | https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC9794084/ https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/36574423 http://dx.doi.org/10.1371/journal.pone.0279505 |
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author | Bradford, Ben Pósch, Krisztián Jackson, Jonathan Dawson, Paul |
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description | Police stop and search activity has consistently been shown to affect the opinions, attitudes and behaviours of those subject to it. For young people in particular this can be an important moment in which they learn about and orientate themselves towards law, authority, and the exercise of power. Drawing on work into procedural justice and legal socialisation, we build on the premise that stop and search has, in practice, more to do with the imposition of authority on the streets than the accurate targeting tool of crime-control activity. We consider the link between experiences of stop and search, trust in the police, exposure to or involvement in gangs and violence, and the extent to which male adolescents hold abusive and controlling gendered beliefs regarding sexuality and intimate partner relations. Using data from a survey of Londoners aged 14–16, we find support for the notion that adolescent males’ procedurally unjust stop and search experiences are associated with lower levels of trust in the police, higher levels of involvement in and exposure to gang-related activities, and believing it is acceptable to harass females in public space and control intimate partners. We conclude with the idea that unfair stop/searches can signal that it is ‘OK’ to abuse power. |
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spelling | pubmed-97940842022-12-28 A street corner education: Stop and search, trust, and gendered norms among adolescent males Bradford, Ben Pósch, Krisztián Jackson, Jonathan Dawson, Paul PLoS One Research Article Police stop and search activity has consistently been shown to affect the opinions, attitudes and behaviours of those subject to it. For young people in particular this can be an important moment in which they learn about and orientate themselves towards law, authority, and the exercise of power. Drawing on work into procedural justice and legal socialisation, we build on the premise that stop and search has, in practice, more to do with the imposition of authority on the streets than the accurate targeting tool of crime-control activity. We consider the link between experiences of stop and search, trust in the police, exposure to or involvement in gangs and violence, and the extent to which male adolescents hold abusive and controlling gendered beliefs regarding sexuality and intimate partner relations. Using data from a survey of Londoners aged 14–16, we find support for the notion that adolescent males’ procedurally unjust stop and search experiences are associated with lower levels of trust in the police, higher levels of involvement in and exposure to gang-related activities, and believing it is acceptable to harass females in public space and control intimate partners. We conclude with the idea that unfair stop/searches can signal that it is ‘OK’ to abuse power. Public Library of Science 2022-12-27 /pmc/articles/PMC9794084/ /pubmed/36574423 http://dx.doi.org/10.1371/journal.pone.0279505 Text en © 2022 Bradford et al https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/This is an open access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution License (https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/) , which permits unrestricted use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original author and source are credited. |
spellingShingle | Research Article Bradford, Ben Pósch, Krisztián Jackson, Jonathan Dawson, Paul A street corner education: Stop and search, trust, and gendered norms among adolescent males |
title | A street corner education: Stop and search, trust, and gendered norms among adolescent males |
title_full | A street corner education: Stop and search, trust, and gendered norms among adolescent males |
title_fullStr | A street corner education: Stop and search, trust, and gendered norms among adolescent males |
title_full_unstemmed | A street corner education: Stop and search, trust, and gendered norms among adolescent males |
title_short | A street corner education: Stop and search, trust, and gendered norms among adolescent males |
title_sort | street corner education: stop and search, trust, and gendered norms among adolescent males |
topic | Research Article |
url | https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC9794084/ https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/36574423 http://dx.doi.org/10.1371/journal.pone.0279505 |
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