TY - JOUR
T1 - Experience, quality of life, and neighborhood context
T2 - A hierarchical analysis of satisfaction with police
AU - Reisig, Michael
AU - Parks, Roger B.
PY - 2000/9/1
Y1 - 2000/9/1
N2 - We test three different conceptual models--"experience with police," "quality of life," and "neighborhood context' for directional accuracy and ability to explain satisfaction with the police. We also investigate whether these models help to explain the common finding that African-Americans are more dissatisfied with the police than are Caucasians. To do so, we use hierarchical linear modeling to simultaneously regress our outcome measure on clusters of citizenand neighborhood-level variables. The analysis was conducted using recently collected information from the Project on Policing Neighborhoods (POPN). The data file consisted of survey responses from 5,361 citizens residing in 58 neighborhoods located in Indianapolis, Indiana and St. Petersburg, Florida. At the citizen level, the psychologically based "quality of life" model accounts for the greatest proportion of explained variance and provides the greatest directional accuracy. Also, residents of neighborhoods characterized by concentrated disadvantage express significantly less satisfaction with the police. In addition, neighborhood context reduces the negative effect of African-American status on satisfaction with police when a sparse citizen-level specification is used; racial variation in satisfaction with police persists, however, when citizenlevel hierarchical models are specified more fully.
AB - We test three different conceptual models--"experience with police," "quality of life," and "neighborhood context' for directional accuracy and ability to explain satisfaction with the police. We also investigate whether these models help to explain the common finding that African-Americans are more dissatisfied with the police than are Caucasians. To do so, we use hierarchical linear modeling to simultaneously regress our outcome measure on clusters of citizenand neighborhood-level variables. The analysis was conducted using recently collected information from the Project on Policing Neighborhoods (POPN). The data file consisted of survey responses from 5,361 citizens residing in 58 neighborhoods located in Indianapolis, Indiana and St. Petersburg, Florida. At the citizen level, the psychologically based "quality of life" model accounts for the greatest proportion of explained variance and provides the greatest directional accuracy. Also, residents of neighborhoods characterized by concentrated disadvantage express significantly less satisfaction with the police. In addition, neighborhood context reduces the negative effect of African-American status on satisfaction with police when a sparse citizen-level specification is used; racial variation in satisfaction with police persists, however, when citizenlevel hierarchical models are specified more fully.
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U2 - 10.1080/07418820000094681
DO - 10.1080/07418820000094681
M3 - Article
AN - SCOPUS:84998098768
VL - 17
SP - 607
EP - 630
JO - Justice Quarterly
JF - Justice Quarterly
SN - 0741-8825
IS - 3
ER -