Citation

Liska AE, Chamlin MB. Am. J. Sociol. 1984; 90(2): 383-395.

Copyright

(Copyright © 1984, University of Chicago Press)

DOI

10.1086/228084

PMID

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Abstract

Recent research, drawing on the conflict perspective, has examined the effect of the racial/economic composition of macrosocial units on the capacity for crime control (arrest rates). The results show that there is considerable variation in arrest rates between cities and that racial/economic composition substantially affects them, independently of reported crime rates. The effects are specified by type of arrest (property and personal) and race of offender (white and non-white).