@article{ref1,
title="Contextualizing fatal police-resident encounters with a focus on Hispanic or Latin American places: does macro-level racial and ethnic composition distinguish resident fatalities by the police and police fatalities by residents?",
journal="Journal of criminal justice",
year="2021",
author="Zimmerman, Gregory M. and Fridel, Emma E. and Sheppard, Keller G. and Lawshe, Nathaniel L.",
volume="72",
number="",
pages="e101749-e101749",
abstract="Literature has documented racial and ethnic disparities in resident fatalities by the police and police fatalities by residents. Yet, there has been a lack of research on police-resident relationships within Hispanic communities. Additionally, research has rarely considered the relevance of social context for fatal police-resident encounters or examined resident and police fatalities concurrently. We use data on 7,125 fatal police-resident encounters nested within 1,739 agencies and 1,506 U.S. census-designated places from 2000-2016 to examine whether macro-level racial and ethnic composition distinguishes resident fatalities and police fatalities. <br><br>RESULTS indicated that the odds of resident fatalities relative to police fatalities were significantly higher in majority Hispanic than majority white places. Racial disparities persisted in mixed-race places with at least 20% Hispanic residents. Furthermore, disparities were only observed in highly disadvantaged places, suggesting that racial and ethnic composition and structural disadvantage must be considered concomitantly to contextualize fatal police-resident encounters.<p /> <p>Language: en</p>",
language="en",
issn="0047-2352",
doi="10.1016/j.jcrimjus.2020.101749",
url="http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.jcrimjus.2020.101749"
}