TY  - JOUR
PY  - 2021//
TI  - 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?
JO  - Journal of criminal justice
A1  - Zimmerman, Gregory M.
A1  - Fridel, Emma E.
A1  - Sheppard, Keller G.
A1  - Lawshe, Nathaniel L.
SP  - e101749
EP  - e101749
VL  - 72
IS  - 
N2  - 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>
LA  - en
SN  - 0047-2352
UR  - http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.jcrimjus.2020.101749
ID  - ref1
ER  -