The origins of black Hostility to the Police
The origins of black Hostility to the Police
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黑人敌视警察的根源
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1991
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David J. Smith
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David J. Smith
英国的调查显示，非洲裔加勒比人对警察的敌意程度远远高于白色人或亚洲人。本文探讨了这种敌意的根源和意义。它认为，诱发条件是移民控制的历史被认为是种族主义的，持续的种族攻击和骚扰，黑人失业率高，以及大麻冲突。证据表明，黑色的敌意是位于个人经验，敌对的遭遇会导致人们对警察的敌意，以及黑色的敌意是有关的警察和黑人之间的对抗性平衡的遭遇。然而，这些调查结果也表明，个人经验本身不能解释非洲裔加勒比人和白色人之间的观点差异。本文认为，黑人对警察的敌意类似于一种政治力量，也是社会文化群体对身份认同的一部分。
British surveys show a much higher level of hostility to the police among Afro‐Caribbeans than among white people or Asians. This paper discusses the origins and significance of such hostility. It argues that the predisposing conditions are a history of immigration control justifiably regarded as racist, continuing racial attacks and harassment, high black unemployment, and conflict over cannabis. Evidence is presented which shows that black hostility is located in personal experience, that adversarial encounters cause people to be hostile to the police, and that black hostility is related to an adversarial balance of encounters between the police and black people. However, these findings also show that individual experience on its own cannot explain the difference in views between Afro‐Caribbean and white people. The paper argues that black hostility to the police is akin to a political force, and part of the assertion of identity by a socio‐cultural group.