Visibly better? Testing the effect of ethnic appearance on citizen perceptions of the police
Visibly better? Testing the effect of ethnic appearance on citizen perceptions of the police
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DOI：
10.1080/10439463.2020.1853124
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发表时间：
2020-12-05
影响因子：
2.7
通讯作者：
Posch, Krisztian
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作者：
Davies, Tom;Bradford, Ben;Posch, Krisztian
少数族裔警官在联合王国警察部队中的代表性仍然不足。此外，一些少数族裔群体一贯报告说，与白色英国同行相比，他们对警察的信任程度较低。虽然人们一致认为，一个更具种族代表性的警察服务是一个好主意，但在英国，关于公众如何看待不同种族外表的警察，以及这与信任、信心和合法性的关系，证据有限。本文介绍了一个在线实验（n = 260）的结果，探讨种族外观如何影响警察的看法。我们的研究结果提供了一个更具有种族代表性的警察部队罕见的实证支持。首先，在受访者中，我们发现黑人警官比白色或亚洲警官更受欢迎。其次，我们发现，黑人受访者有更多的负面反应，白色官员，但几乎没有证据表明，黑人官员引起更多的负面反应，从白色或亚洲受访者。我们讨论了研究结果的理论和实践意义。
Ethnic minority officers continue to be underrepresented across UK police forces. Further, some ethnic minority groups consistently report lower levels of confidence in police compared to their White British counterparts. Although there is consensus that a more ethnically representative police service is a good idea, there is limited evidence in the UK on how the public perceives officers of different ethnic appearance, and how this relates to trust, confidence and legitimacy. This paper presents findings from an online experiment (n = 260) exploring how ethnic appearance affects perceptions of police. Our findings offer rare empirical support for a more ethnically representative police force. First, across respondents, we found that Black officers were perceived significantly more favourably than White or Asian officers. Second, we found that Black respondents had more negative responses to White officers, yet there was little evidence that Black officers elicited more negative reactions from White or Asian respondents. We discuss the theoretical and practical implications of the findings.