“One Question Before You Get Gone..”: Consent Search Requests as a Threat to Perceived Stop Legitimacy

Race and Justice

Volumn 2, Issue 4, 2012, Pages 250-273

  Gau, Jacinta M ^a   Brunson, Rod K ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CENTRAL FLORIDA   (United States)

^b RUTGERS UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

citizen satisfaction; criminological theories; driving while Black (DWB); race and policing; race and public opinion; racial profiling; traffic stops; treatment by the police; war on drugs; White privilege

Indexed keywords

EID: 84899625696     PISSN: None     EISSN: 21533687     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1177/2153368712459273     Document Type: Article

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