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Crime, Arrests, Legitimacy or Race? Militarization of American Police from 1990 to 2007.

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Title/Author:	Crime, Arrests, Legitimacy or Race? Militarization of American Police from 1990 to 2007./
Author:	Baumgart, Zach.
Description:	1 online resource (419 pages)
Notes:	Source: Dissertation Abstracts International, Volume: 78-05(E), Section: A.
Subject:	Sociology. -
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ISBN:	9781369442540

Crime, Arrests, Legitimacy or Race? Militarization of American Police from 1990 to 2007.
Baumgart, Zach.

Crime, Arrests, Legitimacy or Race? Militarization of American Police from 1990 to 2007. - 1 online resource (419 pages)

Source: Dissertation Abstracts International, Volume: 78-05(E), Section: A.

Thesis (Ph.D.)--The University of Wisconsin - Madison, 2016.

Includes bibliographical references

In this thesis, I analyzed police militarization between 1990 and 2007. Using publicly available data, I constructed a panel dataset of over 7,000 police agencies, and over 16,000 agency-time observations. The unit of analysis was militarization, especially those factors that related to differences in militarization between departments, and in factors that affected growth over time.

Electronic reproduction.
Ann Arbor, Mich. :
ProQuest,
2018

Mode of access: World Wide Web

ISBN: 9781369442540Subjects--Topical Terms:

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Sociology.
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520 $a In this thesis, I analyzed police militarization between 1990 and 2007. Using publicly available data, I constructed a panel dataset of over 7,000 police agencies, and over 16,000 agency-time observations. The unit of analysis was militarization, especially those factors that related to differences in militarization between departments, and in factors that affected growth over time.
520 $a The primary contribution of this thesis is to understand how the upward trend in militarization over this period of growth looked across varied contexts. In so doing, I drew from theory to conceptualize militarization itself, and to understand the factors that did and did not contribute to meaningful differences in the construct. While explanations here were necessarily descriptive (given the survey-driven design of the datasets), those descriptions provide evidence of potential causes for militarization, and their associated impact on a variety of other factors. Together, this thesis provides the first empirical test of American police militarization that treats the process for what it is: complex and filled with nuance.
520 $a The first chapter sets the stage. It is primarily methodological: I developed the militarization measure I used throughout the rest of the thesis. In so doing, I unpacked militarization as a concept, including its history and current trends. After performing several validity checks of the measure, I provided some basic descriptive analyses, including a set of potential control and predictor effects. The second chapter is primarily concerned with explanations of militarization, especially based on crime and organizational characteristics. Crime-based explanations, though generally unsupported by criminological evidence, provide a test of popular pro-militarization explanations. Organizational explanations provide a more practical view, suggesting that militarization is a shift in what it means to be a police officer. Finally, in the last chapter, I primarily focused on race. Given that police militarization coincided with a federal shift toward punitive criminal justice policy, I assessed the degree to which militarization was associated with similar consequences of that shift. Specifically, I assessed the degree to which police militarization was associated with racial inequality, both in the agency itself, and with the external environment within which police were located.
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