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The Usual Suspects: Prior Criminal Record and the Probability of Arrest.
- Source :
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Police Quarterly . Mar2021, Vol. 24 Issue 1, p31-54. 24p. - Publication Year :
- 2021
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Abstract
- A unique dataset is analyzed to investigate the effect of a criminal suspect's prior criminal record on the probability of arrest. Multivariate logistic regression results show that a criminal suspect with a prior criminal record is approximately 29 times more likely than a suspect without a criminal record to be arrested by police. While findings also reveal that Black suspects and Black suspects with a prior criminal record do not have an enhanced proclivity of arrest, Black suspects with a prior criminal record who target White victims are almost three times more apt to be arrested. When juxtaposed with the finding in the baseline model of a substantive relationship between a suspect's race and the likelihood of arrest absent the control for prior criminal record, our results suggest that any correlation evinced between a criminal suspect's race and the likelihood of arrest without controlling for the suspect's prior criminal history may be spurious due to omitted variable bias. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]
- Subjects :
- *CRIMINAL records
*CRIMINAL behavior
*LOGISTIC regression analysis
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Details
- Language :
- English
- ISSN :
- 10986111
- Volume :
- 24
- Issue :
- 1
- Database :
- Academic Search Index
- Journal :
- Police Quarterly
- Publication Type :
- Academic Journal
- Accession number :
- 148604651
- Full Text :
- https://doi.org/10.1177/1098611120937304