Date of Award
Spring 5-29-2019
Document Type
Thesis
Degree Name
Master of Arts (MA)
Department/Program
Criminal Justice
Language
English
First Advisor or Mentor
Frank Pezzella
Second Reader
Hung-En Sung
Abstract
Broken Windows policing through the utilization of Stop, Question, and Frisk has been widely used by the New York City Police Department (NYPD) since the 1990s, as guaranteed by landmark Supreme Court Case Terry v. Ohio (1968). As a result, hundreds of minority citizens have been the victim of routine stops for minor offenses through this aggressive police tactic. This study utilizes 2017 NYPD Stop, Question, and Frisk Data to determine whether broken windows policing, through stop, question, and frisk, operates as a mode of racial control for African Americans in New York City. Through the utilization of chi-square analyses, binary logistic regression, and multi nominal logistic regression, statistically significant associations were found for several variables based on race.
Recommended Citation
Evans, Justice D., "Stop, Question, and Frisk: A Tool of Racial Control in New York City" (2019). CUNY Academic Works.
https://academicworks.cuny.edu/jj_etds/105
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Criminology Commons, Criminology and Criminal Justice Commons, Social Control, Law, Crime, and Deviance Commons