Distributive justice and police legitimacy: the demographic and geographical distribution of police ID checks in Spain

Abstract The distribution of police activity throughout society is a key issue for distributive justice and police legitimacy. This article presents two studies on the distribution of police identification checks in Catalonia (Spain) using data provided by Mossos d’Esquadra (the Catalan Re...

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Autor principal: López-Riba,José María
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Publicado: Universidad de Talca 2021
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spelling oai:scielo:S0718-339920210001001462021-07-26Distributive justice and police legitimacy: the demographic and geographical distribution of police ID checks in SpainLópez-Riba,José María ID checks police stops policing distributive justice police legitimacy Abstract The distribution of police activity throughout society is a key issue for distributive justice and police legitimacy. This article presents two studies on the distribution of police identification checks in Catalonia (Spain) using data provided by Mossos d’Esquadra (the Catalan Regional Police). The first study explores the demographic distribution of ID checks, in other words, which groups of people are more likely to be stopped and have their identification checked by police. The second study examines the geographical distribution, that is, in which places are there greater concentrations of ID checks. The results show that with regards to demographics, men, young people and foreign people are associated with higher levels of ID checks. In addition, the geographical distribution is not primarily driven by crime rates, thus, in general, it seems that the distribution of ID checks is not as strongly related to crime as may be expected.info:eu-repo/semantics/openAccessUniversidad de Talca Política criminal v.16 n.31 20212021-07-01text/htmlhttp://www.scielo.cl/scielo.php?script=sci_arttext&pid=S0718-33992021000100146en10.4067/S0718-33992021000100146
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topic ID checks
police stops
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distributive justice
police legitimacy
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police stops
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distributive justice
police legitimacy
López-Riba,José María
Distributive justice and police legitimacy: the demographic and geographical distribution of police ID checks in Spain
description Abstract The distribution of police activity throughout society is a key issue for distributive justice and police legitimacy. This article presents two studies on the distribution of police identification checks in Catalonia (Spain) using data provided by Mossos d’Esquadra (the Catalan Regional Police). The first study explores the demographic distribution of ID checks, in other words, which groups of people are more likely to be stopped and have their identification checked by police. The second study examines the geographical distribution, that is, in which places are there greater concentrations of ID checks. The results show that with regards to demographics, men, young people and foreign people are associated with higher levels of ID checks. In addition, the geographical distribution is not primarily driven by crime rates, thus, in general, it seems that the distribution of ID checks is not as strongly related to crime as may be expected.
author López-Riba,José María
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title Distributive justice and police legitimacy: the demographic and geographical distribution of police ID checks in Spain
title_short Distributive justice and police legitimacy: the demographic and geographical distribution of police ID checks in Spain
title_full Distributive justice and police legitimacy: the demographic and geographical distribution of police ID checks in Spain
title_fullStr Distributive justice and police legitimacy: the demographic and geographical distribution of police ID checks in Spain
title_full_unstemmed Distributive justice and police legitimacy: the demographic and geographical distribution of police ID checks in Spain
title_sort distributive justice and police legitimacy: the demographic and geographical distribution of police id checks in spain
publisher Universidad de Talca
publishDate 2021
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