Perceptions of Police and Violence to Resolve Conflict: Exploring the Neighborhood Context

• In Event: Procedural Justice and Police Legitimacy in Neighborhoods (I)

Abstract

The use of violence to resolve neighborhood conflict is a form of informal social control that is rarely examined in the social disorganization literature. Variations in perceptions of formal control and particularly in perceptions of police across neighborhoods are likely to influence community processes such as informal social control. In the current study we use data collected in the Australian Community Capacity Study (ACCS) Wave 3 survey to examine the types of neighborhood contexts associated with violence to resolve conflict. Specifically, we explore the link between formal social control (perceptions of police) and informal social control (violence to resolve conflict).

Authors

• Elise Sargeant, University of Queensland

• Rebecca Leigh Wickes, University of Queensland

• Kristina Murphy, Griffith University

• Lorraine Mazerolle, University of Queensland