Policing Helplessness: Psychological Mechanisms Connecting Police Contact to Political Demobilization and Distrust

• In Event: Policing in America

Brief Overview

This paper identifies learned helplessness as a psychological mechanism connecting police stops to political demobilization and distrust. Original survey research is used to demonstrate this connection.

Authors

• Christina E. Farhart, Carleton College

• Aaron Rosenthal, Simmons University