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49 J. Res. Crime & Delinquency 3 (2012)

handle is hein.journals/jrcd49 and id is 1 raw text is: Article journal of Research in Crime and Delinquency 49(I) 3-30 The Conditional KTheAuthor(s)2012 Reprints and permission: Effects of Race and sagepub.com/journalsPermissions.nav DOI: 10.1 1177/0022427810393020 Politics on Social http://jrcd.sagepub.com Control: Black OGE Violent Crime Arrests in Large Cities, 1970 to 1990 Thomas D. Stucky' Abstract Numerous studies of the determinants of formal social control of Blacks focus on racial threat arguments, which contain implicit or explicit political elements. Using insights from research on politics and social control more generally, this article argues that the relationship between variation in the racial composition of a city and social control of minorities will be conditional on characteristics of the local political system. Hypotheses are tested using pooled cross-sectional time-series data on 100 large U.S. cities in 1 970, i980, and i990. Contrary to expectations, Black violent crime arrest rates are curvilinearly negatively associated with larger percentages of Black residents. As predicted, the relationship between the percentage of Black residents and Black violent crime arrest rates is conditional on city political system charac- teristics (elected mayors, district council elections, and partisan ballots), the race of the mayor, and the percentage of city council members who are Black. 'School of Public & Environmental Affairs, Indiana University, Purdue University, Indianapolis Corresponding Author: Thomas D. Stucky, Business/SPEA Room 4069, Indianapolis, IN 46202, USA Email:tstucky@iupui.edu

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