Crime Minimization and Racial Bias : What Can We Learn from Police Search Data?

Are variations in the success rate of searches by race informative about racial bias if police are motivated by crime minimization rather than success-rate maximization? We show that the basic idea of extracting information from hit rates may still be valid, provided one can verify some simple restrictions on the joint distribution of criminality by race. We also extend these results to the case where the police minimize the rate of unpunished crime

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Year of publication:	[2005]
Authors:	Dominitz, Jeff
Other Persons:	Knowles, John (contributor)
Publisher:	[2005]: [S.l.] : SSRN

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Extent:	1 Online-Ressource (43 p)
Type of publication:	Book / Working Paper
Notes:	Nach Informationen von SSRN wurde die ursprüngliche Fassung des Dokuments February 18, 2005 erstellt
Other identifiers:	10.2139/ssrn.719981 [DOI]
Classification:	K42 - Illegal Behavior and the Enforcement of Law ; J15 - Economics of Minorities and Races
Source:	ECONIS - Online Catalogue of the ZBW

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