Impact of Extralegal and Community Factors on Police Officers' Decision to Book Arrests for Minor Offenses.

ABSTRACT: Booked arrests carry greater harms than non-booked arrests. When booked following an arrest, individuals are confined without guilt and an official criminal record forms that carries several negative consequences. Even with these greater harms, police decision to book arrests is understudied with little research on what factors influence this decision. This study utilizes official booking data to determine if suspect extralegal and community factors affect officers' decisions to book arrests across minor offenses. The study uses data from the Chandler Police Department in Arizona and the American Community Survey from 2013 to 2019. These data include suspect legal/extralegal, officer, time, and block-group level factors. Using a cross-classified modeling approach, we examine factors associ

SUBMITTER: Crum JD 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC9017075 | biostudies-literature | 2023

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature