A street corner education: Stop and search, trust, and gendered norms among adolescent males.

ABSTRACT: Police stop and search activity has consistently been shown to affect the opinions, attitudes and behaviours of those subject to it. For young people in particular this can be an important moment in which they learn about and orientate themselves towards law, authority, and the exercise of power. Drawing on work into procedural justice and legal socialisation, we build on the premise that stop and search has, in practice, more to do with the imposition of authority on the streets than the accurate targeting tool of crime-control activity. We consider the link between experiences of stop and search, trust in the police, exposure to or involvement in gangs and violence, and the extent to which male adolescents hold abusive and controlling gendered beliefs regarding sexuality and intimate par

SUBMITTER: Bradford B 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC9794084 | biostudies-literature | 2022

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature