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Police discrimination and police distrust among ethnic minority adolescents in Germany
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Abstract In light of ongoing debates about racially motivated police violence, this paper examines two separate but interrelated phenomena: instances of police discrimination and mistrust in police and the judicial system among ethnic minorities in Germany. Analyses are carried out based on waves 1, 3, and 5... view more
In light of ongoing debates about racially motivated police violence, this paper examines two separate but interrelated phenomena: instances of police discrimination and mistrust in police and the judicial system among ethnic minorities in Germany. Analyses are carried out based on waves 1, 3, and 5 of the CILS4EU-DE data collected among 14 to 20 year-old respondents in Germany. The focus of the paper lies on young men from the Middle East, as well as Northern and Sub-Saharan Africa, who - as our study demonstrates - tend to disproportionally more often report discrimination experiences and particularly low levels of trust in police and courts compared to other ethnic minorities and the majority populations in Germany, and partially also in comparison to their female counterparts. We also show that more frequent experiences of police discrimination are associated with greater distrust of the police and partially also with courts among young men from the Middle East, North and Sub-Saharan Africa. Female adolescents from similar backgrounds are also more distrustful of the police, but this is not explained by their own experiences of police discrimination. - Supplementary Material: https://www.frontiersin.org/articles/10.3389/fsoc.2024.1231774/full#SM1... view less
Keywords
Federal Republic of Germany; ethnic group; migration background; adolescent; police; judiciary; discrimination; perception; confidence; integration
Classification
Social Problems
Migration, Sociology of Migration
Free Keywords
children of immigrants; trust in police and courts; Children of Immigrants Longitudinal Survey in four European Countries - CILS4EU, wave 1 and 3 (full version, GESIS Data Archive, ZA5353; CILS4EU-DE, wave 5 (full version, data file version 6.0.0, GESIS Data Archive, ZA6655)
Document language
English
Publication Year
2024
Journal
Frontiers in Sociology, 9 (2024)
DOI
https://doi.org/10.3389/fsoc.2024.1231774
ISSN
2297-7775
Status
Published Version; peer reviewed
Licence
Creative Commons - Attribution 4.0
FundingFunded by the German Research Foundation (DFG) - Project number KO 3601/8-1-3 and KA 1602/8-1-3