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Gender, Race, and Urban Policing

The Experience of African American Youths

Rod K. Brunson

University of Alabama–Birmingham

Jody Miller

University of Missouri–St. Louis

Proactive policing strategies produce a range of harms to African Americans in poor urban communities. We know little, however, about how aggressive policing is experienced across gender by adolescents in these neighborhoods. The authors argue that important insights can be gained by examining the perspectives of African American youths and draw from in-depth interviews with youths in St. Louis, Missouri, to investigate how gender shapes interactions with the police. The comparative analysis reveals important gendered facets of African American adolescents' experiences with and expectations of law enforcement. Young men described being treated routinely as suspects regardless of their involvement in delinquency and also reported police violence. Young women typically described being stopped for curfew violations but also expressed concerns about police sexual misconduct. This study highlights the differential harms of urban policing for African American young women and men and highlights the need for systematic attention to the intersections of race and gender in research on criminal justice practices.

Key Words: policing • African Americans • gender discrimination • racial discrimination

Gender & Society, Vol. 20, No. 4, 531-552 (2006)
DOI: 10.1177/0891243206287727
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