TY - JOUR
T1 - Homegrown Views? Exploring Immigrant and Racialized People’s Perceptions of Police in Canada
AU - Jung, Maria
AU - Greene, Carolyn
AU - Sprott, Jane B.
N1 - Funding Information:
This research was supported by funds to the Canadian Research Data Centre Network (CRDCN) from the Social Science and Humanities Research Council (SSHRC), the Canadian Institute for Health Research (CIHR), the Canadian Foundation for Innovation (CFI), and Statistics Canada. Although the research and analysis are based on data from Statistics Canada, the opinions expressed do not represent the views of Statistics Canada or the Canadian Research Data Centre Network (CRDCN). The preparation of this paper was supported with funds from grants provided by the Office of the Dean of Arts, Ryerson University, which were held by the first author, and from a Social Sciences and Humanities Research Council of Canada (SSHRC) grant held by the third author.
Publisher Copyright:
© 2021 Canadian Journal of Criminology and Criminal Justice / Revue canadienne de criminologie et de justice pénale,.
PY - 2021/1
Y1 - 2021/1
N2 - When compared to studies examining racialized people’s perceptions of police in North Ameri-ca, studies of immigrants’ views of police are quite rare and they often conflate the views of immigrants with those of racialized people. Yet, we know racialized people are not necessarily immigrants and immigrants are not necessarily racialized. Research that distinguishes immigrant status from racialized status has found important differences based on immigrant vs. native-born status, country of origin, and length of settlement. This research builds on these findings by specifically considering the relative influence of universal and immigrant-specific factors that may shape within-group views of police. Using the 2014 General Social Survey, variations in views of police among South Asians – Canada’s largest racialized group – are explored by whether they were born in Canada, immigrated recently, or had long settled within Canada. Our findings suggest that traditional measures – or the universal factors – used to assess perceptions of police may not explain immigrants’ views in the same way that they do for native-born individuals, and that immigrants’ views of police may be shaped in ways that are, as of yet, unaccounted for in the literature.
AB - When compared to studies examining racialized people’s perceptions of police in North Ameri-ca, studies of immigrants’ views of police are quite rare and they often conflate the views of immigrants with those of racialized people. Yet, we know racialized people are not necessarily immigrants and immigrants are not necessarily racialized. Research that distinguishes immigrant status from racialized status has found important differences based on immigrant vs. native-born status, country of origin, and length of settlement. This research builds on these findings by specifically considering the relative influence of universal and immigrant-specific factors that may shape within-group views of police. Using the 2014 General Social Survey, variations in views of police among South Asians – Canada’s largest racialized group – are explored by whether they were born in Canada, immigrated recently, or had long settled within Canada. Our findings suggest that traditional measures – or the universal factors – used to assess perceptions of police may not explain immigrants’ views in the same way that they do for native-born individuals, and that immigrants’ views of police may be shaped in ways that are, as of yet, unaccounted for in the literature.
KW - ethnicity
KW - immigration
KW - perceptions of police
KW - police
KW - race
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U2 - 10.3138/CJCCJ.2020-0023
DO - 10.3138/CJCCJ.2020-0023
M3 - Journal Article
AN - SCOPUS:85138531416
SN - 1707-7753
VL - 63
SP - 1
EP - 22
JO - Canadian Journal of Criminology and Criminal Justice
JF - Canadian Journal of Criminology and Criminal Justice
IS - 1
ER -