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Pamela lrving Jackson ## Rhode lsland College The research reported in this article tests the hypothesis that the relationship between the public fiscal commitment to policing and rninority group size is not the same in small citiesas it is in large cities. The results of a comparison of al1 cities in the United States that were greater than 50.000 in population in 1970 with those that were between 25.000-50.000 at that time indicates that the impact of the relative size of the black population on social control efforts differs in both strength and form in the two subpopulations. In large cities percent black has a significant impact on the level of resources devoted to policing. and a curvilinear impact on capital policing expenditures even after other determinants of policing expenditures have been controlled. In srnall cities the relationship is insignificanf or weak. These results suggest that blacks are perceived as a greater threat lo the social order in large cities than they are in small cities. I t is possible that the anonymity and lower level of informal social control characteristic of large cities increases both fear of crime and the degree of threat represented by the

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Author

Pamela Irving Jackson

Publisher

John Wiley and Sons; Informa UK (Taylor & Francis); Taylor and Francis Ltd.; Informa UK Limited (ISSN 0038-0253)

Published

1986

Language

EN

Field

Social Sciences