ABSTRACT

In this final empirical chapter we test the full model of cooperation on our special population. Young males from various ethnic minority groups are more likely than the general population to be ‘police property’, to have a more adversarial and tense relationship with police officers, and to see the police as a source of social regulation. In Chapter 14 we examined whether the model generalises across gender, age and ethnic groups. But we did not focus on one particular group that combines categories of these three different variables: young males who belong to ethnic minority groups. In this chapter we test the model on 1,000 such individuals.