The Student Police Unity League and Intergroup Contact Theory

The purpose of this study is to evaluate the Student Police Unity League as an effective program at fostering more positive views of the police from black citizens operating by the core tenants provided by Intergroup Contact Theory. It was expected that black students who participated in the Student Police Unity League would report higher levels of trust, legitimacy, willingness to work with the police, outcome justice, and lower level of perceived racial profiling. While the majority of the findings did not reach statistical significance at the .05 level, participation in the Student Police Unity league did lead to better views of police in terms of outcome justice and legitimacy. However, trust, profiling, and willingness to work with the police unexpectedly had inverse results.

Name thesis:degree_name

Master of Science

Level thesis:degree_level

masters

Discipline thesis:degree_discipline

Sociology

Department dc:contributor.department

Sociology

Grantor dc:publisher

Virginia Tech

Year dc:date.issued

2016

Author dc:creator

• Frazier, Joseph B.

Chair dc:contributor.committeechair

• Hawdon, James E.

Committee members dc:contributor.committeemember

• Hughes, Michael D.
• Fuller, Ted

• Interactions
• Police
• Black Communities
• Intergroup Contact Theory

Statement dc:rights

• In Copyright

Licence dc:rights.uri

• http://rightsstatements.org/vocab/InC/1.0/

Language dc:language.iso

en_US

Dc Identifier Other

etd-09122016-180608

OAI identifier oai:identifier

oai:vtechworks.lib.vt.edu:10919/78161