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4 - Evidence

Silencing Citizens in Baltimore

from Part II - How Criminal Groups Prevent Cooperation

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  04 September 2024

Andrew Cesare Miller
Affiliation:
United States Naval Academy, Maryland
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This chapter tests cycles of silence theory in Baltimore to evaluate its applicability in a Global North context where the state and the police are well resourced. It provides background on how Baltimore residents become exposed to violence by drug crews and details the results from an original survey of residents in the city’s violence- affected communities. Violence heightens perceived retaliation risk, and the heightened risk perception in turn pushes residents who support cooperation to keep that support private. As result, residents share less information than they otherwise would in absence of this norm suppression. The chapter’s final section explains that the underlying cooperation support exists, because the drug crews have largely failed to gain legitimacy in eyes of residents.

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Silencing Citizens
How Criminal Groups Create Vacuums of Justice
, pp. 127 - 151
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Print publication year: 2024

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  • Evidence
  • Andrew Cesare Miller, United States Naval Academy, Maryland
  • Book: Silencing Citizens
  • Online publication: 04 September 2024
  • Chapter DOI: https://doi.org/10.1017/9781009354455.005
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  • Evidence
  • Andrew Cesare Miller, United States Naval Academy, Maryland
  • Book: Silencing Citizens
  • Online publication: 04 September 2024
  • Chapter DOI: https://doi.org/10.1017/9781009354455.005
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  • Evidence
  • Andrew Cesare Miller, United States Naval Academy, Maryland
  • Book: Silencing Citizens
  • Online publication: 04 September 2024
  • Chapter DOI: https://doi.org/10.1017/9781009354455.005
Available formats
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