Suspicion, Suspicion: Police Perceptions of Juveniles as the “Symbolic Assailant”
Jerome Skolnick’s (2011) "symbolic assailant" is a result of police attributing particular demeanor, gestures, language, and a style of dress to people they believed were most likely to commit violent crimes. The challenge became when police applied these characteristics to specific groups...
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NSUWorks
2018
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