{"product_id":"from-enforcers-to-guardians-9781421436449","title":"From Enforcers to Guardians","description":"\u003cb\u003eBook Synopsis\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003eA public health approach to understanding and eliminating excessive police violence.   Excessive police violence and its disproportionate targeting of minority communities has existed in the United States since police forces first formed in the colonial period. A personal tragedy for its victims, for the people who love them, and for their broader communities, excessive police violence is also a profound violation of human and civil rights.   Most public discourse about excessive police violence focuses, understandably, on the horrors of civilian deaths. In From Enforcers to Guardians, Hannah L. F. Cooper and Mindy Thompson Fullilove approach the issue from a radically different angle: as a public health problem. By using a public health framing, this book challenges readers to recognize that the suffering created by excessive police violence extends far outside of death to include sexual, psychological, neglectful, and nonfatal physical violence as well.   Arguing that excessive polic\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eTrade Review\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003eMany public health readers of \u003ci\u003eFrom Enforcers to Guardians\u003c\/i\u003e will come away with the centrality of better data to improve transparency and accountability. This book meets a critical need that sets public health on a path to fewer lives cut short, the goal of our field. It also creates room for additional conversations to address what is still missing. That is why it is such an important book.\u003cbr\u003e—Mary T. Bassett MD, MPH, \u003ci\u003eAmerican Journal of Public Health\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003eA thoughtful, incisive public health primer on the deeply entrenched and damaging practice of police brutality.\u003cbr\u003e—\u003ci\u003eWorld Medical \u0026amp; Health Policy\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eTable of Contents\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cp\u003eList of Illustrations\u003cbr\u003ePreface\u003cbr\u003eTimeline\u003cbr\u003eChapter 1. Coming to Terms\u003cbr\u003ePart I. Distorted Policing and Its Origins\u003cbr\u003eChapter 2. Peelers and Slave Patrols\u003cbr\u003eChapter 3. Community Collapse\u003cbr\u003eChapter 4. War on Drugs\u003cbr\u003ePart II. Measuring Distorted Policing and Its Effects\u003cbr\u003eChapter 5. Public Health Investigations\u003cbr\u003eChapter 6. Pattern and Practice Investigations I: Distorted Policing in Urban Contexts 000\u003cbr\u003eChapter 7. Pattern and Practice Investigations II: Types of Violence Documented 000\u003cbr\u003ePart III. Getting to Guardianship\u003cbr\u003eChapter 8. Interventions That Have Been Tried\u003cbr\u003eChapter 9. A Magic Strategy\u003cbr\u003eConclusion. Moving Forward\u003cbr\u003eAcknowledgments\u003cbr\u003eNotes\u003cbr\u003eBibliography\u003cbr\u003eIndex\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Johns Hopkins University Press","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":49371886780759,"sku":"9781421436449","price":22.88,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0817\/1739\/5799\/files\/9781421436449.jpg?v=1730154927","url":"https:\/\/bookcurl.com\/products\/from-enforcers-to-guardians-9781421436449","provider":"Book Curl","version":"1.0","type":"link"}