Description
Book Synopsis"An urgent look at the relationship between the politics of guns, race, and policing in America today"--
Trade Review"Co-Winner of the Distinguished Book Award, Sociology of Law Section of the American Sociological Association"
"No one who reads this [book] will doubt that the Second Amendment has particularly deadly dimensions in minority communities." * Kirkus Reviews *
"[E]xamines how the National Rifle Association became a driving influence behind American policing for over a century, and emerges with the idea that policing America has not overcome its racially charged beginning."
---RJ Young, New York Times Book Review"This book provides a warning to those police scholars who tend to blindly embrace community policing as the panacea of police reform and an answer to racially biased policing."
---David E. Barlow, Ethnic and Racial Studies"Chilling and insightful. . . .Carlson succinctly argues that attitudes about race, most specifically attitudes about African Americans, overwhelm rational debates about law gun use, gun ownership, and the 2nd Amendment itself, specifically within the law enforcement community. Importantly, Carlson brings together an academically rigorous analysis with clear and engaging writing accessible to a wide-ranging audience. For those willing to engage in good-faith debates about gun policy, Carlson’s work provides helpful insights and perspectives."
---Staci L. Beavers, Law and Politics Book Review
