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Book SynopsisIncludes essays that provide the reader with a comprehensive, even-handed sense of the theoretical underpinnings, methodological challenges, and research necessary to understand the problems associated with racial and ethnic profiling and police bias.
Trade ReviewThis timely and comprehensive volume sheds badly-needed light on the complex interaction between police and communities of color. Few issues rank higher on the nation's justice reform agenda. Get it right, and we enhance police legitimacy and reduce crime; get it wrong, and we create inner city tinderboxes. This formidable compendium of scholarship will help us get it right. -- Jeremy Travis,President, John Jay College of Criminal Justice
This timely volume brings together the leading scholars on the topic of race, ethnicity and policing in one collection. The selections provide a solid, evidence based treatment of the key criminal justice issue of our time. -- Scott H. Decker,co-author of Confronting Gangs: Crime and Community
Table of ContentsIntroduction Overview 1 A Sketch of the Policeman's Working Personality 2 Driving While Black 3 The Stories, the Statistics, and the Law 4 Legitimacy and Cooperation 5 Race and Policing in Different Ecological Contexts 6 Racially Biased Policing 7 Methods for Assessing Racially Biased Policing 8 Using Geographic Information Systems to Study Race, Crime, and Policing 9 Beyond Stop Rates 10 State of the Science in Racial Profi ling Research 11 Driving While Black 12 Citizens' Demeanor, Race, and Traffic Stops 13 Street Stops and Broken Windows Revisited 14 Community Characteristics and Police Search Rates 15 Blind Justice: Police Shootings in Memphis 16 Race, Bias, and Police Use of the TASER 17 Space, Place, and Immigration 18 Revisiting the Role of Latinos and Immigrants in Police Research 19 New Avenues for Profi ling and Bias Research 20 Preventing Racially Biased Policing through Internal and External Controls 21 Democratic Policing 22 Moving Beyond Profiling: The Virtues of RandomizationAbout the ContributorsIndex
