Suspect Citizens - What 20 Million Traffic Stops Tell Us About Policing and Race

The costs of racially disparate patterns of police behavior are high, but the crime fighting benefits are low.

List of contents

1. Suspect citizens: fighting the war on crime with traffic stops; 2. A legislative mandate to address concerns about racial profiling; 3. Who gets stopped?; 4. What happens after a stop?; 5. Finding contraband; 6. Search and arrest patterns by officer and agency; 7. Profiling Hispanics, profiling blacks; 8. Black political power and disparities in policing; 9. Reforms that reduce alienation and enhance community safety; 10. Conclusions.

About the author

Frank R. Baumgartner holds the Richard J. Richardson Distinguished Professorship at the University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill. He is a leading scholar of public policy and has written extensively on agenda-setting, policy-making, and lobbying. His work on criminal justice includes two previous books on the death penalty.Derek A. Epp is Assistant Professor of Government at the University of Texas at Austin. In The Structure of Policy Change (forthcoming), he explains how the capacity of governmental institutions to process information affects public policy. He also studies economic inequality with a particular focus on understanding how rising inequality affects government agendas.Kelsey Shoub is a graduate student in the Department of Government at the University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill. Her research focuses on using publicly available big data to answer questions about what influences policy change, policy outputs, and the context within which they take place.

Summary

Addresses race and policing with a new and comprehensive database, documenting troubling findings about racial differences and providing practical recommendations for improving community-police relationships. Will appeal to academics, students, policymakers, police, lawyers, civil rights and social justice activists, and interested citizens.

Product details

• Authors: Frank R Baumgartner, Frank R. Baumgartner, Frank R. (University of North Carolin Baumgartner, Frank R. (University of North Carolina Baumgartner, Baumgartner Frank R., Derek A Epp, Derek A. Epp, Derek A. (University of Texas Epp, Kelsey Shoub, Kelsey (University of North Carolina Shoub
• Publisher: Cambridge University Press ELT
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Released: 31.07.2018
• EAN: 9781108429313
• ISBN: 978-1-108-42931-3
• No. of pages: 292
• Subjects: Social sciences, law, business > Political science > Political science and political education; POLITICAL SCIENCE / American Government / General, Social discrimination & inequality, Police & security services, Ethnic minorities & multicultural studies, Police and security services, Law & society, Criminology: legal aspects