From Enforcers to Guardians - A Public Health Primer on Ending Police Violence

Aimed at anyone seeking to understand the causes and distributions of excessive police violence--and to develop interventions to end it--From Enforcers to Guardians frames excessive police violence so that it can be understood, researched, and taught about through a public health lens.

About the author

Hannah L. F. Cooper, ScD is a professor within Emory University's Rollins School of Public Health, where she holds the Rollins Chair in Substance Use Disorders Research.Mindy Thompson Fullilove, MD is a professor of urban policy and health at The New School. She is the author of Urban Alchemy: Restoring Joy in America's Sorted-Out Cities.

Summary

Aimed at anyone seeking to understand the causes and distributions of excessive police violence-and to develop interventions to end it-From Enforcers to Guardians frames excessive police violence so that it can be understood, researched, and taught about through a public health lens.

Product details

• Authors: Hannah L F Cooper, Hannah L. F. Cooper, Hannah L. F. (Associate Professor and Vice Cooper, Hannah L. F. (Associate Professor and Vice Chair Cooper, Mindy Thompson Fullilove, Mindy Thompson (Professor of Urban Policy and Health Fullilove, Mindy Thompson (The New School) Fullilove
• Publisher: Johns Hopkins University Press
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Released: 31.03.2020
• EAN: 9781421436449
• ISBN: 978-1-4214-3644-9
• No. of pages: 280
• Subjects: Natural sciences, medicine, IT, technology > Medicine > General; Social sciences, law, business > Sociology > Sociological theories; MEDICAL / Public Health, POLITICAL SCIENCE / Law Enforcement, LAW / Health, Public health & preventive medicine, Police & security services, Violence in society, SOCIAL SCIENCE / Race & Ethnic Relations, Public Health & Safety Law