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List of contents
Part I. The View from the Streets: 1. Policing as though the public really matters: a call for outcome-based policing Cameron McLay; 2. Policing in St Louis: 'I feel like a runaway slave sometimes' Thomas Harvey and Janae Staicer; Part II. Do We Need Public Police?: 3. Why we need police Justin McCrary and Deepak Premkumar; 4. Police abolitionist discourse? Why it's been missing (and why it matters) Jonathan Simon and Eduardo Bautista Duron; 5. The police as civic neighbors Eric J. Miller; 6. Pretext and justification: republicanism, policing, and race Ekow Yankah; 7. The private policing paradox Elizabeth Joh; Part III. The Law of Policing: 8. Justifying police practices: the example of arrests Rachel Harmon; 9. Police interrogation and suspect confessions Richard A. Leo; 10. How fear shapes policing in the US David A. Harris; 11. The futile Fourth Amendment: understanding police excessive force doctrine through an empirical assessment of Graham v. Connor Osagie K. Obasogie and Zachary Newman; 12. The problematic prosecution of an Asian American police officer: notes from a participant in People v Peter Liang Gabriel J. Chin; Part IV. Police Force and Police Violence: 13. Confrontational proactive policing: benefits, costs, and disparate racial impacts Charles Manski and Daniel S. Nagin; 14. Race, police, and the production of capital homicides Jeff Fagan and Amanda Geller; 15. What drives variation in killings by urban police in the United States - two empirical puzzles Franklin Zimring; Part V. Discrimination: 16. Race, pedestrian checks, and the Fourth Amendment Devon W. Carbado; 17. In the shadows: policing immigration in the criminal justice system and its impact on racial disparities and identity Yolanda Vázquez; 18. Policing 'radicalization' Amna Akbar; 19. Police and the criminalization of LGBT people Ilan H. Meyer, Naomi G. Goldberg, Amira Hasenbush, Christy Mallory and Lara Stemple; 20. Police sexual violence Tamara Rice Lave; 21. Policing the mentally ill in Los Angeles on the frontlines of transinstitutionalization Natalie Pifer; Part VI. Technology: 22. The pitfalls of police technology: a minority report Kami Chavis; 23. Citizenship talk Bennett Capers; 24. Predictive policing theory Andrew Guthrie Ferguson; 25. Big data surveillance: the case of policing Sarah Brayne; Part VII. Reform: 26. Unions and police reform Stephen Rushin; 27. Procedural justice and policing: four new directions Rebecca Hollander Blumoff; 28. Moving toward an American police-community reconciliation framework David Kennedy and Jonathan Ben-Menachem.
About the author
Tamara Rice Lave is a Professor of Law at the University of Miami. She is also a Criminal Justice Studies Fellow at the University of California, Berkeley. Before getting her Ph.D., Professor Lave was a deputy public defender in San Diego for ten years where she handled a variety of cases.Eric J. Miller is a Professor and Leo J. O'Brien Fellow at Loyola Law School in Los Angeles. He is currently the Chair-Elect of the Association of American Law Schools (AALS) Section on Criminal Justice, and the co-founder of the Policing Los Angeles Forum. Miller is a nationally recognized expert on the police and policing who has provided testimony to the United States Congress House Judiciary Committee and the United States Sentencing Commission.
Summary
This volume provides a comprehensive collection of essays on police and policing, written by leading experts in political theory, sociology, criminology, economics, law, public health, and critical theory. This accessible, interdisciplinary work will be valuable for anyone interested in understanding the present and future of policing in the US.
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'This sophisticated collection brings together a rich group of thinkers and viewpoints. Offering an elegant mix of policy expertise, community perspectives, social science, legal theory, and philosophy, it is at once critical and appreciative of the complex role played by policing throughout our democracy. The book is strongly interdisciplinary - it melds scholarship on social vulnerability and race with inquiries into such wide-ranging topics as police unions, technology, big data, and violence. Scholars, students, and experts alike will learn much from this provocative volume.' Alexandra Natapoff, University of California and author of Punishment Without Crime: How Our Massive Misdemeanor System Traps the Innocent and Makes America More Unequal
