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  • Race and Policing in America: Conflict and Reform

    Race and Policing in America by Weitzer, Ronald; Tuch, Steven A.;

    Conflict and Reform

    Series: Cambridge Studies in Criminology;

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    Product details:

    • Publisher Cambridge University Press
    • Date of Publication 12 June 2006

    • ISBN 9780521616911
    • Binding Paperback
    • No. of pages238 pages
    • Size 228x152x15 mm
    • Weight 355 g
    • Language English
    • Illustrations 13 tables
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    Short description:

    This book is about relations between police and citizens, with a focus on racial differences.

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    Long description:

    Race and Policing in America is about relations between police and citizens, with a focus on racial differences. It utilizes both the authors' own research and other studies to examine Americans' opinions, preferences, and personal experiences regarding the police. Guided by group-position theory and using both existing studies and the authors' own quantitative and qualitative data (from a nationally representative survey of whites, blacks, and Hispanics), this book examines the roles of personal experience, knowledge of others' experiences (vicarious experience), mass media reporting on the police, and neighborhood conditions (including crime and socioeconomic disadvantage) in structuring citizen views in four major areas: overall satisfaction with police in one's city and neighborhood, perceptions of several types of police misconduct, perceptions of police racial bias and discrimination, and evaluations of and support for a large number of reforms in policing.

    "This book touches on all the hot buttons of police-minority relations in America: unwarranted stops, verbal abuse, brutality and police corruption. Racial profiling is just one part of a larger story the authors frame as &&&147;racialized policing.&&&148; They explain how neighborhood conditions, citizens' experiences with cops and the media have helped create two societies, one safely confident in the powers and competence of the police and another that sees police as one of the problems they must confront, and not a solution to them. They report what people of all backgrounds want done to address the deep division over policing: On many issues Hispanics and African-Americans stand arm-in-arm in their commitment to change on a broad front, while the comfortable majority is reluctant to go beyond the rhetoric and embrace meaningful reform of the police. Drawing on national data that represent the nation's largest immigrant group, this is the best book yet on public opinion about the police."
    - Wesley G. Skogan, Northwestern University

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    Table of Contents:

    1. Police-minority relations in America; 2. Police misconduct; 3. Racially biased policing; 4. Reforming the police; 5. Conclusion: the continuing racial divide.

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