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Police Brutality
Four intriguing questions are asked across four chapters: Are the police using excessive force? Is police brutality a widespread problem in the United States? How can police brutality be stopped? What is the U.S. government's response to police brutality? Essays assembled under each question debate the related topics, allowing readers access to more than one intelligent viewpoint. Essayists include Linn Washington Jr., Jazz Shaw, Colin Ochs, Nicole Flatow, and Michael S. Rozeff.
Race and police brutality : roots of an urban dilemma
What causes police brutality, and why are minority citizens the primary victims? Social scientists often attribute the behavior to poorly managed police departments, bad cops, or the interests of the powerful in controlling minorities perceived as criminal threats. Malcolm D. Holmes and Brad W. Smith contend that these explanations fail to identify key causes of police misconduct, particularly the use of excessive force. Focusing on the interaction of ordinary social-psychological processes and the disadvantaged conditions of minority neighborhoods, Holmes and Smith develop an integrated model of police brutality that takes into account contemporary theory and research on social identity, stereotypes, and emotions factors that produce intergroup tensions and may trigger unwarranted acts of aggression. Their approach overcomes existing theoretical difficulties and raises the question of how this complex social problem might be effectively addressed.
The psychology of good and evil : why children, adults, and groups help and harm others
This book explores the roots of goodness and evil by gathering together the knowledge gained in a lifelong study of harmful or altruistic behavior. Ervin Staub has studied what leads children and adults to help others in need and how caring, helping, and altruism develop in children; bullying and youth violence and their prevention; the roots of genocide, mass killing, and other harmful behavior between groups of people; the prevention of violence; healing victimized groups and reconciliation between groups. He presents a broad panorama of the roots of violence and caring and how we create societies and a world that is caring, peaceful, and harmonious.
Race and policing in America : conflict and reform
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.
Fallen blue knights : controlling police corruption
Despite its suspected prevalence, no comprehensive analysis of police corruption has been published for nearly three decades. Fallen Blue Knights provides a systematic, in-depth analysis of the subject, while also addressing the question of what can be done to ensure successful corruption control. Kutnjak Ivković argues that the current mechanisms for control--the courts, prosecutors, independent commissions, and the media, as well as the internal control mechanisms within a police agency itself--suffer from severe shortcomings that substantially limit their effectiveness. In this much-needed analysis, Kutnjak Ivković redefines the roles of major players and develops a novel, comprehensive model of corruption control.
Dennis, A., Aradillas, E., Baker, K. C., Herbst, D., Kantor, W. G., Keating, S. K., Pelisek, C., & Truesdell, J. (2020). Anguish in America: A Nation Torn Apart. (cover story). People, 93(24), 34
Westfall, S. S., Kantor, W. G., Pelisek, C., & Truesdell, J. (2020). Protests, Pain & Officers Arrested Seeking Justice for George Floyd. People, 53(25), 64
Altman, A., Abramson, A., Bennett, B., Berenson, T., Bergengruen, V., Elliott, P., Villa, L., Aguilera, J., Alter, C., Bates, J., Moakley, P., & Waxman, O. B. (2020). The President, the Protesters and the Plague of Police Violence. TIME Magazine, 195(22), 30
Scott, E. M. D. (2020). A ritual to honor black lives. Christian Century, 137(10), 30
Westerbeck, R. (2020). Police Brutality, Over-Policing, and Mass Incarceration in African American Film. Journal of Black Studies, 51(3), 213–227. https://doi-org.sdcity.idm.oclc.org/10.1177/0021934719895579
Bell, J. (2020). The Violence of Nosy Questions. Boston University Law Review, 100(3), 935–949
Teasley, M. L., Schiele, J. H., Adams, C., & Okilwa, N. S. (2018). Trayvon Martin: Racial Profiling, Black Male Stigma, and Social Work Practice. Social Work, 63(1), 37–46. https://doi-org.sdcity.idm.oclc.org/10.1093/SW/SWX049
Packnett, B. (2019). How Ferguson Woke Us Up. TIME Magazine, 194(6), 17–18.
Altman, A., Abramson, A., Bennett, B., Berenson, T., Bergengruen, V., Elliott, P., Villa, L., Aguilera, J., Alter, C., Bates, J., Moakley, P., & Waxman, O. B. (2020). The President, the Protesters and the Plague of Police Violence. TIME Magazine, 195(22), 30.
Films Media Group. (2016). Policing the police. Films On Demand. https://fod.infobase.com/PortalPlaylists.aspx?wID=97701&xtid=151237.
Films Media Group. (2015). #Blacklivesmatter. Films On Demand. https://fod.infobase.com/PortalPlaylists.aspx?wID=97701&xtid=117844.
Films Media Group. (2016). Black Power: America's armed resistance. Films On Demand. https://fod.infobase.com/PortalPlaylists.aspx?wID=97701&xtid=138575. Some content in this video may be objectionable. This video contains violent images. Some language in this video may be offensive
Films Media Group. (2016). Tedtalks: Kimberlé Crenshaw: the urgency of intersectionality. Films On Demand. https://fod.infobase.com/PortalPlaylists.aspx?wID=97701&xtid=133347.
