Frank R. Baumgartner, Derek A. Epp, Kelsey Shoub

Suspect Citizens

• Broschiertes Buch

Produktbeschreibung

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

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Cambridge University Press
• Seitenzahl: 294
• Erscheinungstermin: 1. März 2019
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 229mm x 152mm x 17mm
• Gewicht: 429g
• ISBN-13: 9781108454049
• ISBN-10: 1108454046
• Artikelnr.: 50991890

Autorenporträt

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.

Inhaltsangabe

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.