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Police-Community Relations in Times of Crisis : Decay and Reform in the Post-Ferguson Era /
The deaths of Michael Brown and George Floyd at the hands of white police officers have uncovered an apparent legitimacy crisis at the heart of American policing. Drawing on interviews with officers, offenders, practitioners and community members, this book explores policing changes in the 'pos...
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Bristol :
Bristol University Press,
2021
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Tabla de Contenidos:
- Front Cover
- Police-Community Relations in Times of Crisis: Decay and Reform in the Post- Ferguson Era
- Copyright information
- Table of contents
- List of Tables and Boxes
- Acknowledgments
- Foreword
- Part I Introduction
- 1 Policing, Communities, and the "Legitimacy Crisis": Context and Empirical Approaches
- Cops in crisis? Ferguson, police legitimacy, and de-policing
- Gangs, violence, and political and public concern about criminality
- Focus for the book, research methods, and chapter summaries
- Backdrop, aims, and purpose
- Approaches to data collection and analysis
- Chapter summaries
- Contribution to the field
- Part II Police-Community Relations in a New Era of Accountability and Change
- 2 High-Profile Shootings, the Media, and Police Legitimacy
- Police legitimacy and the confidence gap
- The roots of racial injustice
- Ferguson and the Department of Justice Report
- Social media and collective action
- Chapter summary
- 3 The "Ferguson Effect" and Emergence of "De-policing"
- The emergence of countermovements
- The "war on police"?
- Law enforcement accountability
- Harm to officers
- A galvanized police response
- Impact of the Ferguson Effect
- Chapter summary
- 4 Proactive Policing of Gangs: Cops as "Guardians"
- Reactive and proactive approaches to the policing of gang violence
- Insights into proactive approaches in Palm State
- People-changing, environment-changing "guardians" and "peace dealers"
- Street dialogue, "surrogate parenting," and democratic policing
- Outreach, education, and dialogical workshops
- Chapter summary
- 5 Reactive Policing of Gangs: Cops as "Warriors"
- The warrior/guardian framework
- Police militarization
- Warrior policing in the "hood."
- Warrior policing and gang suppression
- Chapter summary
- Part III Practitioner and Youth Insights on Police-Community Relations
- 6 Police as "Guardians" and "Warriors": Non-Law Enforcement Insights
- Racial minority men, gangs, violence, and the police
- Insights from practitioners and from participant observation in Queen County
- Young racial minority men, multiple disadvantage, and gangs
- Young men and the police in racial minority communities
- Reflections on proactive, community-centered policing approaches
- Critical perspectives on community engagement and officer-youth dialogues
- Police involvement and absence in outreach, early intervention, and prevention
- Police focus on "guardians" and a remaining, entrenched "warrior" culture
- Chapter summary
- 7 The Post-Ferguson Era: The Lived Experiences of Young Men in Racial Minority Communities
- Moving beyond practitioner perspectives: Interviews with young men
- Adverse childhood experiences, gangs, morality, and risk management
- Police discrimination, brutality, and repercussions from "warrior" approaches