Policing and Race in America: Economic, Political, and Social Dynamics

✍ Scribed by James D. Ward (editor)

Publisher: Lexington Books/Fortress Academic
Year: 2017
Tongue: English
Leaves: 305
Category: Library

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✦ Synopsis

This edited collection explores policing in America in regards to minority groups. The essays discuss how the relationship between police and minority groups affects politics, the economy, and minority groups' daily lives and success. The contributors explore the Black Lives Matter movement, the Detroit, Los Angeles, and Atlanta Police Departments, immigration, incarceration, community policing, police violence, and detail causes, theories, and solutions to this important phenomenon.

✦ Subjects

Discrimination in law enforcement-United States. ; Police-United States.; LAW013000; POL004000; POL014000

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