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• Acknowledgments Introduction: Police Violence
• 1 * Understanding Police Violence
• 2 * Deterrence, Rational Choice, Victimization, and Lifestyle Theories
• 3 * Individual-Level Theories
• 4 * Social Structure Theories
• 5 * Social Process Theories
• 6 * Societal Conflict and Legitimacy Theories
• 7 * Integrationist Perspectives Notes Bibliography Index.
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Criminology Explains Police Violence offers a concise and targeted overview of criminological theory applied to the phenomenon of police violence. In this engaging and accessible book, Philip M. Stinson, Sr. highlights the similarities and differences among criminological theories, and provides linkages across explanatory levels and across time and geography to explain police violence. This book is appropriate as a resource in criminology, policing, and criminal justice special topic courses, as well as a variety of violence and police courses such as policing, policing administration, police-community relations, police misconduct, and violence in society. Stinson uses examples from his own research to explore police violence, acknowledging the difficulty in studying the topic because violence is often seen as a normal part of policing.
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• Is police brutality a serious problem?
• What factors contribute to police brutality?
• How does police brutality affect society?
• How can police brutality be reduced?

• I - Police brutality and race before World War II
• II - Police brutality and unionism in the United States
• III - Police brutality and race after World War II
• IV - Police brutality against immigrant and ethnic groups
• V - Police brutality and protest in the era of Vietnam
• VI - The legal and legislative history of police brutality
• VII - Cultural representation in literature, music, and film
• VIII - Alterity and brutality in the late-twentieth century
• VIIII - Police brutality in the twenty-first century
• X - Conceptual and pragmatic issues in police brutality

An incredibly unique comic book benefit project featuring comic shorts, pin-ups, short essays, and flash fiction, the proceeds of which will be going to the Innocence Project We've all seen the pictures: a six-year-old Ruby Bridges being escorted by U.S. marshals on her first day at an all-white, New Orleans school in 1960; a police dog attacking a demonstrator in Birmingham; fire hoses turned on protesters; Martin Luther King Jr. addressing a crowd on the National Mall. These pictures were printed in papers, flashed across television screens, and helped to change the laws of this nation, but not necessarily all of the attitudes. Similarly, we've seen the pictures of Michael Brown lying face down in a pool of his own blood for hours; protesters with their hands up, facing down militarized policemen. There are videos of Eric Garner choked to death, John Crawford III shot down in Walmart for carrying a toy gun, and 12-year-old Tamir Rice gunned down in broad daylight for the same reason. APB: Artists Against Police Brutality is a benefit comic book anthology that focuses on hot-button issues including police brutality, the justice system, and civil rights, with one primary goal: show pictures and tell stories that get people talking. The proceeds will go to the Innocence Project, an organization dedicated to exonerating wrongfully convicted people.
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• Introduction
• Part 1.$ Police brutality and race before World War II
• Part 2.$ Police brutality and unionism in the United States
• Part 3.$ Police brutality and race after World War II
• Part 4.$ Police brutality against immigrant and ethnic groups
• Part 5.$ Police brutality and protest in the era of Vietnam
• Part 6.$ The legal and legislative history of police brutality
• Part 7.$ Cultural representation in literature, music, and film
• Part 8.$ Alterity and brutality in the late-twentieth century
• Part 9.$ Police brutality in the twenty-first century
• Part 10.$ Conceptual and pragmatic issues in police brutality.

"This handbook offers a comprehensive historical overview and analysis of police brutality in US history and the variety of ways it has manifested itself - Police brutality has been a defining controversy of the modern age, brought into focus most readily by the murder of George Floyd in Minneapolis and the mass protests that occurred as a result in 2020. However, the problem of police brutality has been consistent throughout American history. This volume traces its history back to Antebellum slavery, through the Gilded Age, the Progressive Era, the two world wars and the twentieth century, to the present day. This handbook is designed to create a generally holistic picture of the phenomenon of police brutality in the United States in all of its major lived forms and confronts a wide range of topics including: Race Ethnicity Gender Police reactions to protest movements (particularly as they relate to the counterculture and opposition to the Vietnam War) Legal and legislative outgrowths against police brutality The representations of police brutality in popular culture forms like film and music The role of technology in publicizing such abuses, and the protest movements mounted against it The Routledge History of Police Brutality in America will provide a vital reference work for students and scholars of American history, African-American history, criminal justice, sociology, anthropology, and Africana studies"-- Provided by publisher.

• Foreword: The fantasy of police / Rachel Herzing
• Introduction: On the nature of police / David Correira and Tyler Wall
• Part I: The order of police
• Chapter one: Inventing humanity, or the thin blue line as "patronizing shit" / Tyler Wall
• Chapter two: Disrupting order: Race, class and the roots of policing
• Philip V. McHarris
• Part II: The violence of police
• Chapter three: The white dog and dark water: Police violence in Central Vally / Julie Sze
• Chapter four: Poisoned and policed to death: Korryn Gaines, Freddie Gray, and the nature of police / David Correia
• Part III: The nature of police
• Chapter five: Policing, pipelines, and capillaries of capital in a warming world / Axel González
• Chapter six: Securing nature's return: Ecosystem ecology and environmental policing at the Savannah River site / Andrea Miller
• Part IV
• Chapter seven: The armed friendlies of settler order / Melanie K. Yazzie
• Chapter eight: The monster and the police: Dexter to Hobbes / Mark Neocleous
• Chapter nine: Proof of death: Police power and the visual economies of seizure, accumulation, and trophy / Travis Linnemann
• Epilogue: The plague of police / David Correia and Tyler Wall

This book 's radical theory of police argues that the police demand for order is a class order and a racialized and patriarchal order, by arguing that the police project, in order to fabricate and defend capitalist order, must patrol an imaginary line between society and nature, it must transform nature into inert matter made available for accumulation. Police don 't just patrol the ghetto or the Indian reservation, the thin blue line doesn 't just refer to a social order, rather police announce a general claim to domination--of labor and of nature. Police and police violence are modes of environment-making. This edited volume argues that any effort to understand racialized police violence is incomplete without a focus on the role of police in constituting and reinforcing patterns of environmental racism.
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From the beating of Rodney King to the shooting by New York City police officers of the unarmed and innocent Amadou Diallo, incidents of police brutality have galvanized and polarized the nation in a way few other contemporary events have. This is a collection of 13 essays - by academics, historians, social critics, a Chicago congressman, and an ex-New York City police detective - placing this centuries-old problem in historical and intellectual context, and underscoring the profound influence police brutality has had in shaping the American identity.
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A dynamic, moving hybrid work that celebrates Black youth, often too fleeting, and examines Black lives lost to police violence.
"In this astonishing volume of poems and lyric prose, Whiting Award-winner A. Van Jordan draws comparisons to Black characters in Shakespearean plays--Caliban and Sycorax from The Tempest, Aaron the Moor from Titus Andronicus, and the eponymous antihero of Othello--to mourn the deaths of Black people, particularly Black children, at the hands of police officers. What do these characters, and the ways they are defined by the white figures who surround them, have in common with Tamir Rice, Trayvon Martin, and other Black people killed in the twenty-first century? Balancing anger and grief with celebration, Jordan employs an elastic variety of poetic forms, including ekphrastic sestinas inspired by the photography of Malick Sidibé, fictional dialogues, and his signature definition poems that break down the insidious power of words like "fair," "suspect," and "juvenile." He invents a new form of window poems, based on a characterization exercise, to see Shakespeare's Black characters in three dimensions, and finds contemporary parallels in the way these characters are othered, rendered at once undesirable and hypersexualized, a threat and a joke. At once a stunning inquiry into the roots of racist violence and a moving recognition of the joy of Black youth before the world takes hold, When I Waked, I Cried to Dream Again expresses the preciousness and precarity of life." -- Provided by publisher.

"The ten demands necessary to repair the racist outcomes of the past, change the racist structures of the present, and pave the way for justice in the future"-- Provided by publisher

• Police brutality in theory and practice
• The origins of American reading
• Modern policing and the expansion of state power
• Cops and Klan, hand in hand
• Police control and class conflict
• Class dominance and police autonomy
• Secret police, red squads, and the strategy of permanent repression
• Riot police or police riots?
• Your friendly neighborhood police state.

Rather than an aberration enacted by "bad apples, " police misconduct is a function of law enforcement's emphasis on repressive values and unenlightened tactics, argues Kristian Robert Williams. Firmly rooted in history and current practice, Our Enemies in Blue offers a clear-eyed account of law enforcement practices, including how police target certain groups and work to preserve power imbalances within society. Efforts to grow the prison industry are revealed along with a surprising account of modern police forces - many of which evolved from protection rackets and slave patrols. As a growing number of United States citizens encounter the criminal justice system, this resource provides useful historical perspective and real-life strategies for opposing abuses of power.
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• Director's Foreword / Alex Poots
• The burn and the balm / Adeze Wilford
• Why I'm not a hard-edge painter: a conversation with Howardena Pindell / Hans Ulrich Obrist
• Rope/fire/water / Howardena Pindell
• Writings / Howardena Pindell
• Accounting for oneself / Ashley James

• Preface
• The time of blackened ethics
• The inadmissible career of social death
• From blackland, with love
• All the things your movement could be by now if it were to center black self-determination
• On performance and position, erotically
• Torture outside of pain in the black studies tradition
• Coda

Both significant and timely, this book addresses the punishment of "race" and the disavowal of sexual violence central to the contemporary "post-racial" culture of politics. Here the author asserts that the post-racial presents an antiblack animus that should be read as desiring the end of blackness and the black liberation movement's singular ethical claims. The book redefines policing as a sociohistorical process of implementing antiblackness and, in so doing, redefines racism as an act of sexual violence that produces the punishment of race. It smartly critiques the way leading antiracist discourse is frequently complicit with antiblackness and recalls the original 1960s conception of black studies as a corrective to the deficiencies in today's critical discourse on race and sex. The book explores these lines of inquiry to pinpoint how the history of racial slavery wraps itself in a new discourse of disavowal. In this way, Blackhood Against the Police Power responds to a range of texts, policies, practices, and representations complicit with the police power - from the Fourth Amendment and the movements to curtail stop-and-frisk policing and mass incarceration to popular culture treatments of blackness to the leading academic discourses on race and sex politics.
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Police violence is not a new phenomenon. In the late 19th and early 20th centuries, police officers in America assaulted or killed many ordinary citizens, often during improper detainments or arrests where no threat existed or no crime had been committed. Based on newspaper accounts from 1869 through 1920, this history provides a chronological listing of interactions between police and unarmed citizens in which the citizens-some of them minors-were assaulted or killed. Police who committed such acts often lied to protect themselves, assisted by fellow officers and encouraging the media to demonize the victims. The author provides information on the prosecution and punishment of officers where available.
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• Part I. Standards for evaluating police uses of force
• The constitutional law standard
• The state law standard
• The administrative standard
• The community expectations standard
• Part II. Police tactics and force options
• Tactical considerations
• Force options : tools, techniques, and weaponry
• Conclusion: Taking the "totality of the circumstances" seriously

Provides a critical understanding and evaluation of police tactics and the use of force Police violence has historically played an important role in shaping public attitudes toward the government. Community trust and confidence in policing have been undermined by the perception that officers are using force unnecessarily, too frequently, or in problematic ways. The use of force, or harm suffered by a community as a result of such force, can also serve as a flashpoint, a spark that ignites long-simmering community hostility. In Evaluating Police Uses of Force, legal scholar Seth W. Stoughton, former deputy chief of police Jeffrey J. Noble, and distinguished criminologist Geoffrey P. Alpert explore a critical but largely overlooked facet of the difficult and controversial issues of police violence and accountability: how does society evaluate use-of-force incidents? By leading readers through answers to this question from four different perspectives-constitutional law, state law, administrative regulation, and community expectations-and by providing critical information about police tactics and force options that are implicated within those frameworks, Evaluating Police Uses of Force helps situate readers within broader conversations about governmental accountability, the role that police play in modern society, and how officers should go about fulfilling their duties.
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