Summary
The text includes both classic pieces and original essays that provide the reader with a comprehensive, even-handed sense of the theoretical underpinnings, methodological challenges, and existing research necessary to understand the problems associated with racial and ethnic profiling and police bias.
Contents
Part I. The context. -- 1. A sketch of the policeman's working personality / Jerome H. Skolnick. -- 2. Driving while black: a statistician proves that prejudice still rules the road / John Lamberth. -- 3. The stories, the statistics, and the law: why "driving while black" matters / David A. Harris. -- 4. Legitimacy and cooperation: why do people help the police fight crime in their communities? / Tom R. Tyler & Jeffrey A. Fagan. -- 5. Race and policing in different ecological contexts / Ronald Weitzer. -- 6. Racially biased policing: a review of the judicial and legislative literature / Delores Jones-Brown & Brian A. Maule.
Part III. The research. -- 11. Driving while black bias processes and racial disparity in police stops / Patricia Warren & others. -- 12. Citizens' demeanor, race, and traffic stops / Robin S. Engel, Charles F. Klahm IV & Rob Tillyer. -- 13. Street stops and broken windows revisited: the demography and logic of proactive policing in a safe and changing city / Jeffrey A. Fagan & others. -- 14. Community characteristics and police search rates: accounting for the ethnic diversity of urban areas in the study of black, white, and Hispanic searches / Karen F. Parker, Erin C. Lane & Geoffrey P. Alpert. -- 15. Blind justice: police shootings in Memphis / James J. Fyfe. -- 16. Race, bias, and police use of the TASER: exploring the available evidence / Michael D. White & Jessica Saunders --
Part II. The methods. -- 7. Methods for assessing racially biased policing / Greg Ridgeway & John MacDonald. -- 8. Using geographic information systems to study race, crime, and policing / Matt R. Nobles. -- 9. Beyond stop rates: using qualitative methods to examine racially biased policing / Rod K. Brunson. -- 10. State of the science in racial profiling research: substantive and methodological considerations / Meaghan Paulhamus, Robert J. Kane & Alex R. Piquero. --
Part IV. The future. -- 17. Space, place, and immigration: new directions for research on police stops / Brian J. Stults, Karen F. Parker & Erin C. Lane. -- 18. Revisiting the role of Latinos and immigrants in police research / Ramiro Martinez Jr. -- 19. New avenues for profiling and bias research: the question of Muslim Americans / Stephen K. Rice & William S. Parkin. -- 20. Preventing racially biased policing through internal and external controls: the comprehensive accountability package / Michael D. White. -- 21. Democratic policing: how would we know it if we saw it? / Matthew J. Hickman. -- 22. Moving beyond profiling: the virtues of randomization / Bernard E. Harcourt.