Suchergebnisse
Suchergebnisse:
11. Feb. 2021 · Given the recent widespread calls for law enforcement reforms, especially following the death of George Floyd in 2020, the researchers wanted to determine how the deployment of officers from different racial, ethnic and gender identities might affect the treatment of civilians.
26. Dez. 2011 · The main focus of the current study was to explore whether and how racial and ethnic variation in perceptions of police behavior varies across officer race. We specifically explored one primary research question: Do the combined effects of race, ethnicity, and gender influence evaluations of police behavior differently for White and ...
- Joshua C. Cochran, Patricia Y. Warren
- 2012
19. Juli 2019 · The purpose of this research is to ascertain how occupational attitudes and background characteristics shape police recruit perceptions of policing people from diverse communities categorized by variations in racial, ethnic, religious, sexual, and gender identities.
- Toby Miles-Johnson
- 2019
11. Feb. 2021 · A new study published Thursday in the journal Science suggests that diversity in law enforcement can indeed lead to improvements in how police treat people of color.
- The History of Racialized Policing
- Gathering Numbers
- Fighting vs. Preventing Crime
- Policing and Criminal Justice System
- Courts and Mass Incarceration
- Sentencing Reform
- Not Just Bad Apples
- Community-Based Ways Forward
Like many scholars, Khalil Gibran Muhammad, professor of history, race, and public policy at the Harvard Kennedy School, traces the history of policing in America to “slave patrols” in the antebellum South, in which white citizens were expected to help supervise the movements of enslaved Black people. This legacy, he believes, can still be seen in ...
In 2015 The Washington Post began tracking every fatal shooting by an on-duty officer, using news stories, social media posts, and police reports in the wake of the fatal police shooting of Brown, a Black teenager in Ferguson, Mo. According to the newspaper, Black Americans are killed by police at twice the rate of white Americans, and Hispanic Ame...
For many analysts, the real problem with policing in America is the fact that there is simply too much of it. “We’ve seen since the mid-1970s a dramatic increase in expenditures that are associated with expanding the criminal legal system, including personnel and the tasks we ask police to do,” said Sandra Susan Smith, Daniel and Florence Guggenhei...
Alexandra Natapoff, Lee S. Kreindler Professor of Law, sees policing as inexorably linked to the country’s criminal justice system and its long ties to racism. “Policing does not stand alone or apart from how we charge people with crimes, or how we convict them, or how we treat them once they’ve been convicted,” she said. “That entire bundle of off...
Much of Natapoff’s recent work emphasizes the hidden dangers of the nation’s misdemeanor system. In her book “Punishment Without Crime: How Our Massive Misdemeanor System Traps the Innocent and Makes America More Unequal,” Natapoff shows how the practice of stopping, arresting, and charging people with low-level offenses often sends them down a dev...
Another contributing factor in mass incarceration is sentencing disparities. A recent Harvard Law School studyfound that, as is true nationally, people of color are “drastically overrepresented in Massachusetts state prisons.” But the report also noted that Black and Latinx people were less likely to have their cases resolved through pretrial proba...
Reform has long been a goal for federal leaders. Many heralded Obama-era changes aimed at eliminating racial disparities in policing and outlined in the report by The President’s Task Force on 21st Century policing.But HKS’s Smith saw them as largely symbolic. “It’s a nod to reform. But most of the reforms that are implemented in this country tend ...
Still Smith sees reason for hope and possible ways forward involving a range of community-based approaches. As part of the effort to explore meaningful change, Smith, along with Christopher Winship, Diker-Tishman Professor of Sociology at Harvard University and a member of the senior faculty at HKS, have organized “Reimagining Community Safety: A P...
Racial, Ethnic, and Gender Differences in Perceptions of the Police: The Salience of Officer Race Within the Context of Racial Profiling. Journal of Contemporary Criminal Justice 28(2) 206 –227 2012 SAGE Publications Reprints and permission: http://www. sagepub.com/journalsPermissions.nav. DOI: 10.1177/1043986211425726. http://ccj.sagepub.com.
11. Feb. 2021 · Diversity in policing can improve police-civilian interactions, say Princeton researchers. Feb. 11, 2021. Illustration by Egan Jimenez, Princeton School of Public and International Affairs. The recent killings of Black Americans have reignited calls for policing reform, including proposals to diversify police departments, which have ...
