The ethics of policing new perspectives on law enforcement

"This book offers a wide-ranging analysis of the current ethical challenges facing police and the institutions that oversee them, featuring contributions from leading experts in black studies, criminology, history, law, philosophy, political science, and sociology"--

Other Authors: Jones, Ben, 1985- (Editor), Mendieta, Eduardo (Editor)
Format: Books Print Book
Language: English
Published: New York : New York University Press, [2021]
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Table of Contents:
  • Part I. The role of police
  • Clashing narratives of policing? the quest for lawful versus effective policing and the possibility of abolition as a solution / Tracey L. Meares
  • Legitimate policing and professional norms / Jake Monaghan
  • Reward and "real" police work / Michael Sierra-AreĢvalo
  • Part II. Use of force
  • Soldiers and police / Michael Walzer
  • When police do not need to kill / Franklin Zimring
  • Prioritization of life as a guiding principle for police use of deadly force / David Klinger
  • Part III. Race, bias, and resistance
  • Policing narratives in the Black counterpublic / Vesla Weaver
  • Police ethics through presidential politics and abolitionist struggle : Angela Y. Davis and Erica Garner / Joy James
  • Part IV. Policing's past and future
  • Police and slave patrols : a history of state-sponsored White-on-Black violence / Sally Hadden
  • From protection to predation : policing as the pursuit of war by other means in the Third Reich / Nicolas de Warren
  • Police, drones, and the politics of perception / Lisa Guenther
  • Predictive policing and the ethics of preemption / Daniel Susser.