Race and Police Brutality
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Race and Police Brutality

Roots of an Urban Dilemma

  1. 196 pages
  2. English
  3. PDF
  4. Available on iOS & Android
eBook - PDF

Race and Police Brutality

Roots of an Urban Dilemma

About this book

Disputes standard explanations of police brutality against minority citizens to offer new insights and suggestions on dealing with this problem.

What causes police brutality, and why are minority citizens the primary victims? Social scientists often attribute the behavior to poorly managed police departments, bad cops, or the interests of the powerful in controlling minorities perceived as criminal threats. Malcolm D. Holmes and Brad W. Smith contend that these explanations fail to identify key causes of police misconduct, particularly the use of excessive force. Focusing on the interaction of ordinary social-psychological processes and the disadvantaged conditions of minority neighborhoods, Holmes and Smith develop an integrated model of police brutality that takes into account contemporary theory and research on social identity, stereotypes, and emotions-factors that produce intergroup tensions and may trigger unwarranted acts of aggression. Their approach overcomes existing theoretical difficulties and raises the question of how this complex social problem might be effectively addressed.

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Table of contents

  1. Race and Police Brutality
  2. CONTENTS
  3. PREFACE
  4. ACKNOWLEDGMENTS
  5. 1. The Nature of Police Brutality
  6. 2. Social Threat and Police Violence
  7. 3. Social Identity and Ingroup Bias
  8. 4. Stereotyping and Outgroup Bias
  9. 5. The Emotional Rootsof Intergroup Relations
  10. 6. Translating Intergroup Biases into Intergroup Aggression
  11. 7. A Social, Emotional, and Cognitive Theory of Excessive Force
  12. 8. Can Popular Policies Reduce Police Brutality?
  13. NOTES
  14. REFERENCES
  15. INDEX
  16. 9. Roots of an Urban Dilemma