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Race and police brutality : roots of an urban dilemma / Malcolm D. Holmes and Brad W. Smith.
- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Holmes, Malcolm D.
- Series:
- SUNY series in deviance and social control
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Police brutality--United States.
- Police brutality.
- Minorities--Crimes against.
- United States.
- Sociology, Urban--United States.
- Sociology, Urban.
- Minorities--Crimes against--United States.
- Minorities.
- United States--Ethnic relations.
- Ethnic relations.
- Physical Description:
- ix, 186 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm.
- Place of Publication:
- Albany : State University of New York Press, [2008]
- Summary:
- 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.
- Contents:
- The nature of police brutality
- Social threat and police violence
- Social identity and ingroup bias
- Stereotyping and outgroup bias
- The emotional roots of intergroup relations
- Translating intergroup biases into intergroup aggression
- A social, emotional, and cognitive theory of excessive force
- Can popular policies reduce police brutality?
- Roots of an urban dilemma.
- Notes:
- Includes bibliographical references (pages 157-179) and index.
- ISBN:
- 9780791476192
- 0791476197
- 9780791476208
- 0791476200
- OCLC:
- 186348949
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