| Author | Title | Citation | Summary | Year | key Terms in Title or Summary |
| Karen Hopkins |
Deadly Force Revisited: Transparency and Accountability for D.c. Police Use of Force |
72 National Lawyers Guild Review 129 (Fall, 2015) |
In 1999, a Washington Post investigative series entitled Deadly Force revealed that the Metropolitan Police Department (MPD) in the District of Columbia had shot and killed more people per resident in the 1990s than any other large American city police force. The Post found that in some cases the police investigated themselves and failed to; Search Snippet: ...Fall, 2015 DEADLY FORCE REVISITED: TRANSPARENCY AND ACCOUNTABILITY FOR D.C. POLICE USE OF FORCE Karen Hopkins [FNa1] Copyright © 2015 by National... |
2015 |
Yes |
| Rukiya Mohamed |
Death by Cop: the Lessons of Ferguson Prove the Need for Special Prosecutors |
59 Howard Law Journal 271 (Fall, 2015) |
INTRODUCTION. 272 I. MECHANISMS FOR STATE SPECIAL PROSECUTOR APPOINTMENTS. 275 A. What is a Special Prosecutor?. 276 B. Ferguson is an Example of How the States' Current Mechanisms Fail to Appoint a Special Prosecutor When He is Most Needed. 277 1. The Different Approach McCulloch Took in Wilson's Prosecution. 278 2. Why McCulloch was not Removed; Search Snippet: ...JOURNAL Howard Law Journal Fall, 2015 Note & Comment DEATH BY COP: THE LESSONS OF FERGUSON PROVE THE NEED FOR SPECIAL PROSECUTORS... |
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| Jordan Blair Woods |
Decriminalization, Police Authority, and Routine Traffic Stops |
62 UCLA Law Review 672 (March, 2015) |
Although there is no universal definition of decriminalization, approaches to decriminalization largely focus on modifying how conduct is sanctioned or punished. This Article argues that there is a need to broaden approaches to decriminalization beyond sanctions and give more consideration to the other ways in which criminalization fosters state... |
2015 |
Yes |
| Barry Friedman , Maria Ponomarenko |
Democratic Policing |
90 New York University Law Review 1827 (December, 2015) |
Of all the agencies of executive government, those that police--that employ force and engage in surveillance--are the most threatening to the liberties of the American people. Yet, they are the least regulated. Two core requisites of American constitutionalism are democratic accountability and adherence to the rule of law. Democratic accountability... |
2015 |
Yes |
| Sarah Zwach |
Disproportionate Use of Deadly Force on Unarmed Minority Males: How Gender and Racial Perceptions Can Be Remedied |
30 Wisconsin Journal of Law, Gender & Society 185 (Fall 2015) |
Introduction. 186 I. Background. 188 A. Recent Police Killings of Unarmed Minority Males. 188 i. The Case of Michael Brown. 188 ii. A National Concern. 191 B. The Problem Is in the Numbers. 193 i. FBI Uniform Crime Reports. 193 ii. Alternative Measures. 194 C. Police Corruption: Legislative and Judicial Intervention. 197 i. History of Police in... |
2015 |
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| Walter Katz |
Enhancing Accountability and Trust with Independent Investigations of Police Lethal Force |
128 Harvard Law Review Forum 235 (April, 2015) |
There are few acts committed by local government that draw more controversy than a police department's use of lethal force. Broad cross-sections of the public have lost trust in local law enforcement agencies due to their perception of biased investigations of such deadly-force incidents. This loss of trust can threaten the legitimacy of local law... |
2015 |
Yes |
| Rachel A. Harmon |
Federal Programs and the Real Costs of Policing |
90 New York University Law Review 870 (June, 2015) |
Dozens of federal statutes authorize federal agencies to give money and power to local police departments and municipalities in order to improve public safety. While these federal programs encourage better coordination of police efforts and make pursuing public safety less financially costly for local communities, they also encourage harmful; Search Snippet: ...June, 2015 Article FEDERAL PROGRAMS AND THE REAL COSTS OF POLICING Rachel A. Harmon [FNa1] Copyright (c) 2015 by Rachel A... |
2015 |
Yes |
| Richard Rosenfeld |
Ferguson and Police Use of Deadly Force |
80 Missouri Law Review 1077 (Fall, 2015) |
The killing of Michael Brown, an unarmed black teenager, by Darren Wilson, a white police officer in Ferguson, Missouri, sparked widespread protests in the St. Louis area and across the nation. Protests and civil unrest resumed after a St. Louis County grand jury declined to indict the police officer. Protesters and commentators raised several... |
2015 |
Yes |
| William C. Nevin |
Fighting Slurs: Contemporary Fighting Words and the Question of Criminally Punishable Racial Epithets |
14 First Amendment Law Review 127 (Fall, 2015) |
In State v. Smith, the Court of Appeals of Wisconsin was faced with the somewhat novel question of whether racist Facebook comments could serve as the basis for disorderly conduct and unauthorized use of a computer system charges. The case against Thomas Smith began when the Village of Arena police department posted a Facebook status update... |
2015 |
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| Jeffrey Fagan , Amanda Geller |
Following the Script: Narratives of Suspicion in Terry Stops in Street Policing |
82 University of Chicago Law Review 51 (Winter, 2015) |
Regulation of Terry stops of pedestrians by police requires articulation of the reasonable and individualized bases of suspicion that motivate their actions. Nearly five decades after Terry, courts have found it difficult to articulate the boundaries or parameters of reasonable suspicion. The behavior and appearances of individuals combine with the... |
2015 |
Yes |
| Kimani Paul-Emile |
Foreword: Critical Race Theory and Empirical Methods Conference |
83 Fordham Law Review 2953 (May, 2015) |
Everyone seems to be talking about race. From the protests that erupted in cities across the country over the failure of grand juries in Missouri and New York to indict police officers in the killing of two unarmed black men, to the racially charged statements made by the owners of professional sports teams; and the college fraternity members... |
2015 |
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| Robert D. Crutchfield |
From Slavery to Social Class to Disadvantage: an Intellectual History of the Use of Class to Explain Racial Differences in Criminal Involvement |
44 Crime and Justice Just. 1 (2015) |
Social class differences have been invoked to explain perceived racial differences in criminal involvement in the United States since the middle of the nineteenth century. Scholars have joined with the public and the media to make such arguments with mixed success. Despite criticism of the theories and research methods used and contradictory... |
2015 |
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| K. Babe Howell |
Gang Policing: the Post Stop-and-frisk Justification for Profile-based Policing |
5 University of Denver Criminal Law Review Rev. 1 (Summer, 2015) |
The New York City Police Department (NYPD) is about to follow a number of other urban police departments down the well-worn path of gang policing. It does not take this path because New York City has a significant gang problem. Gangs ranked last and second-to-last among the causes of murder in the two years since the NYPD added the category of... |
2015 |
Yes |
| K. Babe Howell |
Gang Policing: the Post Stop-and-frisk Justification for Profile-based Policing |
5 University of Denver Criminal Law Review 1 (Summer, 2015) |
The New York City Police Department (NYPD) is about to follow a number of other urban police departments down the well-worn path of gang policing. It does not take this path because New York City has a significant gang problem. Gangs ranked last and second-to-last among the causes of murder in the two years since the NYPD added the category of; Search Snippet: ...REVIEW University of Denver Criminal Law Review Summer, 2015 GANG POLICING: THE POST STOP-AND-FRISK JUSTIFICATION FOR PROFILE-BASED POLICING K. Babe Howell [FNa1] Copyright © 2015 by the University of... |
2015 |
Yes |
| Leigh Goodmark |
Hands up at Home: Militarized Masculinity and Police Officers Who Commit Intimate Partner Abuse |
2015 Brigham Young University Law Review 1183 (2015) |
The deaths of Michael Brown and Eric Garner and the almost daily news stories about abusive and violent police conduct are currently prompting questions about the appropriate use of force by police officers. Moreover, the history of police brutality directed towards women is well-documented. Most of that literature, however, captures the violence; Search Snippet: ...Review 2015 Article HANDS UP AT HOME: MILITARIZED MASCULINITY AND POLICE OFFICERS WHO COMMIT INTIMATE PARTNER ABUSE Leigh Goodmark [FNa1] Copyright... |
2015 |
Yes |
| Iesha S. Nunes |
Hands Up, Don't Shoot: Police Misconduct and the Need for Body Cameras |
67 Florida Law Review 1811 (September, 2015) |
The 2014 shooting of Michael Brown in Ferguson, Missouri is probably the most notable of the many recent cases in the media involving police officers' use of excessive force. After Officer Darren Wilson shot and killed Brown, varying accounts of what transpired between the two men surfaced. Officer Wilson claimed he was defending himself against... |
2015 |
Yes |
| Zach Newman |
Hands Up, Don't Shoot: Policing, Fatal Force, and Equal Protection in the Age of Colorblindness |
43 Hastings Constitutional Law Quarterly 117 (Fall 2015) |
For our civilized world is nothing but a masquerade. - Arthur Schopenhauer, 1851 When people come to believe that a system offers them nothing, they have nothing to lose by burning it down. - Erwin Chemerinsky, 1993 Every time you see me, you want to mess with me. - Eric Garner, 2014 And we hate po-po, wanna kill us dead in the street for sure. -... |
2015 |
Yes |
| Lorenzo G. Morales |
Heien V. North Carolina and Police Mistakes of Law: the Supreme Court Adds Another Ingredient to its "Freedom-destroying Cocktail" |
52 California Western Law Review 79 (Fall 2015) |
Introduction. 79 II. Heien v. North Carolina. 81 A. Facts and Procedural History. 81 B. Majority Opinion. 83 C. Concurring Opinion. 85 D. Dissenting Opinion. 86 III. The Supreme Court Erred by Declining to Follow the Former Majority Rule, Which Has Stronger Justifications Than the Former Minority Rule. 88 IV. The Supreme Court did not Sufficiently... |
2015 |
Yes |
| Arneta Rogers |
How Police Brutality Harms Mothers: Linking Police Violence to the Reproductive Justice Movement |
12 Hastings Race and Poverty Law Journal 205 (Summer, 2015) |
Until the killing of Black men, Black mothers' sons, becomes as important to the rest of the country as the killing of a White mother's son--we who believe in freedom cannot rest until this happens. -Ella Baker The recent and highly publicized killing of Michael Brown, an unarmed 18-year-old African American and the subsequent grand jury decision... |
2015 |
Yes |
| L.J. Jackson |
In Black and White |
101-OCT ABA Journal 28 (October, 2015) |
Eric Garner. Michael Brown. Akai Gurley. Tamir Rice. Walter Scott. Freddie Gray. Samuel DuBose. All names of unarmed African-American males killed during police encounters in the past 18 months. The string of high-profile fatalities stirred unrest and prompted marches and public outcries for reform. Former criminal defense attorney Robbin Shipp; Search Snippet: ...reginald.davis@americanbar.org Profile IN BLACK AND WHITE Lawyer's Cause: Reducing Racial Conflict with Cops L.J. Jackson Copyright © 2015 by the American Bar Association; L.J... |
2015 |
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| Kami Chavis Simmons |
Increasing Police Accountability: Restoring Trust and Legitimacy Through the Appointment of Independent Prosecutors |
49 Washington University Journal of Law & Policy 137 (2015) |
Immediately following the shooting death of Michael Brown in Ferguson, Missouri and the death of Eric Gardner at the hands of a New York City Police Department officer, criminal justice advocates called for greater measures to hold police officers accountable for their actions. For many observers, the failure to secure criminal indictments against... |
2015 |
Yes |
| Madeline M. Gomez |
Intersections at the Border: Immigration Enforcement, Reproductive Oppression, and the Policing of Latina Bodies in the Rio Grande Valley |
30 Columbia Journal of Gender and Law 84 (2015) |
A series of events in 2014 brought significant attention to the United States-Mexico border. Over the summer, reports of an influx of undocumented Central American immigrants began circulating. Though most coverage mentioned only children crossing the border, many of these young migrants traveled alongside their mothers. Reports of this influx... |
2015 |
Yes |
| John T. Bennett |
It's Not Jim Crow, It's Jail: Questioning the Role of Race in the Origins of Punitive Policy |
14 Cardozo Public Law, Policy and Ethics Journal 39 (Fall 2015) |
Introduction. 40 I. Why the Punitive Shift?. 45 A. Modern Crime. 46 i. The Decline of the Rehabilitative Ideal. 49 ii. Informal Social Controls. 51 iii. A Subculture of Violence. 52 iv. The Punitive Shift. 53 II. The Role of Race in the Punitive Shift. 54 III. The Punitive Shift in England, South Africa, and the U.S.. 61 A. England. 61 i. The... |
2015 |
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| The Honorable Cruz Reynoso |
Justice for All Americans? Fatal Shootings by Police |
49 Washington University Journal of Law & Policy 121 (2015) |
Since the fatal shooting of Michael Brown, a young African American man, on August 9, 2014, in Ferguson, Missouri, by a white police officer, the national media has reported a series of similar deaths. More recently, the death of Freddie Gray in Baltimore and the resulting riots pose a different question: is the issue simply a black/white conflict?... |
2015 |
Yes |
| Brian Rodriguez |
Latinos and the Criminal Justice System: Overcoming Racial Stigma from Trial to Incarceration |
40 Thurgood Marshall Law Review Online Online 7 (2015) |
According to the National Council of La Raza NCLR, Latinos in the United States face discrimination and overrepresentation in every step of the criminal justice system, from arrest to incarceration. Tough on crime policies enacted since the 1970's for the purpose of reducing violent crimes and promoting efficiency in the criminal justice... |
2015 |
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| Tracey L. Meares , Tom R. Tyler , Jacob Gardener |
Lawful or Fair? How Cops and Laypeople Perceive Good Policing |
105 Journal of Criminal Law and Criminology 297 (Spring 2015) |
Legal authorities and the public live in two separate worlds. One world is suffused with law, and the other world is suffused with people's lived experiences that support their evaluations of fairness. When legal authorities consider whether police policies and practices are desirable, a framework regarding the lawfulness of the relevant policies... |
2015 |
Yes |
| Gary Peller |
Legal Education and the Legitimation of Racial Power |
65 Journal of Legal Education 405 (November, 2015) |
Thank you for your invitation to talk with you today about how the recent uproar about police killings of African-Americans in Ferguson, Missouri, and across the country might connect to your experience in elite legal education-- what might Harvard Law School have to do with what is going on? I will talk about the way that racial justice is... |
2015 |
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| Waleska Suero |
Lessons from Floyd V. City of New York: Designing Race-based Remedies for Equal Protection Violations in Stop & Frisk Cases |
7 Georgetown Journal of Law & Modern Critical Race Perspectives 139 (Spring, 2015) |
In Terry v. Ohio, the Supreme Court held that a police officer may briefly stop an individual based on reasonable suspicion of recent or ongoing criminal activity and then frisk the individual's outer clothing upon a reasonable belief that the individual is armed and dangerous. Although Terry required police officers to point to specific and... |
2015 |
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| Kelly K. Koss |
Leveraging Predictive Policing Algorithms to Restore Fourth Amendment Protections in High-crime Areas in a Post-wardlow World |
90 Chicago-Kent Law Review 301 (2015) |
Before walking the streets of his beat in Chicago's West Englewood neighborhood, on October 25, 2017, Officer Adams uses one of the station's computers to get the latest report on today's forecasted criminal activity. The report designates part of Officer Adams' beat, specifically the 500-foot radius around the intersection of South Ashland Avenue... |
2015 |
Yes |
| Charlotte Guerra |
Living under the Boot: Police Militarization and Peaceful Protest |
14 Seattle Journal for Social Justice 521 (Fall, 2015) |
But always . always there will be the intoxication of power, constantly increasing and constantly growing subtler. Always, at every moment, there will be the thrill of victory, the sensation of trampling on an enemy who is helpless. If you want a picture of the future, imagine a boot stamping on a human face--forever. In the modem era, it is almost... |
2015 |
Yes |
| Sierra Villaran |
Narratives of Cultural Collision and Racial Oppression: How to Reconcile Theories of a Cultural Defense and Rotten Social Background Defense to Best Serve Criminal Defendants |
88 Southern California Law Review 1239 (July, 2015) |
Once upon a time, not so long ago, culture, in the lower case, was primarily an anthropological preoccupation. Not any more. It is hardly news that peoples across the planet have taken to invoking it, to signifying themselves with reference to it, to investing it with an authority, a determinacy, a superorganic unity of which even the most... |
2015 |
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| Marcia L. McCormick |
Our Uneasiness with Police Unions: Power and Voice for the Powerful? |
35 Saint Louis University Public Law Review 47 (2015) |
When Michael Brown was shot by Officer Darren Wilson in August of 2014 and people started to talk publicly to tell the story of what happened, to determine whether a crime had occurred, or to protest the shooting or living conditions of African Americans in Ferguson and cities like it, the two people in the best position to talk about what happened... |
2015 |
Yes |
| Nancy C. Marcus |
Out of Breath and down to the Wire: a Call for Constitution-focused Police Reform |
59 Howard Law Journal L.J. 5 (Fall, 2015) |
INTRODUCTION (THE DEATH OF FREDDIE GRAY). 6 I. A BREATHTAKING SNAPSHOT IN TIME: FROM I CAN'T BREATHE TO FUCK YOUR BREATH AND BEYOND. 12 A. From I Can't Breathe to Fuck Your Breath: The Deaths of Eric Garner and Eric Harris. 12 B. Other Police Killings of Unarmed Black Men (and a Child) Between July 2014 and July 2015. 14 1. The Death of... |
2015 |
Yes |
| Nancy C. Marcus |
Out of Breath and down to the Wire: a Call for Constitution-focused Police Reform |
59 Howard Law Journal 5 (Fall, 2015) |
INTRODUCTION (THE DEATH OF FREDDIE GRAY). 6 I. A BREATHTAKING SNAPSHOT IN TIME: FROM I CAN'T BREATHE TO FUCK YOUR BREATH AND BEYOND. 12 A. From I Can't Breathe to Fuck Your Breath: The Deaths of Eric Garner and Eric Harris. 12 B. Other Police Killings of Unarmed Black Men (and a Child) Between July 2014 and July 2015. 14 1. The Death of; Search Snippet: ...AND DOWN TO THE WIRE: A CALL FOR CONSTITUTION-FOCUSED POLICE REFORM Nancy C. Marcus [FNa1] Copyright (c) 2015 Howard University... |
2015 |
Yes |
| Danielle Evans |
Police Body Cameras: Mending Fences and How Pittsburgh Is a Leading Example |
16 University of Pittsburgh Journal of Technology Law and Policy 76 (Fall, 2015) |
After the police brutality deaths of Michael Brown, Eric Garner, and Freddie Gray, amongst others, many call for increased accountability through police officer body-worn cameras (body cameras or cameras). Body cameras are small cameras, weighing approximately 108 grams, affixed to a police officer's shirt pocket, hat, collar, shoulder, or even... |
2015 |
Yes |
| Joey Dhillon |
Police Body-mounted Cameras: Balancing the Interests of Citizens and the State |
25 Southern California Review of Law & Social Justice 69 (Fall 2015) |
There has been a significant push in the community at large to equip law enforcement officers with body-mounted cameras. This push has come as the result of several high profile cases in the media of officer involved shooting deaths. This note will address both the benefits and drawbacks of such technology, the proceeding social impact of the... |
2015 |
Yes |
| Eric J. Miller |
Police Encounters with Race and Gender |
5 UC Irvine Law Review 735 (November, 2015) |
Introduction. 735 I. Reasonable Encounters?. 738 A. Targeting and Treating Civilians. 739 B. Contestatory Citizens. 744 II. Contesting Encounters. 748 Conclusion. 757 |
2015 |
Yes |
| Nathaniel Bronstein |
Police Management and Quotas: Governance in the Compstat Era |
48 Columbia Journal of Law and Social Problems 543 (Summer, 2015) |
Police department activity quotas reduce police officer discretion and promote the use of enforcement activity for reasons outside of law enforcement's legitimate goals. States across the country have recognized these issues, as well as activity quotas' negative effects on the criminal justice system and community-police relations, and have passed... |
2015 |
Yes |
| Robin G. Steinberg |
Police Power and the Scaring of America: a Personal Journey |
34 Yale Law and Policy Review 131 (Fall 2015) |
In America today, nearly 900, 000 men and women are granted general arrest powers. These officers are increasingly militarized, possessed of automatic weapons and armored vehicles, their departments sporting their own helicopters and boats-- amounting to a small air force and navy tasked with domestic law enforcement. This vast army of law... |
2015 |
Yes |
| L. Song Richardson |
Police Racial Violence: Lessons from Social Psychology |
83 Fordham Law Review 2961 (May, 2015) |
The recent rash of police killing unarmed black men has brought national attention to the persistent problem of policing and racial violence. These cases include the well-known and highly controversial death of Michael Brown in Ferguson, Missouri, as well as the deaths of twelve-year-old Tamir Rice in Cleveland, Ohio; Eric Garner in Staten Island,... |
2015 |
Yes |
| Kenneth Lawson |
Police Shootings of Black Men and Implicit Racial Bias: Can't We All Just Get along |
37 University of Hawaii Law Review 339 (Spring, 2015) |
I am an invisible man. No, I am not a spook like those who haunted Edgar Allen Poe; nor am I one of your Hollywood movie ectoplasms. I am a man of substance, of flesh and bone, fiber and liquids--and I might even be said to possess a mind. I am invisible, understand, simply because people refuse to see me. Like the bodiless heads you see sometimes... |
2015 |
Yes |
| Jeannine Bell |
Police Violence and Ferguson: (En)racing Criminal Procedure |
65 Journal of Legal Education 306 (November, 2015) |
Even if I had wanted to, there is simply no way that I could have avoided discussing the events in Ferguson, Missouri, with my Criminal Procedure Investigation class and maintained any credibility with my students. When Michael Brown was shot to death by police officer Darren Wilson in August 2014 in Ferguson, Missouri, I was preparing to teach a... |
2015 |
Yes |
| Karson Kampfe |
Police-worn Body Cameras: Balancing Privacy and Accountability Through State and Police Department Action |
76 Ohio State Law Journal 1153 (2015) |
I. Introduction. 1154 II. Current Use of Police-Worn Body Cameras. 1156 III. Benefits of Police-Worn Body Cameras. 1161 A. Mutual Benefits. 1162 B. Public Benefits. 1163 C. Police Benefits. 1164 1. Lawsuits and Civil Complaints. 1165 2. Training. 1166 3. Efficiency. 1166 4. Context. 1167 IV. Problems with Police-Worn Body Cameras. 1169 A. Negative... |
2015 |
Yes |
| Ann C. McGinley |
Policing and the Clash of Masculinities |
59 Howard Law Journal 221 (Fall, 2015) |
INTRODUCTION: POLICING, RACE, AND GENDER. 222 I. EMPIRICAL UNDERSTANDINGS OF POLICE BEHAVIOR. 227 A. Use of Force Studies. 227 B. Investigations of Real Police Departments. 229 1. Cleveland, Ohio Division of Police. 229 2. Ferguson, Missouri Police Department. 233 II. MASCULINITIES STUDIES AND CRITICAL RACE THEORY: HEGEMONY, PRIVILEGE, AND... |
2015 |
Yes |
| I. India Geronimo Thusi |
Policing Sex: the Colonial, Apartheid, and New Democracy Policing of Sex Work in South Africa |
38 Fordham International Law Journal 205 (January, 2015) |
INTRODUCTION. 205 I. DUTCH EAST INDIA COMPANY AND SLAVERY. 208 II. BRITISH COLONIAL RULE. 210 A. Colony of Cape of Good Hope. 210 B. Victorian Era. 211 C. Contagious Diseases Acts. 216 D. Colony of Natal. 219 E. The Transvaal and the Mineral Gold Rush. 223 III. UNION OF SOUTH AFRICA. 226 A. Black Peril. 226 B. Sex Worker: The Unreliable Public; Search Snippet: ...INTERNATIONAL LAW JOURNAL Fordham International Law Journal January, 2015 Article POLICING SEX: THE COLONIAL, APARTHEID, AND NEW DEMOCRACY POLICING OF SEX WORK IN SOUTH AFRICA I. India Geronimo Thusi... |
2015 |
Yes |
| Aaron Roussell |
Policing the Anticommunity: Race, Deterritorialization, and Labor Market Reorganization in South Los Angeles |
49 Law and Society Review 813 (December, 2015) |
Recent decades have seen the rise of both community partnerships and the carceral state. Community policing in Los Angeles arose after the 1992 uprisings and was built on two conceptual building blocks--the territorial imperative and community partnership--which remain central more than 20 years later. At the same time, LA has undergone a... |
2015 |
Yes |
| Alec Karakatsanis |
Policing, Mass Imprisonment, and the Failure of American Lawyers |
128 Harvard Law Review Forum 253 (April, 2015) |
It did not surprise me that almost every child in the D.C. public high school class raised a hand when I asked if any of them had been stopped and searched by the police. When I told them that being stopped without reasonable suspicion that they were committing a crime is a violation of the United States Constitution, one of the students corrected... |
2015 |
Yes |
| Charlie Gerstein, J.J. Prescott |
Process Costs and Police Discretion |
128 Harvard Law Review Forum 268 (April, 2015) |
Cities across the country are debating police discretion. Much of this debate centers on public order offenses. These minor offenses are unusual in that the actual sentence violators receive when convicted--usually time already served in detention--is beside the point. Rather, public order offenses are enforced prior to any conviction by... |
2015 |
Yes |
| Robin Lipp |
Protest Policing in New York City: Balancing Safety and Expression |
9 Harvard Law & Policy Review 275 (Winter 2015) |
Protests are the core of political dissent for good reason. It is no secret that political outsiders--those whose views and interests fall outside the ambit of current party politics--face difficulties influencing public policy through formal channels. The increasing necessity of vast-scale fundraising in political campaigns and the mix of... |
2015 |
Yes |
| Mario L. Barnes, School of Law, University of California, Irvine |
Pulled Over: How Police Stops Define Race and Citizenship. By Charles Epp, Steven Maynard-moody, and Donald Haider Markel. Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 2014. 272 Pp. 25.00 Paperback |
49 Law and Society Review 279 (March, 2015) |
It is rare to read a new book that makes important contributions to multiple fields and literatures. It is rarer still when the book addresses the interrelation of race, perceived criminality, and policing--historically fraught affiliations that remain so despite being extensively explored within law and social science research. In Pulled Over: How... |
2015 |
Yes |