The Ethics of Policing : : New Perspectives on Law Enforcement / / ed. by Ben Jones, Eduardo Mendieta.

Top scholars provide a critical analysis of the current ethical challenges facing police officers, police departments, and the criminal justice systemFrom George Floyd to Breonna Taylor, the brutal deaths of Black citizens at the hands of law enforcement have brought race and policing to the forefro...

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Superior document:Title is part of eBook package: De Gruyter EBOOK PACKAGE COMPLETE 2021 English
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Place / Publishing House:New York, NY : : New York University Press, , [2021]
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Year of Publication:2021
Language:English
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Physical Description:1 online resource :; 20 b/w illustrations
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Table of Contents:
  • Frontmatter
  • Contents
  • Introduction: Police Ethics after Ferguson
  • Part I. The Role of Police
  • 1. Clashing Narratives of Policing?
  • 2. Legitimate Policing and Professional Norms
  • 3. Reward and “Real” Police Work
  • Part II. Use of Force
  • 4. Soldiers and Police
  • 5. When Police Do Not Need to Kill
  • 6. Prioritization of Life as a Guiding Principle for Police Use of Deadly Force
  • Part III. Race, Bias, and Resistance
  • 7. Policing Narratives in the Black Counterpublic
  • 8. Police Ethics through Presidential Politics and Abolitionist Struggle
  • Part IV. Policing’s Past and Future
  • 9. Police and Slave Patrols
  • 10. From Protection to Predation
  • 11. Police, Drones, and the Politics of Perception
  • 12. Predictive Policing and the Ethics of Preemption
  • Acknowledgments
  • About the Editors
  • About the Contributors
  • Index