THE IMPORTANCE OF RESEARCH ON RACE AND POLICING: MAKING RACE SALIENT TO INDIVIDUALS AND INSTITUTIONS WITHIN CRIMINAL JUSTICE
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For years, criminologists have directed research efforts at questions at the intersection of race and law enforcement. This has not always been welcomed by practitioners, to put it mildly; rather, many police officers view research focused on race and policing as nothing short of an attempt to paint the policing profession and police officers as racist.\nThis commentary argues that, to the contrary, research into race and policing can still impart to everyone in our society, including police officers and their law enforcement institutions, much that they do not know about how race plays a role in both routine and non-routine police activity. For everything that police believe that they know about race and law enforcement based on their own experience, social science research has taught them much that they do not know - and has addressed many long-held misconceptions of which most officers were not aware. Several examples are discussed.
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Many biases are unconscious and any given decision-maker may be unaware that deeply rooted likes and dislikes are clouding what feels like rational, objective judgment.
“Many biases, moreover, are unconscious and any given decision-maker may be unaware that deeply rooted likes and dislikes are clouding what to that decision-maker feels like rational, objective judgment (Harris, 2007).”
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Many police departments that have confronted issues of racial discrimination head-on have improved police-community relationships.
“Many departments that have confronted these issues head-on have improved police-community relationships (Harris, 2007)”
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- Authors
- HARRIS, D. A.
- Affiliations
- University of Pittsburgh (US)
- Corresponding author
- HARRIS, DAVID A.
- ORCID
- HARRIS, DAVID A.
- Venue
- Criminology & Public Policy
- Publisher
- Informa UK Limited
- Published
- 2007-02
- Volume
- 6
- Issue
- 1
- Pages
- 5-23
- ISSN
- 1538-6473 (ISSN-L)
- 1745-9133
- OpenAlex
- W2105178737
- Cited by
- 32
- References
- 14
- Citations by year
- 2024: 1 · 2023: 1 · 2021: 1 · 2020: 1 · 2019: 1 · 2017: 1 · 2016: 2 · 2015: 6 · 2014: 3 · 2013: 5
- FWCI
- 20.70
- Type
- journal article
- Language
- en
- Open access
- green
- papers.ssrn.com
- Locations
- Criminology & Public Policy (publishedVersion)
- bepress Legal Repository (submittedVersion)
- SSRN Electronic Journal (submittedVersion)
- Topics
- Social Sciences › Political Science and International Relations › Policing Practices and Perceptions
- Social Sciences › Sociology and Political Science › Criminal Justice and Corrections Analysis
- Social Sciences › Education › Education Discipline and Inequality
- Keywords
- race and policing, police officers, racial bias in policing, police training, racial disparities in policing, criminal justice institutions, race salience
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