| Suspect Citizens: What 20 Million Traffic Stops Tell Us about Policing and Race Contributor(s): Baumgartner, Frank R. (Author), Epp, Derek A. (Author), Shoub, Kelsey (Author) |
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ISBN: 1108454046 ISBN-13: 9781108454049 Publisher: Cambridge University Press OUR PRICE: $24.29 Product Type: Paperback - Other Formats Published: July 2018 |
| Additional Information |
| BISAC Categories: - Political Science | Law Enforcement - Social Science | Discrimination & Race Relations - Political Science | American Government - General |
| Dewey: 363.230 |
| LCCN: 2018003783 |
| Physical Information: 0.7" H x 5.9" W x 8.9" (0.90 lbs) 292 pages |
| Descriptions, Reviews, Etc. |
| Publisher Description: Suspect Citizens offers the most comprehensive look to date at the most common form of police-citizen interactions, the routine traffic stop. Throughout the war on crime, police agencies have used traffic stops to search drivers suspected of carrying contraband. From the beginning, police agencies made it clear that very large numbers of police stops would have to occur before an officer might interdict a significant drug shipment. Unstated in that calculation was that many Americans would be subjected to police investigations so that a small number of high-level offenders might be found. The key element in this strategy, which kept it hidden from widespread public scrutiny, was that middle-class white Americans were largely exempt from its consequences. Tracking these police practices down to the officer level, Suspect Citizens documents the extreme rarity of drug busts and reveals sustained and troubling disparities in how racial groups are treated. |
Contributor Bio(s): Baumgartner, Frank R.: - Frank R. Baumgartner holds the Richard J. Richardson Distinguished Professorship at the University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill. He is a leading scholar of public policy and has written extensively on agenda-setting, policy-making, and lobbying. His work on criminal justice includes two previous books on the death penalty.Shoub, Kelsey: - Kelsey Shoub is a graduate student in the Department of Government at the University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill. Her research focuses on using publicly available big data to answer questions about what influences policy change, policy outputs, and the context within which they take place. |
