Race
and Policing in America: Conflict and Reform
Ronald Weitzer and Steven A. Tuch, New York: Cambridge
University Press, 2006.
Race and Policing in America explores how race affects
the relationship between police and citizens. Written by
Ronald Weitzer and Steven Tuch, professors of sociology
at George Washington University in Washington, DC, the book
examines the influence of personal and secondhand experience,
mass media accounts of police activity, and neighborhood
conditions on citizens’ views in four major areas,
including overall satisfaction with city/community police,
police misconduct, police racial discrimination, and evaluation
of and support for reforms in policing.
The authors draw from an extensive review of existing studies
as well as the data from their own NIJ-funded study that
explored the opinions from a national representative survey
of whites, African Americans, and Hispanics. The book’s
findings provide a more complete picture of race and ethnicity
and policing than did earlier, less-inclusive studies.
For more information, visit www.cambridge.org/us/catalogue/
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