A City Divided: Race, Fear and the Law in Police Confrontations
A City Divided tells the story of the case involving 18-year-old Jordan Miles and three Pittsburgh police officers. David Harris, a resident of Pittsburgh and the Sally Ann Semenko Chair at the University of Pittsburgh School of Law, describes what happened, explaining how a case that began with a young black man walking around the block in his own neighborhood turned Pittsburgh inside out, resulted in two investigations of the police officers and two federal trials. Harris, who has written, published and conducted research at the intersection of race, criminal justice and the law for almost thirty years, explains not just what happened but w…
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Produktdetails
- ISBN: 978-1-78527-115-1
- EAN: 9781785271151
- Produktnummer: 33326629
- Verlag: Anthem Press
- Sprache: Englisch
- Erscheinungsjahr: 2020
- Seitenangabe: 354 S.
- Plattform: EPUB
- Masse: 2'908 KB
- Auflage: 1. Auflage
Über den Autor
David A. Harris, leading expert on racial profiling in the United States, is the Sally Ann Semenko Chair at the University of Pittsburgh School of Law, USA. His work on police, public safety and the law includes his books Failed Evidence: Why Law Enforcement Resists Science (2012), Good Cops: The Case for Preventive Policing (2005) and Profiles in Injustice: Why Racial Profiling Cannot Work (2002).
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