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.
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