Add to ORKGThe well-publicized deaths of several African-Americans—Tamir Rice, Philando Castile, and Alton Sterling among others—at the hands of police stem from tragic interactions predicated upon well-understood practices analyzed by police scholars since the 1950s. The symbolic assailant, a construct created by police scholar Jerome Skolnick in the mid-1960s to identify persons whose behavior and characteristics the police view as threatening, is especially relevant to contemporary policing. This Article explores the societal roots of the creation of a Black symbolic assailant in contemporary American policing. The construction of African-American men as symbolic assailants is one of the most important factors characterizing police interaction with...
The legal policing literature has espoused one theory of policing after another in an effort to addr...
When law enforcement officers, regardless of race and ethnicity, are exposed to messages of Black vi...
After the rebellion over the killing of Michael Brown, the US Justice Department reported that over-...
The well-publicized deaths of several African-Americans—Tamir Rice, Philando Castile, and Alton Ster...
The well-publicized deaths of several African-Americans—Tamir Rice, Philando Castile, and Alton Ster...
In American culture, misrepresentations of black males have been perpetuated throughout the history ...
The tragic death of Elijah McClain—a twenty-three-year-old, slightly built, unarmed African American...
In 2014 and 2015, the news media inundated U.S. society with reports of brutal killings by police of...
This dissertation focuses upon how police officers come to perceive Blacks, specifically young Black...
Violence Against Black Bodies argues that black deaths at the hands of police are just one form of v...
The United States has experienced a series of murders at the hands of the police in recent years, fr...
Beginning the 1960s, police forces in the United States underwent a transformation. In response to t...
The United States has experienced a series of murders at the hands of the police in recent years, fr...
This note discusses race, policing, the use of fatal force, and the Black Lives Matter movement, con...
Both historically and in contemporary times, police violence against African American social movemen...
The legal policing literature has espoused one theory of policing after another in an effort to addr...
When law enforcement officers, regardless of race and ethnicity, are exposed to messages of Black vi...
After the rebellion over the killing of Michael Brown, the US Justice Department reported that over-...
The well-publicized deaths of several African-Americans—Tamir Rice, Philando Castile, and Alton Ster...
The well-publicized deaths of several African-Americans—Tamir Rice, Philando Castile, and Alton Ster...
In American culture, misrepresentations of black males have been perpetuated throughout the history ...
The tragic death of Elijah McClain—a twenty-three-year-old, slightly built, unarmed African American...
In 2014 and 2015, the news media inundated U.S. society with reports of brutal killings by police of...
This dissertation focuses upon how police officers come to perceive Blacks, specifically young Black...
Violence Against Black Bodies argues that black deaths at the hands of police are just one form of v...
The United States has experienced a series of murders at the hands of the police in recent years, fr...
Beginning the 1960s, police forces in the United States underwent a transformation. In response to t...
The United States has experienced a series of murders at the hands of the police in recent years, fr...
This note discusses race, policing, the use of fatal force, and the Black Lives Matter movement, con...
Both historically and in contemporary times, police violence against African American social movemen...
The legal policing literature has espoused one theory of policing after another in an effort to addr...
When law enforcement officers, regardless of race and ethnicity, are exposed to messages of Black vi...
After the rebellion over the killing of Michael Brown, the US Justice Department reported that over-...