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Law Enforcement Agencies’ College Education Hiring Requirements And Racial Differences In Police-Related Fatalities, Thaddeus Johnson, Natasha N. Johnson, William Sabol, David T. Snively
Law Enforcement Agencies’ College Education Hiring Requirements And Racial Differences In Police-Related Fatalities, Thaddeus Johnson, Natasha N. Johnson, William Sabol, David T. Snively
CJC Publications
This study examines the effects of agency education requirements on racial differences in police-related fatalities (PRFs) across 235 large U.S. cities between 2000 and 2016. We estimated Poisson pseudo-maximum likelihood (PPML) regression models with multiple fixed effects using data from the Fatal Encounters database, Bureau of Justice Statistics’ Law Enforcement Management and Administrative Statistics survey, and other publicly available databases. Results show that adopting agency college degree requirements is generally associated with decreases in PRFs over time, with significant reductions observed for PRFs of Black citizens. Our study suggests mandating at least an associate’s degree for entry-level officers should equate …
Changing The Game: A Sociological Perspective On Police Reform, James Nolan, Joshua C. Hinkle, Zsolt Molnar
Changing The Game: A Sociological Perspective On Police Reform, James Nolan, Joshua C. Hinkle, Zsolt Molnar
CJC Publications
This chapter examines the sociological roots of the current problems in contemporary policing. Employing Pierre Bourdieu’s concepts of field, habitus, capital, and doxa the chapter begins by highlighting the cultural mechanisms that maintain and reproduce ineffective policing practices. In an example from Wilmington, Delaware in the United States, the authors show how the ‘game’ on the field of policing focusses primarily on law enforcement outputs. This game shapes the worldview and dispositions of officers (habitus). Police officers are recognised and rewarded (capital) for acting in ways that align with the game’s logic. This process creates the condition doxa, in which …