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OverviewA public health approach to understanding and eliminating excessive police violence. Excessive police violence and its disproportionate targeting of minority communities has existed in the United States since police forces first formed in the colonial period. A personal tragedy for its victims, for the people who love them, and for their broader communities, excessive police violence is also a profound violation of human and civil rights. Most public discourse about excessive police violence focuses, understandably, on the horrors of civilian deaths. In From Enforcers to Guardians, Hannah L. F. Cooper and Mindy Thompson Fullilove approach the issue from a radically different angle: as a public health problem. By using a public health framing, this book challenges readers to recognize that the suffering created by excessive police violence extends far outside of death to include sexual, psychological, neglectful, and nonfatal physical violence as well. Arguing that excessive police violence has been deliberately used to marginalize working-class and minority communities, Cooper and Fullilove describe what we know about the history, distribution, and health impacts of police violence, from slave patrols in colonial times to war on drugs policing in the present-day United States. Finally, the book surveys efforts, including Barack Obama's 2015 creation of the Task Force on 21st Century Policing, to eliminate police violence, and proposes a multisystem, multilevel strategy to end marginality and police violence and to achieve guardian policing. Aimed at anyone seeking to understand the causes and distributions of excessive police violence—and to develop interventions to end it—From Enforcers to Guardians frames excessive police violence so that it can be understood, researched, and taught about through a public health lens. Full Product DetailsAuthor: Hannah L. F. Cooper (Associate Professor and Vice Chair, Emory University's Rollins School of Public Health) , Mindy Thompson Fullilove (Professor of Urban Policy and Health, The New School)Publisher: Johns Hopkins University Press Imprint: Johns Hopkins University Press Dimensions: Width: 15.20cm , Height: 2.30cm , Length: 22.90cm Weight: 0.499kg ISBN: 9781421436449ISBN 10: 1421436442 Pages: 280 Publication Date: 10 March 2020 Audience: Professional and scholarly , Professional & Vocational Format: Hardback Publisher's Status: Active Availability: To order  Stock availability from the supplier is unknown. We will order it for you and ship this item to you once it is received by us. Table of ContentsList of Illustrations Preface Timeline Chapter 1. Coming to Terms Part I. Distorted Policing and Its Origins Chapter 2. Peelers and Slave Patrols Chapter 3. Community Collapse Chapter 4. War on Drugs Part II. Measuring Distorted Policing and Its Effects Chapter 5. Public Health Investigations Chapter 6. Pattern and Practice Investigations I: Distorted Policing in Urban Contexts 000 Chapter 7. Pattern and Practice Investigations II: Types of Violence Documented 000 Part III. Getting to Guardianship Chapter 8. Interventions That Have Been Tried Chapter 9. A Magic Strategy Conclusion. Moving Forward Acknowledgments Notes Bibliography IndexReviewsMany public health readers of From Enforcers to Guardians will come away with the centrality of better data to improve transparency and accountability. This book meets a critical need that sets public health on a path to fewer lives cut short, the goal of our field. It also creates room for additional conversations to address what is still missing. That is why it is such an important book. -- Mary T. Bassett MD, MPH * American Journal of Public Health * Author InformationHannah L. F. Cooper, ScD is a professor within Emory University's Rollins School of Public Health, where she holds the Rollins Chair in Substance Use Disorders Research. Mindy Thompson Fullilove, MD is a professor of urban policy and health at The New School. She is the author of Urban Alchemy: Restoring Joy in America's Sorted-Out Cities. Tab Content 6Author Website:Countries AvailableAll regions |
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