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""Thai shows the power of high-quality ethnography to explore the contradictions at the heart of junior police academies and the larger endeavor of community policing. Throughout, she centers the struggles, compromises, and uncertainties of young people trying to make their way through life in a challenging social environment."" -- Alex S. Vitale, Brooklyn College

""Thai shows the power of high-quality ethnography to explore the contradictions at the heart of junior police academies and the larger endeavor of community policing. Throughout, she centers the struggles, compromises, and uncertainties of young people trying to make their way through life in a challenging social environment."" -- Alex S. Vitale, Brooklyn College ""Through a powerful ethnographic study, Thai shows us the insidious ways that schools and community policing intersect. In doing so, Thai takes on an urgent question: how do young people--whose communities are brutalized by police violence--become invested in policing as an institution? Thai—an excellent sociological storyteller--tells us some of the answers through the urgent voices of the young people."" -- Ranita Ray, author of 'Slow Violence: Confronting Dark Truths in the American Classroom' ""At a time when debates over policing are sharply polarized, Kid Cops offers a deeply original and nuanced look at how junior police academies attract schools and students through promises of mentorship and mobility. Thai’s study reorients how we think about police–youth relationships in schools, moving beyond arrests and suspensions to reveal how programs meant to inspire opportunity can still reinforce new forms of social control."" -- Tony Cheng, author of 'The Policing Machine: Enforcement, Endorsements, and the Illusion of Public Input'

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Mai Thai is assistant professor of sociology at Occidental College.  

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