Stereotypes are ingrained in the fabric of the USA and coincide with the institution of slavery.
The expected behaviors of African-Americans are fueled by stereotypes maintained by the …

Schools today are more frequently using punitive discipline practices to control student
behavior, despite the greater effectiveness of community-building techniques on compliance …

Research Summary This study examined 40 African‐American young men's direct and
vicarious experiences with police harassment and violence, and their impact on perceptions …

Tests of the racial threat hypothesis, linking the racial composition of place to various
measures of social control, find that where there are greater percentages of blacks, more …

What, if any, changes have occurred in the nation's police departments 21 years after the
Rodney King beating? To answer this question, this study examined findings provided by …

Police violence is a pressing public health problem. To gauge the illness associations of
police killings–the most severe form of police brutality, we compile a unique multilevel …

Following the high-profile deaths of eighteen-year-old Michael Brown in Ferguson, Missouri,
and twenty-five-year-old Freddie Gray in Baltimore, Maryland, both cities erupted in protest …

People of colour living in disadvantaged urban communities have been shown to be the
disproportionate recipients of both proactive policing strategies and various forms of police …

Purpose While there has been a sizeable amount of research on identifying the correlates of
citizen satisfaction with police agencies, that research has not been synthesized to identify …

2010 Distinguished Contribution to Scholarship Book Award from the American Sociological
Association; Race, Gender, and Class Section 2008 Finalist, The Society for the Study of …