Suspect Citizens: What 20 Million Traffic Stops Tell Us About Policing and Race - Softcover

Baumgartner, Frank R.

 
9781108454049: Suspect Citizens: What 20 Million Traffic Stops Tell Us About Policing and Race
Softcover
ISBN 10: 1108454046 ISBN 13: 9781108454049
Publisher: Cambridge University Press, 2018

Synopsis

The costs of racially disparate patterns of police behavior are high, but the crime fighting benefits are low.

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About the Authors

Frank R. Baumgartner holds the Richard J. Richardson Distinguished Professorship at the University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill. He is a leading scholar of public policy and has written extensively on agenda-setting, policy-making, and lobbying. His work on criminal justice includes two previous books on the death penalty.

Derek A. Epp is Assistant Professor of Government at the University of Texas at Austin. In The Structure of Policy Change (forthcoming), he explains how the capacity of governmental institutions to process information affects public policy. He also studies economic inequality with a particular focus on understanding how rising inequality affects government agendas.

Kelsey Shoub is a graduate student in the Department of Government at the University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill. Her research focuses on using publicly available big data to answer questions about what influences policy change, policy outputs, and the context within which they take place.

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Publisher
Cambridge University Press
Publication date
2018
Language
English
ISBN 10 
1108454046
ISBN 13 
9781108454049
Binding
Paperback
Number of pages
294

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