Journal article
"We're Still Dying Quicker Than We Can Effect Change": #BlackLivesMatter and the Limits of 21st-Century Policing Reform
The American journal of sociology, Vol.127(3), pp.867-903
11/01/2021
DOI: 10.1086/717671
Abstract
Black Lives Matter protests in the mid-2010s thrust police violence into the public spotlight, highlighting the stark racial divide in experiences with law enforcement and prompting a wave of police reform. We examine how residents in low-income neighborhoods on the Northside of Minneapolis, Minnesota, made sense of this focus on police violence and reform across racial lines. Drawing on interviews with a diverse sample of 112 adults, we show that there was broad consensus on the social problem of racialized police violence, but Black residents perceived the problem as more severe, more persistent, and in need of more dramatic forms of racial redressment than their white neighbors.
Details
- Title: Subtitle
- "We're Still Dying Quicker Than We Can Effect Change": #BlackLivesMatter and the Limits of 21st-Century Policing Reform
- Creators
- Michelle S. Phelps - Univ Minnesota, Minneapolis, MN 55455 USAChristopher E. Robertson - Univ Minnesota, Minneapolis, MN 55455 USAAmber Joy Powell - Univ Minnesota, Minneapolis, MN 55455 USA
- Resource Type
- Journal article
- Publication Details
- The American journal of sociology, Vol.127(3), pp.867-903
- Publisher
- Univ Chicago Press
- DOI
- 10.1086/717671
- ISSN
- 0002-9602
- eISSN
- 1537-5390
- Number of pages
- 37
- Grant note
- Center for Urban and Regional Affairs (Faculty Interactive Research Program) Ronald E. McNair Scholars Program Sociology Department Robert Wood Johnson Foundation; Robert Wood Johnson Foundation (RWJF) University of Minnesota's Grant-in-Aid of Research, Artistry, and Scholarship program Robert J. Jones Urban Research and Outreach-Engagement Center Beverly and Richard Fink Summer Fellowship Program SES-1946670 / National Science Foundation; National Science Foundation (NSF) Minnesota Population Center
- Language
- English
- Date published
- 11/01/2021
- Academic Unit
- Sociology and Criminology; Center for Social Science Innovation
- Record Identifier
- 9984305974602771
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