Race and police brutality
Subtitle: roots of an urban dilemma
By: Malcolm D. Holmes and Brad W. Smith.
Contributors: Smith, Brad W.
Series: Suny series in deviance and social control
Publisher: State University of New York Press
Published: 2008
Place of publication: Albany, N.Y
Language: eng
Number of pages: 186
ISBN-13: 9780791476192; 9780791476208
Subjects: Police brutality -- United States; Sociology, Urban -- United States; Minorities -- Crimes against -- United States; United States -- Ethnic relations
Notes: Includes bibliographical references and index.
Table of contents: title: The nature of police brutality; title: Social threat and police violence; title: Social identity and ingroup bias; title: Stereotyping and outgroup bias; title: The emotional roots of intergroup relations; title: Translating intergroup biases into intergroup aggression; title: A social, emotional, and cognitive theory of excessive force; title: Can popular policies reduce police brutality?; title: Roots of an urban dilemma.