Research Guides: Black Lives Matter: Critical perspectives on Blackness, State Sanctioned Violence, Activism and Resistance: Race and Policing

Race and Policing

Police Brutality by Helen Cothran
Call Number: HV8141 .P57 2001
ISBN: 0737705159
Publication Date: 2001-01-01
Race, Ethnicity, and Policing by Stephen K. Rice (Editor); Michael D. White (Editor)
Call Number: HV7936.R3
ISBN: 9780814776155
Publication Date: 2010-03-15
Readings on race and ethnicity and policing
Race and Police Brutality by Malcolm D. Holmes; Brad W. Smith
Call Number: HV8141 .H595 2008eb
ISBN: 9781435695504
Publication Date: 2008-01-01
Essays on the nature of police brutality and the interaction between social identity, stereotyping and bias and excessive force.

Mapping Police Violence
A project to map police violence across the United States
The Police Officer's Dilemma: A decade of research on racial bias in the decision to shoot
Correll, J., Hudson, S. M., Guillermo, S., & Ma, D. S. (2014). The Police Officer's Dilemma: A Decade of Research on Racial Bias in the Decision to Shoot. Social & Personality Psychology Compass, 8(5), 201-213. doi:10.1111/spc3.12099
Police Use of Force Policy
A project to collect data on police polices regarding Use of Force
Who Are Police Killing?
Center on Juvenile and Criminal Justice article circa 2014

The Final Report of the President's Task Force on 21st Century Policing

Research and Reports

Black Stats by Monique W. Morris; Khalil Gibran Muhammad (Introduction by)
Call Number: E185.86 .M637 2014
ISBN: 9781595589262
Publication Date: 2014-01-28
"Black Stats-- a comprehensive guide filled with contemporary facts and figures on African Americans-- is an essential reference for anyone attempting to fathom the complex state of our nation. With fascinating and often surprising information on everything from incarceration rates, lending practices, and the arts to marriage, voting habits, and green jobs, the contextualized material in this book will better attune readers to telling trends while challenging commonly held, yet often misguided, perceptions. "

Discrimination and implicit bias in a racially unequal society
Banks, R. R., Eberhardt, J. L., & Ross, L. (2006). Discrimination and Implicit Bias in a Racially Unequal Society. California Law Review, (4). 1169.
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The article discusses two bodies of social psychological research, the criminal justice system and racial bias, used in investigating the nature of the consensus opposition to bias and discrimination. The study on criminal justice focuses on issues of racial profiling, the use of lethal force and criminal sentencing while racial bias study aims to measure implicit bias beyond conscious awareness of an individual. Anti-discrimination principle and racism relocated the meaning of racial equality.
Looking Deathworthy
Eberhardt, J. L., Davies, P. G., Purdie-Vaughns, V. J., & Johnson, S. L. (2006). Looking Deathworthy. Psychological Science (0956-7976), 17(5), 383-386. doi:10.1111/j.1467-9280.2006.01716.x
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Researchers previously have investigated the role of race in capital sentencing, and in particular, whether the race of the defendant or victim influences the likelihood of a death sentence. In the present study, we examined whether the likelihood of being sentenced to death is influenced by the degree to which a Black defendant is perceived to have a stereotypically Black appearance.
The Kirwan Institute for the Study of Race and Ethnicity
The Kirwan institute at Ohio State University
Research on race and ethnicity with a policy oriented focus.
The Black Youth Project
Ten years of research data on young people in the United States, key reports on black youth and black millennials.
Implicit Bias Test
Project Implicit is a non-profit organization and international collaboration between researchers who are interested in implicit social cognition - thoughts and feelings outside of conscious awareness and control. The goal of the organization is to educate the public about hidden biases and to provide a “virtual laboratory” for collecting data on the Internet.

The Central Park Five

" In 1989, five black and Latino teenagers from Harlem were arrested and later convicted of raping a white woman in New York City's Central Park. They spent between 6 and 13 years in prison before a serial rapist confessed that he alone had committed the crime, leading to their convictions being overturned. Set against a backdrop of a decaying city beset by violence and racial tension, Ken Burns tells the story of that horrific crime, the rush to judgment by the police, a media clamoring for sensational stories and an outraged public, and the five lives upended by this miscarriage of justice. "

Ken Burns: The Central Park five [Video file]. (2012). In Films On Demand. Retrieved July 14, 2016, from http://fod.infobase.com/PortalPlaylists.aspx?wID=114464&xtid=58774

Ken Burns The Central Park Five

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