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Winner, 2024 Distinguished Book Award, Sociology of Law Section, American Sociological Association
Winner, 2024 Outstanding Book Award, Division of Policing, American Society of Criminology
Policing is violent. And its violence is not distributed equally: stark racial disparities persist despite decades of efforts to address them. Amid public outcry and an…
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