Date: Friday, August 9

Time: 12:30 PM - 2:10 PM

THEMATIC

Session 015: Racism, Policing, and Policy Change
Room: Joyce

Sponsor: Program Committee

Organizer: Raja Staggers-Hakim, University of Connecticut

Presiders: Raja Staggers-Hakim, University of Connecticut
Johnny Eric Williams, Trinity College

Description: 

National policing practices, especially those strategies and tactics used in Black and Brown communities, require deep analysis and change. In an effort to build the knowledge base around best practices to establish fair and humane policing practices or to reinvent policies and practices around policing, this session will critically examine policies and legislation proposed over the last decade in the United States and abroad. Panelists will address harmful police practices that target and terrorize communities of color, policy practices and tactics used by police that require change, and/or, policy options that have been proposed or adopted to eliminate harmful police practices. 

Papers:

“Anti-Black and Blue: Neighborhood Identity and Local Racial Ideologies in Chicago’s Police Enclaves,” Anna D. Fox, The University of Chicago, Winner of the Crime and Juvenile Delinquency Division’s Student Paper Competition

“Color, Race, and Interactions with the Criminal Justice System beyond the Black-white Binary,” Kemi Johnson Pratt, Texas Woman's University

“Institutional Violence: A Multiple Method Study on the Effects of Policing on the Mental Health of African Americans at a Mid-western City,” Robert L. Peralta and Daniela Jauk-Ajamie, The University of Akron

“Police Surveillance Technology and Emotions in the Bronx, New York,” Katherine Gregory, New York City College of Technology, CUNY, Mia Budescu and Martin J. Downing, Lehman College, CUNY

“The Relational Racialization of Docility and Danger: Examining How Cues of Categories Underpin Race Making in Police-civilian Encounters,” Darwin A. Baluran, The Ohio State University

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