Thursday, June 15, 2017

Pg. 99: Robert E. Worden & Sarah McLean's "Mirage of Police Reform"

Featured at the Page 99 Test: Mirage of Police Reform: Procedural Justice and Police Legitimacy by Robert E. Worden and Sarah McLean.

About the book, from the publisher:
In the United States, the exercise of police authority—and the public’s trust that police authority is used properly—is a recurring concern. Contemporary prescriptions for police reform hold that the public would better trust the police and feel a greater obligation to comply and cooperate if police-citizen interactions were marked by higher levels of procedural justice by police.

In this book, Robert E. Worden and Sarah J. McLean argue that the procedural justice model of reform is a mirage. From a distance, procedural justice seemingly offers a relief from strained police-community relations. But a closer look at police organizations and police-citizen interactions shows that the relief offered by such reform is, in fact, illusory.
Learn more about Mirage of Police Reform the University of California Press.

The Page 99 Test: Mirage of Police Reform.

--Marshal Zeringue