Book contents
- The Cambridge Handbook of Policing in the United States
- The Cambridge Handbook of Policing in the United States
- Copyright page
- Dedication
- Contents
- Figures
- Tables
- Contributors
- Acknowledgments
- Introduction
- Part I The View From the Streets
- Part II Do We Need Public Police?
- Part III The Law of Policing
- Part IV Police Force and Police Violence
- 13 Confrontational Proactive Policing: Benefits, Costs, and Disparate Racial Impacts
- 14 Race, Police, and the Production of Capital Homicides
- 15 What Drives Variation in Killings by Urban Police in the United States: Two Empirical Puzzles
- Part V Discrimination
- Part VI Technology
- Part VII Reform
- Index
- References
14 - Race, Police, and the Production of Capital Homicides
from Part IV - Police Force and Police Violence
Published online by Cambridge University Press: 14 August 2019
- The Cambridge Handbook of Policing in the United States
- The Cambridge Handbook of Policing in the United States
- Copyright page
- Dedication
- Contents
- Figures
- Tables
- Contributors
- Acknowledgments
- Introduction
- Part I The View From the Streets
- Part II Do We Need Public Police?
- Part III The Law of Policing
- Part IV Police Force and Police Violence
- 13 Confrontational Proactive Policing: Benefits, Costs, and Disparate Racial Impacts
- 14 Race, Police, and the Production of Capital Homicides
- 15 What Drives Variation in Killings by Urban Police in the United States: Two Empirical Puzzles
- Part V Discrimination
- Part VI Technology
- Part VII Reform
- Index
- References
Summary
Racial disparities have been endemic to the administration of capital punishment in the US since the nation’s founding (Amsterdam, 2007; Warden and Lennard, 2018).
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- The Cambridge Handbook of Policing in the United States , pp. 268 - 295Publisher: Cambridge University PressPrint publication year: 2019