The Impact of Police Killings on the Family and Community of Youth Victims

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1. Auflage 2025
ISBN: 978-1-041-12657-7
Verlag: Taylor & Francis Ltd

Buch, Englisch, 182 Seiten, Format (B × H): 152 mm x 229 mm

This work highlights survivors’ voices in the exploration of police violence and homicide in the United States. Making vital connections between US colonialism, structured and deputized violence, history of policing, and armed resistance by grassroots movements, the authors expand readers’ understanding of the purpose of U.S. policing.

Responding to data that showed that in 2016 and 2017, more than 135 children and teens lost their lives to police violence, the author team traveled to multiple locations across the United States to sit with, learn from, and capture survivors’ stories and experiences. Utilizing in-depth and public interviews, the book presents breathtaking, honest, and heart-wrenching narratives surrounding the impact of youth killed by police on the family, community, and activists. This book makes important connections between colonialism, history of police corruption, and police killings of marginalized groups. Survivors’ narratives provide important nuanced information surrounding the impact of youth killed by police, often with impunity, on friends, family, and loved ones of the victims.

Synthesizing these stories with an overview of the state of policing in the United States, this scholarship extends recommendations and strategies for organizers, activists, students, and scholars to redefine public safety, as well as police power and accountability, in Black, Brown, Indigenous, and poor communities.

Zielgruppe

Postgraduate and Undergraduate Advanced

Autoren/Hrsg.

Outland, Rafael

Noel Jr., Thomas

Fachgebiete

• Sozialwissenschaften Soziologie | Soziale Arbeit Spezielle Soziologie Kriminalsoziologie
• Rechtswissenschaften Öffentliches Recht Verwaltungsrecht Verwaltungspraxis Polizei
• Sozialwissenschaften Politikwissenschaft Regierungspolitik Innen-, Bildungs- und Bevölkerungspolitik
• Rechtswissenschaften Strafrecht Kriminologie, Strafverfolgung
• Rechtswissenschaften Strafrecht Rechtsmedizin, Forensik

Inhaltsverzeichnis

1. A Caution to the Reader: Our Journey that Led to This Work 2. Understanding the History and Purpose of Policing in the U.S.: From Armed Resistance to an Epidemic of Police Killings 3. Groundings with the Families and Communities of Youth Killed by Police 4. Lessons from the Family and Community of Youth Killed by Police 5. Making Sense of the Senseless, Where Do We Go From Here 6. Implications for Our Collective Involvement, Epilogue

Über Autor(innen)

Rafael Outland, PhD, is an assistant professor in the Department of Counseling and School Psychology at Alfred University in Alfred, NY.

Thomas Noel, Jr., PhD, is an assistant professor in the Department of Advanced Studies, Leadership, and Policy at Morgan State University in Baltimore, MD.