Lori Beth Way, "Hunting for "Dirtbags": Why Cops Over-Police the Poor and Racial Minorities"
English | ISBN: 1555538134 | 2013 | 216 pages | EPUB | 509 KB
This ethnographic study, which includes participant observation research and in-depth interviews with police officers in a major California city and a large East Coast city, explores how police officers use their discretionary time on the job-and the consequences. Providing highly textured insights into police discretion, the authors show that America's "tough on crime" approach to justice has too often proved to be a smoke screen for controlling people deemed undesirable, rather than a genuinely effective strategy for reducing crime.