Thematic Book Review: Police Violence and the Failure of Reform in the Wake of the Movement for Black Lives

Beckett Katherine . 2001. Making Crime Pay: Law and Order in Contemporary American Politics. New York: Oxford University Press.

Bell Monica C. 2017. “Police Reform and the Dismantling of Legal Estrangement Essay.” Yale Law Journal 126:2054–2151. (https://www.jstor.org/stable/45222555).

Bittner Egon . 1970. The Functions of the Police in Modern Society: A Review of Background Factors, Current Practices, and Possible Role Models. Bethesda, MD: National Institute of Mental Health, Center for Studies of Crime and Delinquency.

Blumer Herbert . 1958. “Race Prejudice as a Sense of Group Position.” Pacific Sociological Review 1(1):3–7. doi:10.2307/1388607.

Bonilla-Silva Eduardo . 2006. Racism without Racists: Color-blind Racism and the Persistence of Racial Inequality in the United States. London: Rowman & Littlefield Publishers.

Brame Robert Bushway Shawn D. Paternoster Ray Turner Michael G. 2014. “Demographic Patterns of Cumulative Arrest Prevalence by Ages 18 and 23.” Crime and Delinquency 60(3):471–86. doi:10.1177/0011128713514801.

Carlson Jennifer . 2020. “Police Warriors and Police Guardians: Race, Masculinity, and the Construction of Gun Violence.” Social Problems 67:399–417. doi: 10.1093/socpro/spz020.

Donahue Samuel Thomas . 2023. “The Politics of Police.” American Sociological Review 88(4):656–80. doi:10.1177/00031224231173070.

Epp Charles R. Maynard-Moody Steven Haider-Markel Donald P. 2014. Pulled Over: How Police Stops Define Race and Citizenship. Chicago, IL: University of Chicago Press.

Final Report of the President’s Task Force on 21st Century Policing. 2015. “President’s Task Force on 21st Century Policing.” Office of Community Oriented Policing Services. (https://cops.usdoj.gov/RIC/Publications/cops-p341-pub.pdf).

Friedman Ilana. 2025. “How Grand Jury Secrecy and Bias Protects and Perpetuates Police Impunity.” Oregon Law Review. Forthcoming.

Halpern Stephen C. 1974. “Police Employee Organizations and Accountability Procedures in Three Cities: Some Reflections on Police Policy-making.” Law & Society Review 8(4):561–82. doi:10.2307/3052884.

Hinton E. Cook D. A. 2021. “The Mass Criminalization of Black Americans: A Historical Overview.” Annual Review of Criminology 4(1):261–86.

Kramer Rory Remster Brianna . 2018. “Stop, Frisk, and Assault? Racial Disparities in Police Use of Force during Investigatory Stops: Racial Disparities in Police Use of Force.” Law & Society Review 52(4):960–93. doi:10.1111/lasr.12366.

Krasnicki Daniel . N.d. “The Gentle Art of Violence: American Policing and Brazilian Jiu-Jitsu.” In Progress.

Ray Victor . 2019. “A Theory of Racialized Organizations.” American Sociological Review 84(1):26–53. doi:10.1177/0003122418822335.

Schwartz J. C. 2014. “Police Indemnification.” New York University Law Review 89(3):885–1005.

Schwartz J. C. 2017. “How Qualified Immunity Fails.” Yale Law Journal 127(1):2–77.

Skogan W. G. 2012. “Why Reforms Fail.” Pp. 144–55 in Police Reform from the Bottom Up, edited by Marks M. Sklansky D. London: Routledge.

Stoughton Seth . 2014. “Law Enforcement’s Warrior Problem.” Harvard Law Review Forum 128(225):225–34.