Course Schedule

Week 1, ⁸⁄₂₃: Contemporary Discourse on Police Reform

• Vitale, A. (2017). Police and the liberal fantasy. Jacobin.

• Cobbina-Dungy, J. E., & Jones-Brown, D. (2023). Too much policing: Why calls are made to defund the police. Punishment & Society, 25(1), 3-20.

• Mangual, R. (2022). Criminal (injustice): What the push for decarceration and depolicing gets wrong and who it hurts most. Center Street.

  • Chapter 5

Week 2, ⁸⁄₃₀: Function of Police

• Bittner, E. (1974). Florence Nightingale in pursuit of Willie Sutton: A theory of the police. In H. Jacob (Ed.), The potential for reform of criminal justice. Sage Publications, Inc.

• Klockars, C. (1985). The idea of police. SAGE Publications, Inc.

  • Chapters 1-3

Week 3, ⁹⁄₆: Police Culture

• Skolnick, J. (1966). Justice without trial: Law enforcement in democratic society. John Wiley.

  • Chapter 3
    

• Van Maanen, J. (1973). Observations on the making of policemen. Human Organization, 32(4), 407-418.

• Herbert, S. (1998). Police subculture reconsidered. Criminology, 36(2), 343-370.

Week 4, ⁹⁄₁₃: No Class

• Get a head start on reading for next week!

Week 5, ⁹⁄₂₀: Stop & Frisk

• Skogan, W. G. (2022). Stop & frisk and the politics of crime in Chicago. Oxford University Press.
  

Week 6, ⁹⁄₂₇: Community and Problem-Oriented Policing

• Skogan, W. G. (2019). Community policing. In D. Weisburd & A. Braga (Eds.), Policing Innovation: Contrasting Perspectives. Cambridge University Press.

• Mastrofski, S. (2019). Community policing: A skeptical view. In D. Weisburd & A. Braga (Eds.), Policing Innovation: Contrasting Perspectives. Cambridge University Press.

• Eck, J. (2019). Why problem-oriented policing. In D. Weisburd & A. Braga (Eds.), Policing Innovation: Contrasting Perspectives. Cambridge University Press.

• Braga, A. & Weisburd, D. (2019). Problem-oriented policing: The disconnect between principles and practice. In D. Weisburd & A. Braga (Eds.), Policing Innovation: Contrasting Perspectives. Cambridge University Press.

Week 7, ¹⁰⁄₄: Broken Windows and Hot Spots Policing

• Sousa, W. & Kelling, G. (2019). Of ‘broken windows’ criminology and criminal justice. In D. Weisburd & A. Braga (Eds.), Policing Innovation: Contrasting Perspectives. Cambridge University Press.

• Taylor, R. (2019). Incivilities reduction policing, zero tolerance, and the retreat from coproduction: Even weaker foundations and stronger pressures. In D. Weisburd & A. Braga (Eds.), Policing Innovation: Contrasting Perspectives. Cambridge University Press.

• Braga, A. & Weisburd, D. (2019). Hot spots policing as a model for police innovation. In D. Weisburd & A. Braga (Eds.), Policing Innovation: Contrasting Perspectives. Cambridge University Press.

• Rosenbaum, D. (2019). The limits of hot spots policing. In D. Weisburd & A. Braga (Eds.), Policing Innovation: Contrasting Perspectives. Cambridge University Press.

Week 8, ¹⁰⁄₁₁: Midterm Exam

• No readings

Week 9, ¹⁰⁄₁₈: Discretion

• Goldstein, H. (1963). Police discretion: The ideal versus the real. Public Administration Review, 23(3), 140-148.

• Bittner, E. (1967). The police on Skid-Row: A study of peace keeping. American Sociological Review, 32(5), 699-715.

• Walker, S. (1992). Taming the system: The control of discretion in criminal justice 1950-1990. Oxford University Press.

  • Chapter 2

Week 10, ¹⁰⁄₂₅: Use of Force

• Lowery, W. (2016). “They can’t kill us all”: The story of the struggle for Black lives. Little, Brown and Company.

• Nix, J. (2020). On the challenges associated with the study of police use of deadly force in the United States: A response to Schwartz & Jahn. PLOS ONE, 15(7), e0236158.

Week 11, ¹¹⁄₁: Procedural Justice

• Tyler, T. & Meares, T. (2019). Procedural justice policing. In D. Weisburd & A. Braga (Eds.), Policing Innovation: Contrasting Perspectives. Cambridge University Press.

• Thacher, D. (2019). The limits of procedural justice. In D. Weisburd & A. Braga (Eds.), Policing Innovation: Contrasting Perspectives. Cambridge University Press.

Week 12, ¹¹⁄₈: Police Misconduct and Accountability

• Chalfin, A., & Kaplan, J. (2021). How many complaints against police officers can be abated by incapacitating a few “bad apples?” Criminology & Public Policy, 20(2), 351-370.

• Sierra-Arevalo, M., & Papachristos, A. (2021).Bad apples and incredible certitude. Criminology & Public Policy, 20(2), 371-381.

• Chalfin, A., & Kaplan, J. (2021). Reply to Sierra-Arevalo and Papachristos (2021).

Week 13, ¹¹⁄₁₅: ASC Conference - No class

• Get a head start on reading for Week 15!

Week 14, ¹¹⁄₂₂: Thanksgiving Break - No class

• Keep reading for Week 15!

Week 15, ¹¹⁄₂₉: Militarization

• Balko, R. (2014). Rise of the Warrior Cop: The Militarization of America’s Police Forces. PublicAffairs.

• Klinger, D. A., & Rojek, J. (2008). Multi-method study of special weapons and tactics teams. National Institute of Justice (Report No. 223855).

Week 16, ¹²⁄₆: Consent Decrees

• U.S. Department of Justice (2023). Investigation of the City of Minneapolis and the Minneapolis Police Department.

• Savolainen, J. & Wright, J. P. (2023). Maligning Minneapolis. City Journal.

Week 17, ¹²⁄₁₃: Final Exam

• No readings

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