TY - BOOK ID - 77874152 TI - Race and police brutality : roots of an urban dilemma AU - Holmes, Malcolm D. AU - Smith, Brad W. PY - 2008 SN - 143569550X 9781435695504 0791477525 0791476197 9780791477526 PB - Albany : State University of New York Press, DB - UniCat KW - Police brutality KW - Sociology, Urban KW - Minorities KW - Criminology, Penology & Juvenile Delinquency KW - Social Welfare & Social Work KW - Social Sciences KW - Brutality by police KW - Excessive force used by police KW - Excessive use of force by police KW - Police use of excessive force KW - Use of excessive force by police KW - Police misconduct KW - Ethnic minorities KW - Foreign population KW - Minority groups KW - Persons KW - Assimilation (Sociology) KW - Discrimination KW - Ethnic relations KW - Majorities KW - Plebiscite KW - Race relations KW - Segregation KW - Crimes against KW - United States KW - Ethnic relations. UR - https://www.unicat.be/uniCat?func=search&query=sysid:77874152 AB - What causes police brutality, and why are minority citizens the primary victims? Social scientists often attribute the behavior to poorly managed police departments, bad cops, or the interests of the powerful in controlling minorities perceived as criminal threats. Malcolm D. Holmes and Brad W. Smith contend that these explanations fail to identify key causes of police misconduct, particularly the use of excessive force. Focusing on the interaction of ordinary social-psychological processes and the disadvantaged conditions of minority neighborhoods, Holmes and Smith develop an integrated model of police brutality that takes into account contemporary theory and research on social identity, stereotypes, and emotions—factors that produce intergroup tensions and may trigger unwarranted acts of aggression. Their approach overcomes existing theoretical difficulties and raises the question of how this complex social problem might be effectively addressed. ER -