Journal of Economic Perspectives
ISSN 0895-3309 (Print) | ISSN 1944-7965 (Online)
Next-Generation Policing Research: Three Propositions
Journal of Economic Perspectives
vol. 35,
no. 4, Fall 2021
(pp. 29–48)
(Complimentary)
Abstract
The Black Lives Matter movement has operated alongside a growing recognition among social scientists that policing research has been limited in its scope and outmoded in its assumptions about the nature of public safety. This essay argues that social science research on policing should reorient its conception of the field of policing, along with how the study of crime rates and police departments fit into this field. New public safety research should broaden its outcomes of interest, its objects of inquiry, and its engagement with structural racism. In this way, next-generation research on policing and public safety can respond to the deficiencies of the past and remain relevant as debates over transforming American policing continue.Citation
Bell, Monica C. 2021. "Next-Generation Policing Research: Three Propositions." Journal of Economic Perspectives, 35 (4): 29–48. DOI: 10.1257/jep.35.4.29Additional Materials
JEL Classification
- H76 State and Local Government: Other Expenditure Categories
- I31 General Welfare; Well-Being
- J15 Economics of Minorities, Races, Indigenous Peoples, and Immigrants; Non-labor Discrimination
- J45 Public Sector Labor Markets
- K14 Criminal Law
- K42 Illegal Behavior and the Enforcement of Law
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