E-raamat: Chicago's Reckoning: Racism, Politics, and the Deep History of Policing in an American City

Chicago's Reckoning expertly lays bare the disturbing reality that America's racialized politics of policing and crime are rooted in the continued segregation of African Americans, not only in Chicago but in ghettoized cities throughout the nation. Its masterful analysis trenchantly explains how segregation underlies a tightly coupled system of racial exclusion and containment to sustain mass incarceration and entangle Blacks and Whites within a dysfunctional culture of legal cynicism that benefits neither group and poisons all of American society. * Douglas Massey, Henry G. Bryant Professor of Sociology and Public Affairs, Princeton University * Chicago's Reckoning provides a searing account of police brutality, political cover-up, and the deep disappointment of Black and Brown communities in a system that fails to provide for their safety. Everyday abuse and misconduct by police, concealed and denied by Chicago's political leaders, unfolded in a segregated city that left many young Black men unprotected and fending for themselves. Hagan, McCarthy, and Herda's urgent analysis shows that justice will depend not just on transforming the police, but also the political establishment and racial inequality in which it is embedded. * Bruce Western, Chair, Department of Sociology, Columbia University * Chicago's Reckoning is impressive. I have rarely seen any scholarship that weaves together historical, political, quantitative, cultural, and cognitive analysis in such a thorough and convincing way. * Stephen Vaisey, Professor of Sociology & Political Science, Duke University * Chicago's Reckoning rewrites our sociological understanding of power, corruption, crime, and culture. The authors weave together an unprecedented range of data with Studs Turkel-like storytelling to reveal how Chicago's political machine brutally leveraged criminal law to simultaneously advance the agenda of the White political elites while also excluding and containing Black neighborhoods. Understanding a neighborhood's history of exclusion and containment, the authors argue, should be a central explanatory mechanism in any theory of urban inequality. * Andrew V. Papachristos, Professor of Sociology, Northwestern University *