Policing the Second Amendment - by Jennifer Carlson (Hardcover)
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<p/><br></br><p><b> About the Book </b></p></br></br>"An urgent look at the relationship between the politics of guns, race, and policing in America today"--<p/><br></br><p><b> Book Synopsis </b></p></br></br><p><b>An urgent look at the relationship between guns, the police, and race</b> <p/>The United States is steeped in guns, gun violence--and gun debates. As arguments rage on, one issue has largely been overlooked--Americans who support gun control turn to the police as enforcers of their preferred policies, but the police themselves disproportionately support gun rights over gun control. Yet who do the police believe should get gun access? When do they pursue aggressive enforcement of gun laws? And what part does race play in all of this? <i>Policing the Second Amendment</i> unravels the complex relationship between the police, gun violence, and race. Rethinking the terms of the gun debate, Jennifer Carlson shows how the politics of guns cannot be understood--or changed--without considering how the racial politics of crime affect police attitudes about guns. <p/>Drawing on local and national newspapers, interviews with close to eighty police chiefs, and a rare look at gun licensing processes, Carlson explores the ways police talk about guns, and how firearms are regulated in different parts of the country. Examining how organizations such as the National Rifle Association have influenced police perspectives, she describes a troubling paradox of guns today--while color-blind laws grant civilians unprecedented rights to own, carry, and use guns, people of color face an all-too-visible system of gun criminalization. This racialized framework--undergirding who is "a good guy with a gun" versus "a bad guy with a gun"--informs and justifies how police understand and pursue public safety. <p/><i>Policing the Second Amendment</i> demonstrates that the terrain of gun politics must be reevaluated if there is to be any hope of mitigating further tragedies.</p><p/><br></br><p><b> Review Quotes </b></p></br></br><br>Chilling and insightful. . . .Carlson succinctly argues that attitudes about race, most specifically attitudes about African Americans, overwhelm rational debates about law gun use, gun ownership, and the 2nd Amendment itself, specifically within the law enforcement community. Importantly, Carlson brings together an academically rigorous analysis with clear and engaging writing accessible to a wide-ranging audience. For those willing to engage in good-faith debates about gun policy, Carlson's work provides helpful insights and perspectives.<b>---Staci L. Beavers, <i>Law and Politics Book Review</i></b><br><br>Co-Winner of the Distinguished Book Award, Sociology of Law Section of the American Sociological Association<br><br>This book provides a warning to those police scholars who tend to blindly embrace community policing as the panacea of police reform and an answer to racially biased policing.<b>---David E. Barlow, <i>Ethnic and Racial Studies</i></b><br><br>[E]xamines how the National Rifle Association became a driving influence behind American policing for over a century, and emerges with the idea that policing America has not overcome its racially charged beginning.<b>---RJ Young, <i>New York Times Book Review</i></b><br><br>No one who reads this [book] will doubt that the Second Amendment has particularly deadly dimensions in minority communities.-- "Kirkus Reviews"<br><p/><br></br><p><b> About the Author </b></p></br></br><b>Jennifer Carlson</b> is associate professor of sociology as well as government and public policy at the University of Arizona. She is the author of <i>Citizen-Protectors: The Everyday Politics of Guns in an Age of Decline. </i>Her writing has appeared in such publications as the <i>Los Angeles Times</i>, the <i>Wall Street Journal</i>, and the <i>Washington Post</i>. She lives in Tucson, Arizona. Twitter @jdawncarlson
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