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COMMUNITY-BASED AND RESTORATIVE-JUSTICE INTERVENTIONS TO REDUCE OVER-POLICING

COMMUNITY-BASED AND RESTORATIVE-JUSTICE INTERVENTIONS TO REDUCE OVER-POLICING COMMUNITY-BASED AND RESTORATIVE-JUSTICE INTERVENTIONS AMERICAN JOURNAL of LAW and EQUALITY COMMUNITY-BASED AND RESTORATIVE-JUSTICE INTERVENTIONS TO REDUCE OVER-POLICING Adriaan Lanni* Residents of marginalized communities suffer simultaneously from “over-policing and underprotection.” The various forms of over-policing are well-documented. Socioeco- nomically disadvantaged neighborhoods are subject to harsh police tactics, such as order-maintenance policing and aggressive investigatory traffic and pedestrian stops not typically experienced in predominantly white and middle-class neighborhoods. Intense police surveillance combined with harsh sentencing policies have led to high incarceration rates that have devastating social and economic effects on these communities. Over- policing and harsh criminal policies tend to erode trust in the police and the criminal jus- tice system more generally. One survey of residents in six low-income communities found that a majority of respondents viewed police as racially and ethnically biased, while fewer than half thought the police acted in a procedurally just way, agreed that their police department met various measures of legitimacy, or agreed that “the laws of our system are *Touroff-Glueck Professor of Law, Harvard Law School. Kevin Bendesky, Ava Cilia and Riley Doyle Evans, and Nicole Fintel provided excellent research assistance. I am indebted to Randall Kennedy, Martha Minow, Carol Steiker, and Matthew Stephenson http://www.deepdyve.com/assets/images/DeepDyve-Logo-lg.png American Journal of Law and Equality MIT Press

COMMUNITY-BASED AND RESTORATIVE-JUSTICE INTERVENTIONS TO REDUCE OVER-POLICING

Lanni, Adriaan
American Journal of Law and Equality , Volume 2: 16 – Aug 15, 2022
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COMMUNITY-BASED AND RESTORATIVE-JUSTICE INTERVENTIONS AMERICAN JOURNAL of LAW and EQUALITY COMMUNITY-BASED AND RESTORATIVE-JUSTICE INTERVENTIONS TO REDUCE OVER-POLICING Adriaan Lanni* Residents of marginalized communities suffer simultaneously from “over-policing and underprotection.” The various forms of over-policing are well-documented. Socioeco- nomically disadvantaged neighborhoods are subject to harsh police tactics, such as order-maintenance policing and aggressive investigatory traffic and pedestrian stops not typically experienced in predominantly white and middle-class neighborhoods. Intense police surveillance combined with harsh sentencing policies have led to high incarceration rates that have devastating social and economic effects on these communities. Over- policing and harsh criminal policies tend to erode trust in the police and the criminal jus- tice system more generally. One survey of residents in six low-income communities found that a majority of respondents viewed police as racially and ethnically biased, while fewer than half thought the police acted in a procedurally just way, agreed that their police department met various measures of legitimacy, or agreed that “the laws of our system are *Touroff-Glueck Professor of Law, Harvard Law School. Kevin Bendesky, Ava Cilia and Riley Doyle Evans, and Nicole Fintel provided excellent research assistance. I am indebted to Randall Kennedy, Martha Minow, Carol Steiker, and Matthew Stephenson

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