Next-Generation Policing Research: Three Propositions

Monica C. Bell

Journal of Economic Perspectives, 2021, vol. 35, issue 4, 29-48

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.

JEL-codes: H76 I31 J15 J45 K14 K42 (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2021
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