The most recent vol­ume of Criminology & Public Policy exam­ines the top­ic of race and polic­ing. Contributors to this spe­cial vol­ume offer time­ly insights in this con­tro­ver­sial area, with most agree­ing that more can be done to address the long-stand­ing ten­sion between street offi­cers and com­mu­ni­ties of col­or.

The arti­cles fea­tured in the jour­nal are ​“The Importance of Research on Race and Policing: Making Race Salient to Individuals and Institutions Within Criminal Justice” by David A. Harris, ​“Investigating Racial Profiling by the Miami-Dade Police Department: A Multimedia Approach” by Geoffrey P. Alpert, Roger G. Dunham, and Michael R. Smith, “ ​‘Police Don’t Like Black People’: African-American Young Men’s Accumulated Police Experiences” by Rod K. Brunson, and ​“The Race/​Ethnicity Disparity in Misdemeanor Marijuana Arrests in New York City” by Andrew Golub, Bruce D. Johnson, and Eloise Dunlap. The reac­tion essays include ​“Incorporating Latinos and Immigrants into Policing Research” by Ramiro Martinez, Jr., ​“Racial Profiling — Then and Now” by Jermone Skolnick, ​“Forever the Sympolic Assailant: The More Things Change, the More They Stay the Same” by Delores Jones-Brown, ​“Either They Don’t Know or They Don’t Care: Black Males and Negative Police Experiences” by Eric A. Stewart, and ​“Reefer Madness: Broken Windows Policing and Misdemeanor Marijuana Arrests in New York City, 1989 – 2000” by Bernard E. Harcourt and Jens Ludwig. The jour­nal also includes an intro­duc­tion by Katherine Russell-Brown of the University of Florida.

6 Criminology & Public Policy 1 (February 2007). See Race and Resources.


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