Policing through the Lens of American Political Development

Session Submission Type: Full Paper Panel

Session Description

American political development tackles questions about state-building and institutional growth. This session would focus on the development of police institutions as a core facet of what Weaver and Soss call, "the second face of the state". Police institutions are shaped by perceptions of crime and racism over time. This session includes papers following the development of municipal police forces, police unions, and police budgets--spanning the 19th century to the 1990s. This session ultimately presents new research on a contemporary issue that uses methods in APD.

Sub Unit

• Division 7: Politics and History

Individual Presentations

• The Limits of Police Reform: Problem Oriented Policing in Newport News - Jasante Howard, Princeton University

• The Inverse Ideational Development of Police and Teachers’ Unions - Bryan Brentus Green, James Madison University

• Democrats and Despots: Policing and Ideology during Chicago’s Red Summer - Darius Cozart, Princeton University

• State Violence, Street Violence & Reimagining Public Safety - Rebecca U. Thorpe, University of Washington

Chair

• Susanne Schwarz Swarthmore College

Discussant

• Stephanie Saxton Johns Hopkins University