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Showing 1 to 20 of 52 for “"police brutality"”.
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How Social Media Effects College Students’ Perceptions of Police Brutality
In the past few years, police brutality and excessive use of force has been one of the most prevalent social issues facing our society. Specific cases such as the ones involving Michael Brown, Eric Garner, and Freddie Gray has garnered national attention, and sparked widespread controversy. The …
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Whatever Force Necessary: The Politics of Police Brutality In the Post-Jim Crow South, 1968-1971
<p>On October 15, 1971, Memphis police officers beat Elton Hayes, a seventeen-year old black youth, to death. The incident sparked a riotous upheaval in Memphis, echoing the dramatic days of the Sanitation Strike and aftermath of Martin Luther King Jr.'s assassination in 1968. In the days of civil …
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A Psychological Perspective on Police Brutality: Current Statistics, Characteristics, and Trends Regarding Excessive Use of Force
… was to utilize a psychological perspective on police brutality to identify current statistics, characteristics, and trends concerning excessive use of force. There were four fundamental goals of this literature review: (a) examine current statistics, characteristics, and trends regarding …
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The Impact of Servant Leadership and Christ-Centered Followership On the Problem of Police Brutality Against Minorities
… leadership can shape individual officers and the police subculture. This new model can uphold a Christian deontological ethic—an ethic of duty grounded in peacekeeping informed by the imago Dei, reconciliation, and meekness—for law enforcement that in tandem organically supports methodologies and …
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"What if We're on the Wrong Side?": Police Brutality, Protest, and Player Culpability in Heavy Rain and Detroit: Become Human
… these two narratives are steeped in themes of police brutality, systemic racism, and protest, the way a player shapes a story does not exist in a relatively “moral-free” vacuum. Rather, the legal and social precedents that are often used to absolve police misconduct of blame by indicating an …
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Race and Contact at Play: Understanding Blacks’ Experiences and Perceptions with Law Enforcement
… has remained strained, raising concerns about police legitimacy, fairness and trustworthiness. A long-standing history of systemic racial discrimination, marked by police brutality and racial profiling, has disproportionately targeted Black communities, leaving deep social scars that continue …
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The roots and influences of radical Black women in the 21st century
… the United States. Black women’s experiences of police violence at the intersections of gender, race, and class, particularly, have helped to create radical critiques of the system of white supremacy and police brutality. My thesis explores these experiences from the Civil Rights Movement to the …
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Providing For Our Communities, Protecting Our Race, Proving Ourselves: African American Activism and Protest In Depression Era New Orleans
<p>On February 10, 1930, Charles Guerand, a white police officer, killed a fourteen-year-old African American girl named Hattie McCray in a New Orleans restaurant when she refused to consent to a sexual relationship after repeated coercion. In response, three African American organizations, the New …
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A Critical Examination of Zambia's Democratic Performance since 1991
… the peaceful transfer of power after elections, police brutality is rampant. Those with divergent views are not spared and suffer at the hands of police using the Public Order Act in instances of ‘breach of peace' and as an excuse for maintaining ‘public order'. Zambia continues to have a poor …
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Schooling in the Afterlives: Neoliberalism, Anti-Blackness, and Fugitive Pedagogies in Black Education
… wide-spread protests against systemic racism and police brutality, leading to various corporate and institutional responses, including those in the public education sector. Many charter schools that once upheld harmful punitive rules and policies known as “no excuses” did away with them, …
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Affective attunement and counter-power affordances of Twitter to the 2020 #EndSARS protests in Nigeria
… the outcomes of the protests in addressing police brutality in Nigeria. The findings suggest that Twitter played a significant role in the mobilization and organization of the protests, and that affective attunement and counter-power affordances were key factors in the success of the …
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Faith in Violence: Race and the Punitive Paradigm
… the forefront of politics by recurring acts of police brutality. In the wake of George Floyd’s murder, massive uprisings in support of racial justice swept over the United States and then the world. Although George Floyd’s murder was the catalyst of international demonstrations, the protests …
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Corporate Donations to Social Justice: The Influence of Board Diversity
In wake of recent protests against police brutality and racial inequality, supporters of the Black Lives Matter movement have placed great pressure on major corporations to act. While existing literature has recognized that external events influence organizational decisions (Morgeson et al., 2015), …
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Respect for human rights and the rise of democratic policing in Turkey: Adoption and diffusion of the European Union acquis in the Turkish National Police.
… Union acquis adoption in the Turkish National Police. The research employed the Diffusion of Innovations, Democratic Policing, and historical background check theoretical frameworks to study the decision-making of the TNP regarding reforms after 2003 as a qualitative case study which …
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“WHERE DO WE GO FROM HERE?” THE INFLUENCE OF PERSONALITY AND SOCIAL MOTIVATORS ON ATTITUDES TOWARD STRUCTURAL VIOLENCE AND INTERPERSONAL FORGIVENESS
… are struggling to address issues like the police brutality experienced by African American populations or women’s lived experience of sexual abuse and harassment. Forgiveness can play a role in many conflicts, what can it do in these cases? From intractable global and political disputes to …
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What Effects Body Worn Cameras Worn by Law Enforcement had on Society
… racial and value issues. Questions regarding brutality and unjust treatment by members of law enforcement towards minorities began to become more observed. March 2015 saw President Barack Obama’s Taskforce on 21st Century Policing begin to address this issue in their interim report. The task …
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Memory, Margins, and Materiality: The Philadelphia MOVE Bombing
… watched a live news broadcast as a police officer tossed a duffel bag full of plastic explosives onto the roof of an occupied rowhome in a Black, middle-class West Philadelphia neighborhood. The bombing and the decision to allow the fire to burn killed five children and six adults – …
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Assessing the implementation of neoliberal policies in the city of Johannesburg Metropolitan Municipality: challenges of service delivery
… insecurities linked to protest violence and police brutality; and governance with a specific focus on the townships and informal settlements (urban peripheries), specifically focusing on the City of Johannesburg Metropolitan Municipality. The City of Johannesburg has faced the challenge of …
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Sọ̀rọ̀-sókè: Unveiling the theatrics of justice and resistance in Nigeria's #EndSARS movement
… anthem, capturing the collective outcry against police brutality, particularly the abuses of the Special Anti-Robbery Squad (SARS) of the Nigeria Police Force. Employing Digital Artivism as its theoretical framework, this thesis explores the blending of art and activism within the Sọ̀rọ̀-sókè …
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Professionalism in Policing: Do Increased Education Requirements Improve Police Performance and Procedural Justice?
With the increased attention to police brutality against people of color in recent years, the credibility of police departments is being called into question. Prior research suggests that a police force can improve their trustworthiness in the eyes of the public through prioritizing procedural and …
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