CFP: Policing in the 21st Century

American Sociological Association

The American Sociological Association invites submissions for its upcoming publication Policing in the 21st Century. Topics such as the following are welcome:

  • Activism related to vigilantism, policing, the court process, and/or incarceration
  • Community expectations of police and the judicial system
  • Implicit and explicit biases (as held by law enforcement officers, vigilantes, and/or larger society)
  • Insider/outsider experiences amongst law enforcement members
  • Intersectional analyses of emergent law enforcement issues
  • Policing in Black and Brown communities
  • Race, gender, class, and police policies
  • Recruitment of racial and ethnic minorities to policing agencies and/or law enforcement fields
  • Under examined issues shaping law enforcement members
  • Vigilantism

Deadline: Please submit a one page vitae and an abstract of 250-500 words by August 15th, 2016, directly to Sandra E. Weissinger at sweissi[@]suie.edu.

About the author

Reference Librarian, Moritz College of Law, The Ohio State University