Anti-Racism Research & Resource Guide

• A Civil Rights Expert Explains the Social Science of Police Racism

  By Lydia Denworth | Scientific American | 2020
• How racist policing took over American cities, explained by a historian

  By Anna North | Vox | 2020
• More cops. Is it the answer to fighting crime?

  Simone Weichselbaum and Wendi C. Thomas, The Marshall Project | USA Today | 2019
• The Black Family in the Age of Mass Incarceration

  By Ta-Nehisi Coates | The Atlantic | 2015
• What does 'defund the police' mean and why some say 'reform' is not enough

  By Ryan W. Miller | USA Today | 2020

• Big Data Surveillance: The Case of Policing

  By Sarah Brayne | American Sociological Review | 2017
• Critical Prison Studies: Review of a Field

  By Micol Seigel | American Quarterly | 2018
• The geographies of policing by Richard Yarwood

  By Richard Yarwood | Progress in Human Geography | 2016
• Policing a Negotiated World: A Partial Test of Klinger’s Ecological Theory of Policing

  By Travis A Taniguchi & Christopher Salvatore | Journal of Quantitative Criminology | 2018
• Policing Critique

  By Isabel Roele | The Modern Law Review | 2018

• 6 podcasts to help you better understand racism, policing and criminal justice problems in America | NCPR

  Written by: Julia Ritchey from North Country Public Radio.
• The Code Switch Guide To Race And Policing | NPR

  "To help explain how the United States got to this point, we looked back at some of our coverage of race and policing, both from the podcast and the blog. (We also compiled all those episodes in a handy Spotify playlist, if that's your podcast streaming method of choice!)"
• Graham | Radiolab - WYNC Studios | 60 min.

  "In this episode, we explore the origin of the reasonable officer standard, with the case that sent two Charlotte lawyers on a quest for true objectivity, and changed the face of policing in the US."
• Race, Police, & The Pandemic | FRONTLINE: Film Audio Track, PBS | 30 min.

  As streets across America erupt into clashes over racism during the coronavirus pandemic, Jelani Cobb of The New Yorker examines a connection between George Floyd’s death and the disproportionate impact of COVID-19 deaths among African Americans..."
• Race and Policing: Parts 1 and 2 | American Law Institute | 45 & 35 min.

  In this two-part episode Sherrilyn Ifill of the NAACP Legal Defense and Educational Fund, Inc., Barry Friedman, New York University Law professor and director of NYU’s Policing Project, and John Malcolm of the Heritage Foundation explore the intersection of race and policing in the United States."
• American Police | Throughline - NPR | 64 min.

  This episode covers, "the origins of American policing and how those origins put violent control of Black Americans at the heart of the system."
• Mass Incarceration | Throughline - NPR | 48 min.

  "The United States imprisons more people than any other country in the world, and a disproportionate number of those prisoners are Black. What are the origins of the U.S. criminal justice system and how did racism shape it?"

• HeinOnline Criminal Justice & Criminology

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  An overview of crime, criminology and justice overview in American and English law.
  Contains statistics, diaries, congressional hearings, government documents and ephemera.
• HeinOnline Government, Politics and Law

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  Extensive coverage of legal journals, treatises, legislative histories, federal laws (1925-), federal regulations (1938-), presidential documents, all U.S. treaties, and world constitutions. Also includes special law collections on slavery, women, religion and the Gun Regulation and Legislation in America database. Additional federal materials are included. Contains 80 million+ pages of content across 80,000 titles and 195,000 volumes.

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  Collections include:
  Description of GAO Reports and Comptroller General Decisions
  Law Journal Library
  Legal Classics
  LGBTQA
  Slavery in America and the World: History
  Culture & Law
  Religion and the Law
  Women and the Law
  World Constitutions Illustrated
  U.S. Treaties and Agreements
  History of International Law
  Foreign Relations of the United States
  U.S. Supreme Court Library
  U.S. Congressional Documents
  Federal Register/Code of Federal Regulations
  U.S. Statutes at Large,
  U.S. Federal Legislative History Library
  U.S. Code
  U.S.Presidential Library
  Criminal Justice in America
  U.S. Attorney General and Dept. of Justice Collection
  U.S. Federal Agency Documents.
• Opposing Viewpoints

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  Includes viewpoint articles, topic overviews, statistics, primary documents, links to websites, and full-text magazine and newspaper articles.

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  Made available by the NOVELNY program, which makes resources available to everyone in NYS.  For NYS residents outside of NYS, please see the website for more detail.  For links to all NOVELNY databases, please see the NOVELNY webpage. 

• ProQuest Congressional

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  Access to legislative publications including Congressional Hearings (parts A-D), U.S. Bills and Resolutions (2014-2018), laws, reports, documents, prints, the Federal Register, the Code of Federal Regulations, and member and committee information.

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  In addition to the Basic Subscription, BU Libraries has access to the full text of the Congressional Record and its predecessor publications from 1789-present, the Congressional Serial Set from 1789-2010, Serial Set maps from 1789-present, Executive Branch Documents, 1789-1932, and Congressional Research Service reports.
• Westlaw

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  Extensive coverage of legal materials including case law, statutes, and regulations for the U.S. government and the states. Includes Supreme Court briefs and petitions, United States Code Annotated and secondary legal sources such as American Jurisprudence 2d, American Law Reports, and law reviews.

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  Documents can also be accessed through broad subject categories such as Civil Rights, International Law and Environmental Law. Also includes news, broadcast transcripts, and limited business content.

• 5 Books to Read About Race and the Police
• 10 Nonfiction Books on Why We Need to Defund the Police
• The Best Histories of U.S. Policing, According to Experts
• A reading list to understand police brutality in America

• New Era of Public Safety: New Era of Public Safety: An Advocacy Toolkit for Fair, Safe, and Effective Community Policing

  Toolkit for fair, safe, and effective community policing.
• Innocence Project

  The Innocence Project, founded in 1992 by Peter Neufeld and Barry Scheck at Cardozo School of Law, exonerates the wrongly convicted through DNA testing and reforms the criminal justice system to prevent future injustice.
• The Sentencing Project

  The Sentencing Project works for a fair and effective U.S. criminal justice system by producing groundbreaking research to promote reforms in sentencing policy, address unjust racial disparities and practices, and to advocate for alternatives to incarceration.
• How to Teach Kids About What's Happening in Ferguson

  The Atlantic | 2014
  A crowdsourced syllabus about race, African American history, civil rights, and policing