Relying on intense ethnographic research and extensive experiences teaching human rights policing to police officers, this book teaches law enforcement professionals how to apply human rights to their everyday interactions with community members.
* Provides a guideline for law enforcement agents to apply human rights policing to their everyday jobs
* Offers solutions to the problems of policing in society, including a response to the global social movement against police brutality
* Grounded in data collected from years of the ethnographic research with police officers on human rights
Marina and Marina's book offers over three decades of practical experience and innovative research toward centralizing human rights within criminal justice and policing specifically. Human Rights Policing: Reimagining Law Enforcement in the 21st Century could not be more salient in these extraordinary times. While many of us imagine impending crisis on a global scale, this book-through tremendous insight, experience, and intellectual humility-offers ethical ways forward for policing and the education of future practitioners. I cannot personally imagine a more innovative or realist approach to the complex condition of modern policing with the baggage of colonialist histories during this historic moment of growing social disparities. Both Peter and Pedro's voices ring out clearly throughout this text. One voice has the insight and articulation of well-travelled ethnographer while the other adds decades of policing experience, respectively. This book offers insightful re-conceptualizations for policing and education in criminal justice/criminology that few (if any) books currently contain.
Edward LW Green, Roosevelt University, Chicago, IL
Professor Marina and retired N.O.P.D. Lieutenant Pedro Marina bring a fresh, innovative, and exciting perspective on human rights and policing. Their book offers a paradigm shift away from the 'This is the way we have always done it,' mentality currently keeping police agencies from evolving. This book is a must-read for police chiefs and law enforcement executives looking for a way to jump-start their agencies' community engagement philosophy and improve understanding of the role human rights plays in policing.
Ron Camacho, Chief, Chambersburg Pennsylvania Police Department
Human Rights Policing is a collaboration between a retired lieutenant from the New Orleans Police Department, with 30 years of experience in law enforcement, and an academic sociologist known for his longstanding commitment to challenging the systemic issues that have plagued US policing. Their shared mission is to put forward a new model of policing that they call 'Human Rights Policing,' which is based upon the United Nations' definition of human rights, which includes the right to life, liberty, security of person, freedom from arbitrary arrest, detention, and many other protections. Written in an engaging and accessible style, with the use of real-life examples, this book provides a practical guide for the implementation of Human Rights Policing. While it will undoubtedly prove to be essential reading for all those working in law enforcement, it also functions as a useful and thought-provoking contribution to the debate on the future of policing in this country.
Jayne Mooney, John Jay College of Criminal Justice, City University of New York
Peter Marina holds a Ph.D. in sociology from The New School for Social Research in Manhattan, serves as Associate Professor of Sociology & Criminal Justice, and is author of Down and Out in New Orleans with Columbia University Press.
Pedro Marina holds a Bachelor's of Arts in Sociology at the University of New Orleans and is a retired police lieutenant from the New Orleans Police Department with 30 years of law enforcement experience in the Big Easy.
Chapter 1: Human Rights Policing
Chapter 2: Connecting Human Rights to Policing
Chapter 3: Police, Power, Agency, and Human Rights
Chapter 4: The Sociological Imagination and Human Rights Policing
Chapter 5: Engaging with the Community on Human Rights
Chapter 6. Policy Suggestions, Human Rights, and the Future of Policing