Book review: Charles R Epp, Steven Maynard-Moody and Donald Haider-Markel, Pulled Over: How Police Stops Define Race and Citizenship
| Date | 01 February 2015 |
| Author | Forrest Stuart |
| Published date | 01 February 2015 |
| DOI | 10.1177/1362480614556193 |
| Subject Matter | Book reviews |
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and outcomes. Had she made a more explicit connection or engaged in a conversation
with, for example, the work of Nikki Jones, Devah Pager, Victor Rios, Chris Uggen, or
the work I have done on monetary sanctions, the book would have had a much richer
framework to situate its empirical findings.
All that being said, this book is an original and important contribution to the crimino-
logical research on mass conviction and incarceration. Moreover, its vivid writing and
accessibility also enables it to be an effective vehicle with which to inform a non-aca-
demic audience and the policy debate around these very issues. For that, Goffman has
accomplished an impressive achievement.
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Charles R Epp, Steven Maynard-Moody and Donald Haider-Markel, Pulled Over: How Police
Stops Define Race and Citizenship, University of Chicago Press: Chicago, 2014; 272 pp.:
9780226113999, $25 (pbk)
Reviewed by: Forrest Stuart, University of Chicago, USA
In Pulled Over: How Police Stops Define Race and Citizenship, Charles R Epp, Steven
Maynard-Moody, and Donald Haider-Markel provide a thoughtful, penetrating, and
timely analysis of the causes, experiences, and effects of discriminatory police stops.
Published less than three months prior to the police shooting of Michael Brown on the
streets of Ferguson, Missouri, Pulled Over sheds fresh light on some of the larger racial
dynamics of police stops that may have been responsible for the tragic event and the
public unrest that quickly followed. In addition to their meticulous analysis of surveys
and interviews with drivers and officers in the Kansas City Metropolitan Area, Epp and
colleagues offer us a new vocabulary for discussing...
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