Why Public Health Approaches to Policing Matter

Abstract

What can public health frameworks tell us about the causes of police brutality and possible remedies? Devon W. Carbado’s book Unreasonable: Black Lives, Police Power, and the Fourth Amendment offers compelling insight into how understanding law as a determinant of the poor health outcomes associated with policing might create new pathways for rethinking the ways that law authorizes practices known to harm Black people’s health and wellbeing.

About the Author

Haas Distinguished Chair and Professor of Law, University of California, Berkeley with a joint appointment in the Joint Medical Program and School of Public Health. B.A. Yale University, J.D. Columbia Law School, Ph.D. University of California, Berkeley.

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