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8 Race & Just. 3 (2018)

handle is hein.journals/rcjstc8 and id is 1 raw text is: Race and justice 2018, Vol. 8(I) 3-6 Introduction ©) The Author(s) 2017 Reprints and permission: sagepub.com/journalsPermissions.nav DOI: 10. 1177/2153368717747066 journals.sagepub.com/home/raj OSAGE Delores Jones-Brown'I and Madeleine Novich2 Understanding what policing looks and feels like to those who are heavily policed is an often ignored component of mainstream policing discourse. As the nation's president calls for a national policing strategy to include the aggressive use of stop and frisk, as an effective means of achieving law and order, senior criminology/criminal justice scholars recognize that this is an old refrain that led to a complex array of lawlessness and disorder in the 1960s.2 His message is indicative of the American lack of imagi- nation or genuine care when it comes to certain vulnerable populations who are a part of the body politic. The empirical research presented in this special issue contributes to a body of knowledge (see, e.g., Brunson, 2007; Brunson & Miller, 2006; Gau & Brunson, 2015; Rios, 2011, 2017; Shedd, 2015) that gives voice to those who are policed the most, but who have had the least say in defining effective policing. The participants in the various studies go beyond the mainstream notion of community representation, which for law enforcement typically means business owners, homeowners, church- goers, and the employed,3 to encompass a network of highly policed young people who find themselves in geographic, demographic, and other socially defined spaces that increase their risk of police contact regardless of the legality of their personal conduct. First, the Kerrison, Cobbina & Bender paper rebuts the popular notion that youth of color can avoid police contact simply by pulling up their pants and engaging with the politics of respectability. The article addresses the current circumstance where youth are blamed for their police contact, while the implicit (or overtly) racialized nature of urban policing strategies and tactics4 is ignored. Kerrison, Cobbina & Bender find that some youth are able to reject this self-blame even when it comes from elders and family within their own communities. The findings from their research should be used as part of an important shifting of the existing paradigm about proactive policing and its role in public safety. Department of Law, Police Science & qA, John Jay College of Criminal justice, New York, NY, USA 2 Rutgers School of Criminal justice, Newark, NJ, USA Corresponding Author: Delores Jones-Brown, Department of Law, Police Science & CJA, John Jay College of Criminal justice, 529 W. 59th Street, New York, NY 100 19. Email: djbrown@jjay.cuny.edu

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