Document Type
Book Review
Publication Date
2017
Abstract
When Police Kill is a must-have for any academic law library collection and a strong candidate for the shelves of government and court libraries. The book is a compelling example of the value of the growing empirical and current-event-analysis trends in legal scholarship, relying on open source statistics, news accounts, and crowdsourced efforts both to inform potentially fraught dialogue and advance new public policy approaches. Research librarians, who may increasingly find themselves tapped to assist with or manage such projects, should look to When Police Kill for information, as well as inspiration, about how a diverse and data-driven study can be presented for consumption by a wide audience.
Recommended Citation
Andrew J. Christensen, Keeping Up with New Legal Titles, 109 Law Libr. J. 700 (2017) (reviewing When Police Kill by Franklin Zimring (2017)).
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Criminal Law Commons, Law Enforcement and Corrections Commons, Law Librarianship Commons