No Place on the Corner By Jan Haldipur 9781479869084 (Hardback)

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Crime & criminology

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Wordery

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Nyu press

No Place on the Corner : New York University Press : 9781479869084 : 1479869082 : 27 Nov 2018 : Winner, 2019 Goddard Riverside Stephan Russo Book Prize for Social Justice, given by the Goddard Riverside Community Center The impact of stop-and-frisk policing on a South Bronx community What's it like to be stopped and frisked by the police while walking home from the supermarket with your young children? How does it feel to receive a phone call from your fourteen-year-old son who is in the back of a squad car because he laughed at a police officer? How does a young person of color cope with being frisked several times a week since the age of 15? These are just some of the stories in No Place on the Corner, which draws on three years of intensive ethnographic fieldwork in the South Bronx before and after the landmark 2013 Floyd v. City of New York decision that ruled that the NYPD's controversial ?stop and frisk? policing methods were a violation of rights. Through riveting interview

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