Abstract In Unreasonable: Black Lives, Police Power, and the Fourth Amendment, Devon W. Carbado illuminates how both the spectacular and quotidian forms of racialized terror, brutality, and surveillance—characteristic of enslavement—have shaped the...
Abstract Unreasonable makes a number of important contributions to discourses on race, crime and justice. First, a central claim of the book is that within policing, race discrimination is not an individual phenomenon or a problem of bad police...
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...
Abstract Abolition captured national attention in 2020 following the police killings of George Floyd and Breonna Taylor. Despite this attention, stakeholders favoring traditional legal reforms remain skeptical about the abolitionist demand to...
Abstract As the ranks of prison industrial complex abolitionists grow, the question of whether, and if so how, they should engage with criminal procedure doctrine becomes ever more pressing. This Essay engages Devon W. Carbado’s Unreasonable: Black...