Police practice between state mandate and public criticism. Challenges, coping strategies, risk constellations in the context of police racism

Lecture series: Racism in the police – empirical findings, methodological approaches and controversies

Lecture by: Prof. Dr. Astrid Jacobsen (IKRIS / Police Academy of Lower Saxony)

Reports from people affected by racism about unprovoked police checks, humiliation or problematic use of force by the police continue unabated. They occupy the public debate; numerous political initiatives have been fighting for clarification, in some cases for decades. In recent years, empirical social research and police research have also increasingly taken up the topic.
Racism in the police has various dimensions – from individual attitudes to structural forms – and can be investigated in different ways. As part of the lecture series, researchers will present current empirical studies on racist attitudes and knowledge structures, institutional reproduction mechanisms of racism and the perspectives of those affected in three lectures.

Organizer:
Professorship for Criminology and Criminal Law at the Institute for Criminal Sciences and Philosophy of Law at Goethe University Frankfurt am Main in cooperation with the Research Center “Normative Orders”