Peter B Kraska
Biographic Data
| ID | 214312 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Peter B Kraska |
| GIVEN NAMES | Peter B |
| FAMILY NAME | Kraska |
| SIGNATURE | KRASKA P B |
| AFFILIATIONS | Eastern Kentucky University |
| VERIFIED | No |
| TOTAL WORKS | 10 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 135 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 10 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 1992 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2020 |
| H-INDEX | 4 |
Criminal Justice and Criminology Research Methods
Criminal Justice and Criminology Research Methods, Third Edition, is an accessible and engaging text that offers balanced coverage of a full range of contemporary research methods. Filled with gritty criminal justice and criminology examples including policing, corrections, evaluation research, forensics, feminist studies, juvenile justice, crime theory, and criminal justice theory, this new edition demonstrates how research is relevant to the fi…
Normalising police militarisation, living in denial
The militarisation of policing in the USA continues to be a critical area of enquiry for both the police and the society. Recent events in Boston speak to the centrality of this area of research for understanding state responses to an array of social problems, including violence, terrorism and civil unrest. The police capacity to organise and distribute state-sponsored violence as well as the ability to shape institutional appearances while doing…
Fighting is the Most Real and Honest Thing: Violence and the Civilization/Barbarism Dialectic
Journal Article 'Fighting is the Most Real and Honest Thing': Violence and the Civilization/Barbarism Dialectic Get access John J. Brent, John J. Brent * * Doctoral Fellow, University of Delaware, Department of Criminology/Sociology, Center for Drug and Alcohol Studies, Newark, DE 19716, USA; [email protected]; P.B. Kraska, School of Justice Studies, Eastern Kentucky University, Richmond, KY, USA, [email protected]. Search for other works by thi…
Felon Disenfranchisement: The Judiciary’s Role in Renegotiating Racial Divisions
Felon disenfranchisement is deeply rooted in U.S. history as a form of punishment and as a tool to inhibit African Americans from voting. Today, there are 5.3 million U.S. residents politically disenfranchised due to a felony conviction-about 2 million of whom are African Americans. The overrepresentation of African Americans disenfranchised, and the U.S. history of racism, brings forth the question of how these laws continue to exist. The object…
Moving Beyond our Methodological Default: A Case for Mixed Methods
Within criminal justice/criminology exists a host of available research methods that generally default along qualitative and quantitative lines. Studying crime and justice phenomena, then, generally involves choosing one approach or the other. Although this binary tradition of qualitative vs. quantitative has predominated, our field's methodological infrastructure has recently demonstrated a willingness to adopt more inclusive practices. The purp…
Militarization and Policing--Its Relevance to 21st Century Police
This work examines the blurring distinctions between the police and military institutions and between war and law enforcement. In this article, the author asserts that understanding this blur, and the associated organizing concepts militarization and militarism, are essential for accurately analyzing the changing nature of security, and the activity of policing, in the late-modern era of the 21st century.
Questioning the Militarization of U.S. police: Critical versus advocacy scholarship∗
(1999). Questioning the Militarization of U.S. police: Critical versus advocacy scholarship. Policing and Society: Vol. 9, No. 2, pp. 141-155
Militarizing mayberry and beyond: Making sense of American paramilitary policing
National-level data, derived from a survey of all police agencies serving 25,000 to 50,000 people, document a previously unrecognized phenomenon: the growth in the number, an expansion of the activities, and the movement toward the normalization of small-locality police paramilitary units (PPU). Beside examining the implications of these findings for small-locality policing, we situate this phenomenon within broader paramilitary changes in the po…
Militarizing American Police: The Rise and Normalization of Paramilitary Units
This paper examines overlooked developments in contemporary policing: the growth in the number of, and a significant shift in the character of. United States police paramilitary units (PPUs). A survey of all police departments serving cities of 50,000 people or more provides the first comprehensive national data on PPUs. Findings document a rise in the number of PPUs, an escalation in their level of activity, a normalization of these units into m…
The processing of drug arrestees: Questioning the assumption of an ambivalent reaction
Militarizing American Police: The Rise and Normalization of Paramilitary Units
This paper examines overlooked developments in contemporary policing: the growth in the number of, and a significant shift in the character of. United States police paramilitary units (PPUs). A survey of all police departments serving cities of 50,000 people or more provides the first comprehensive national data on PPUs. Findings document a rise in the number of PPUs, an escalation in their level of activity, a normalization of these units into m…
Fighting is the Most Real and Honest Thing: Violence and the Civilization/Barbarism Dialectic
Journal Article 'Fighting is the Most Real and Honest Thing': Violence and the Civilization/Barbarism Dialectic Get access John J. Brent, John J. Brent * * Doctoral Fellow, University of Delaware, Department of Criminology/Sociology, Center for Drug and Alcohol Studies, Newark, DE 19716, USA; [email protected]; P.B. Kraska, School of Justice Studies, Eastern Kentucky University, Richmond, KY, USA, [email protected]. Search for other works by thi…
Normalising police militarisation, living in denial
The militarisation of policing in the USA continues to be a critical area of enquiry for both the police and the society. Recent events in Boston speak to the centrality of this area of research for understanding state responses to an array of social problems, including violence, terrorism and civil unrest. The police capacity to organise and distribute state-sponsored violence as well as the ability to shape institutional appearances while doing…
Questioning the Militarization of U.S. police: Critical versus advocacy scholarship∗
(1999). Questioning the Militarization of U.S. police: Critical versus advocacy scholarship. Policing and Society: Vol. 9, No. 2, pp. 141-155
Felon Disenfranchisement: The Judiciary’s Role in Renegotiating Racial Divisions
Felon disenfranchisement is deeply rooted in U.S. history as a form of punishment and as a tool to inhibit African Americans from voting. Today, there are 5.3 million U.S. residents politically disenfranchised due to a felony conviction-about 2 million of whom are African Americans. The overrepresentation of African Americans disenfranchised, and the U.S. history of racism, brings forth the question of how these laws continue to exist. The object…
The processing of drug arrestees: Questioning the assumption of an ambivalent reaction
Militarizing mayberry and beyond: Making sense of American paramilitary policing
National-level data, derived from a survey of all police agencies serving 25,000 to 50,000 people, document a previously unrecognized phenomenon: the growth in the number, an expansion of the activities, and the movement toward the normalization of small-locality police paramilitary units (PPU). Beside examining the implications of these findings for small-locality policing, we situate this phenomenon within broader paramilitary changes in the po…
Militarizing American Police: The Rise and Normalization of Paramilitary Units
This paper examines overlooked developments in contemporary policing: the growth in the number of, and a significant shift in the character of. United States police paramilitary units (PPUs). A survey of all police departments serving cities of 50,000 people or more provides the first comprehensive national data on PPUs. Findings document a rise in the number of PPUs, an escalation in their level of activity, a normalization of these units into m…
Questioning the Militarization of U.S. police: Critical versus advocacy scholarship∗
(1999). Questioning the Militarization of U.S. police: Critical versus advocacy scholarship. Policing and Society: Vol. 9, No. 2, pp. 141-155
Militarization and Policing--Its Relevance to 21st Century Police
This work examines the blurring distinctions between the police and military institutions and between war and law enforcement. In this article, the author asserts that understanding this blur, and the associated organizing concepts militarization and militarism, are essential for accurately analyzing the changing nature of security, and the activity of policing, in the late-modern era of the 21st century.
Moving Beyond our Methodological Default: A Case for Mixed Methods
Within criminal justice/criminology exists a host of available research methods that generally default along qualitative and quantitative lines. Studying crime and justice phenomena, then, generally involves choosing one approach or the other. Although this binary tradition of qualitative vs. quantitative has predominated, our field's methodological infrastructure has recently demonstrated a willingness to adopt more inclusive practices. The purp…
Felon Disenfranchisement: The Judiciary’s Role in Renegotiating Racial Divisions
Felon disenfranchisement is deeply rooted in U.S. history as a form of punishment and as a tool to inhibit African Americans from voting. Today, there are 5.3 million U.S. residents politically disenfranchised due to a felony conviction-about 2 million of whom are African Americans. The overrepresentation of African Americans disenfranchised, and the U.S. history of racism, brings forth the question of how these laws continue to exist. The object…
Normalising police militarisation, living in denial
The militarisation of policing in the USA continues to be a critical area of enquiry for both the police and the society. Recent events in Boston speak to the centrality of this area of research for understanding state responses to an array of social problems, including violence, terrorism and civil unrest. The police capacity to organise and distribute state-sponsored violence as well as the ability to shape institutional appearances while doing…
Fighting is the Most Real and Honest Thing: Violence and the Civilization/Barbarism Dialectic
Journal Article 'Fighting is the Most Real and Honest Thing': Violence and the Civilization/Barbarism Dialectic Get access John J. Brent, John J. Brent * * Doctoral Fellow, University of Delaware, Department of Criminology/Sociology, Center for Drug and Alcohol Studies, Newark, DE 19716, USA; [email protected]; P.B. Kraska, School of Justice Studies, Eastern Kentucky University, Richmond, KY, USA, [email protected]. Search for other works by thi…
Criminal Justice and Criminology Research Methods
Criminal Justice and Criminology Research Methods, Third Edition, is an accessible and engaging text that offers balanced coverage of a full range of contemporary research methods. Filled with gritty criminal justice and criminology examples including policing, corrections, evaluation research, forensics, feminist studies, juvenile justice, crime theory, and criminal justice theory, this new edition demonstrates how research is relevant to the fi…
Criminology (10 works) · Crime Patterns and Interventions (9 works) · Sociology (9 works) · Law (8 works) · Political science (8 works) · Criminal Justice and Corrections Analysis (6 works) · Policing Practices and Perceptions (5 works) · Law (4 works) · Criminal justice (3 works) · Politics (3 works)