Habermasville”

Police–Community Intersections and Communicative Rationality

Bibliographic Data

ID12450495
AuthorsSean Mccandle (0000-0003-1820-7467, University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign, corresponding author), Gisli Vogler (0000-0001-7787-2876, University of Colorado System), G M Vogler (University of Colorado)
Year2019
Volume42
Issue4
Pages443-458
Publication date2019-11-23
Peer ReviewedYes
Open AccessNo
TypeARTICLE
VenueAdministrative Theory & Praxis (JOURNAL)
Journal identifiersISSN: 1084-1806 • E-ISSN: 1949-0461
PublisherTaylor & Francis (PUBLISHER • GB)
DOI10.1080/10841806.2019.1678350
OpenAlexW2991431900
LanguageEN
Citations received2
References cited37

Police–community relations in the United States are seeing a crisis of trust and legitimacy. Minorities disproportionally experience police contact, and recent shootings of unarmed persons raise concerns about whether minority communities have equal protection of the law. This paper uses Jürgen Habermas’s theory of communicative rationality to examine this distrust. The argument is that Habermas’s theory positively informs understanding of police–community relations in that distrust is caused by lack of communicative acts in favor of strategic acts emphasizing crime control that maintains unjust systems

Argument (complex analysis · Communicative action · Criminology · Distrust · Epistemology · Legitimacy · Political science · Politics · Rationality · Social science · Sociology · Crime Patterns and Interventions · Law · Policing Practices and Perceptions · Psychology · Social Psychology · Terrorism, Counterterrorism, and Political Violence

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