I AM A Child
A Girl-Child's Truth and The Lies of Law Enforcement
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 2368331 |
|---|---|
| Authors | Nikki Jones (0000-0003-4295-5596, University of California, Berkeley, corresponding author) |
| Year | 2021 |
| Volume | 35 |
| Issue | 4 |
| Pages | 527-537 |
| Publication date | 2021-08-01 |
| Peer Reviewed | Yes |
| Open Access | Yes |
| Type | ARTICLE |
| Venue | Gender & Society (JOURNAL) |
| Journal identifiers | ISSN: 0891-2432 • E-ISSN: 1552-3977 |
| Publisher | SAGE Publications Inc (PUBLISHER) |
| DOI | 10.1177/08912432211029388 |
| OpenAlex | W3181300737 |
| Language | EN |
| Citations received | 2 |
| References cited | 9 |
On January 29, 2021, a police officer with the Rochester, New York, Police Department pepper-sprayed a 9-year old Black girl who had been handcuffed and forced into the back of a police car. In the struggle that proceeded this moment, an officer yelled at the girl with obvious frustration, 'You're acting like a child!' In this essay, I consider how the girl's quick retort -'I AM a child!'-interjected a truth into the struggle that had been all but ignored by the armed adults on the scene. I consider how the truth embedded in this girl's call exposes the lies of law enforcement and, in doing so, lay the seeds of abolitionist imaginings-a call for a system, a world, that would treat a Black girl as if she were a child
Girl · Law enforcement · Officer · Political science · Sociology · Criminal Justice and Corrections Analysis · Law · Law, Rights, and Freedoms · Psychology · Race, History, and American Society
| Unique citing works | 2 |
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| Citations per year | 1 |
| Citation span | 2024 - 2025 (2) |
| Citation velocity | recent |
| Highly cited | No |
| Citation types | Neutral: 2 |