identity traps: how to think about race & policing

by phillip atiba goff
May 24, 2017


Supplemental Material

Author Affiliation

Phillip Atiba Goff, President, Center for Policing Equity, Franklin A. Thomas Professor in Policing Equity, John Jay College of Criminal Justice. Corresponding author’s e-mail: [email protected] – www.policingequity.org

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