Document Type
Book Review
Publication Date
2024
Publisher
Boston University School of Law
Language
en-US
Abstract
Devon Carbado’s most recent book, Unreasonable: Black Lives, Police Power, and the Fourth Amendment, is a must-read for anyone studying or concerned with criminal procedure or policing. Unlike some of Professor Carbado’s other work, the brilliance of this book is not necessarily new conceptualizations or theorizations—for which he is well known—but rather centers on accessible pedagogy. If you have studied race and policing, you are not likely to find a new case, study, or reference to scholarship in the book. But, you are going to understand anti-Black racism, policing, the Fourth Amendment, and their intersections better than you did before. You will also benefit from the key sources being skillfully assembled and connected. If you are new to race and policing, you will get up to speed thoroughly and quickly through an easy read—which is no easy feat when writing about complex constitutional law and sensitive issues of structural racism for a general audience who may have a diversity of ideological leanings. This book is an approachable, engaging, one-stop read for the subject.
Recommended Citation
Jasmine Gonzales Rose,
A Reasonable And Well-Reasoned Teaching Tool In Unreasonable Times
,
in
104
Boston University Law Review Online
8
(2024).
Available at:
https://scholarship.law.bu.edu/faculty_scholarship/3911
Included in
Civil Rights and Discrimination Commons, Fourth Amendment Commons, Law and Race Commons, Law Enforcement and Corrections Commons
Comments
Part of a Book Symposium on Devon Carbado's Unreasonable: Black Lives, Police Power, and the Fourth Amendment