Jeffrey S. Adler
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Jeffrey S. Adler

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Jeffrey S. Adler grew up in Boston and received his Ph.D. in History from Harvard University. He is professor of History and Criminology and Distinguished Teaching Scholar at the University of Florida, where he offers courses on the American city, the history of crime, and race and criminal justice in the United States. Adler has held research grants from the Harry Frank Guggenheim Foundation, the National Endowment for the Humanities, and the American Council of Learned Societies and his books include First in Violence, Deepest in Dirt: Homicide in Chicago, 1875-1920 (Cambridge, MA: Harvard University Press, 2006) and Murder in New Orleans: The Creation of Jim Crow Policing (Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 2019). Adler’s research has focused particularly on the history of violence in the United States, and Bluecoated Terror explores the rise of modern racialized police brutality. A century ago, American law enforcers killed suspects at relatively modest levels. In the early twenty-first century, they kill civilians at one hundred the rate of their English counterparts and at more thirty times the rate of German police officers. Their victims are disproportionally African American and unarmed. These staggering trends emerged during the two decades after World War One. Bluecoated Terror examines the process through which American police violence soared and became racialized.
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