Roundtable: Policing in America: International Scholars’ Insights and Their Dilemma to Study, Educate, and Train Current and Future Criminal Justice Professionals (Organized by Korean Society of Criminology in America (KOSCA)

Session Submission Type: Roundtable Session

Abstract/Description

As an international scholar in policing, we often face the dilemma of how to understand and deliver American policing to audiences under the pressure of internal conflict when it comes to the comparison between America policing and policing in our home country, especially on police use-of-deadly force against racial/ethical minorities and immigrants. Under the current government, violent crime rates have increased in many major cities, and the concerns of immigration and immigrants have been more complex. In addition, President Donald Trump’s comment to law enforcement officials boosts the complexity and conflict even among police officers as well as in a police department. Historically but more recently, American police are portrayed as “systemically racists” due to their daily practices in a racially discriminatory manner. In this regard, the members of the Korean Society of Criminology in America (KoSCA) share their experience and discuss how to deal with the difficulties and to better deliver the related issues to students.

Sub Unit

• Area XI. Roundtables

Chair

• Hyeyoung Lim, University of Alabama at Birmingham

Discussants

• Moonsun Kim, State University of New York - Brockport

• Jaeseung Lee, Northern Kentucky University

• Hyunin Baek, New Mexico State University

• David Yong Kim, Indiana University East

• Sungil Han, The University of Texas at Dallas