First, it explores how high school students from different social, racial, and economic backgrounds experience police contact and perceive injustice along a gradient that diverges along racial and ethnic lines. Second, it uses the experiences of youth, particularly their interactions with teachers, police, and parents, to uncover how their experiences shape their perceptions of themselves and their wider social worlds. Finally, this book uncovers the driving forces behind, and consequences of, policies that have intricately linked the
