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Dr. Hunt wins best paper prize at Penn State’s “3PI” initiative

The Policing, Policy, and Philosophy Initiative (3PI) was launched with support from the American Philosophical Association and Rock Ethics Institute at Penn State. Its aim is to foster collaboration among philosophers and ethicists who study policing, with the goal of connecting their work to ongoing policy debates. Prof. Hunt’s paper, “Police Interrogation and Fraudulent Epistemic Environments,” was selected for the 3PI Best Paper Award for its exhibition of philosophical originality while highlighting the policy implications of its arguments.   The $1,000 prize […]

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Dr. Luke Hunt’s book, The Police Identity Crisis, reviewed in top journal, “Ethics”

Dr. Luke Hunt’s book, The Police Identity Crisis, reviewed in top journal, “Ethics” Read more: Dr. Luke Hunt (The University of Alabama) Dr. Hunt’s The Police Identity Crisis: Hero, Warrior, Guardian, Algorithm (New York: Routledge: 2021), was recently reviewed by Ben Jones in the premier philosophy journal, Ethics 133, no. 4 (July 2023): 625-629. The review can be found here: https://www.journals.uchicago.edu/doi/10.1086/724541

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Dr. Luke Hunt Receives President’s Faculty Research Award!

Dr. Hunt was selected for a President’s Faculty Research Award in the Emerging Scholars category for the Arts and Humanities. He is the author of The Retrieval of Liberalism in Policing (Oxford University Press, 2019) and The Police Identity Crisis – Hero, Warrior, Guardian, Algorithm (Routledge, 2021), and his third monograph, Police Deception and Dishonesty – The Logic of Lying, is under contract with Oxford University Press.   His articles have appeared in journals such as Law and Philosophy, Ratio Juris, […]

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Dr. Luke Hunt, “The Limits of Reallocative and Algorithmic Policing” Journal Article

The Limits of Reallocative and Algorithmic Policing  Dr. Luke Hunt (The University of Alabama) Article in Criminal Justice Ethics, Vol. 41, Issue 1 (2022). Abstract: Policing in many parts of the world—the United States in particular—has embraced an archetypal model: a conception of the police based on the tenets of individuated archetypes, such as the heroic police “warrior” or “guardian.” Such policing has in part motivated moves to (1) a reallocative model: reallocating societal resources such that the police are no longer needed in […]

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Dr. Luke Hunt interviewed for article in “The New Republic”

Dr. Luke Hunt was interviewed for an article in The New Republic about the police’s use of informants.  The magazine piece examines cases in which the police use their leverage to get drug addicts to work as drug informants.  Hunt’s comments in the piece raise both procedural concerns about such cases (whether the informant had a “real choice” to work for the police), and substantive concerns (whether the police should subject informants to the risk of significant harm). See link for […]

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