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Monica Bell

Monica Bell is a Research Associate at the Justice Collaboratory at Yale Law School. An academic article on the research described herein is forthcoming in the Law & Society Review.

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What Happens When Low-Income Mothers Call the Police
Amid the national discourse on policing, it is easy to lose sight of the day-to-day functions that police are expected to perform—the noise reduction, the carrying of groceries, the stopgap plumbing, the parenting support. But so much of their work is that mundane. Shay,* mother of 17-year-old...
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