A Call for Understanding Diversity and Policing

• Published date: 01 January 2014
• DOI: http://doi.org/10.1111/puar.12158
• Date: 01 January 2014

128 Public Administration Review • January | February 2014

Shannon Portillo takes an

interdisciplinary approach to her work,

drawing from organizational theories

rooted in public administration and law and

society to explore how rules and policies

are implemented within public organiza-

tions. Her teaching and research interests

include social justice, social equity, organi-

zational theory, and legal mobilization.

Her research has appeared in Law and

Policy, Administration & Society, Law

and Social Inquiry, Journal of Public

Administration Research and Theory,

and Public Administration Review.

E-mail: sportillo@ku.edu

Sonia M. Ospina and Rogan Kersh, Editors

Shannon Portillo

University of Kansas

Roddrick A. Colvin, Gay and Lesbian Cops: Diver-

sity and Ef‌f ective Policing (Boulder, CO: Lynne

Rienner, 2012). 213 pp. $55.00 (cloth), ISBN:

9781588268372. Much of the limited research on sexual ori-

entation in public administration consid-

ers discrimination and compliance with

antidiscrimination laws (for a review, see Oldf‌i eld,

A Call for Understanding Diversity and Policing