Policing and violence / Ronald G. Burns, Charles E. Crawford.

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Burns, Ronald, 1968-

Crawford, Charles, 1967-

Lipman Criminology Library Fund.

Series:

Prentice Hall's policing and ... series

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Police brutality.

Police--Violence against.

Police.

Physical Description:

xv, 237 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm.

Place of Publication:

Upper Saddle River, N.J. : Prentice Hall, [2002]

Summary:

This comprehensive, accurate, and timely account of police violence provides readers with a complete understanding of the concept and all that it entails -- covering its history to future directions, and ten different areas of police violence. Each chapter in the reader addresses police violence as it is used by and against officers, and all highly competent contributing authors (including both practitioners and academics) have a strong background in the various areas. Chapter topics examine the research surrounding violent acts, the reasons officers feel justified in using excessive force, an account of situational factors affecting an officer's likelihood to use or be the victim of victim of violence, measurements of deadly force, training issues, the importance of officer pursuits, violence and the community policing philosophy, and international rates of violent police-citizen encounters and the differences between countries.

Contents:

Chapter 1 The Political Economy of Police Violence / Paul B. Stretesky 1

Chapter 2 Violence by and Against the Police / Jason T. Carmichael, David Jacobs 25

Chapter 3 From Report Takers to Report Makers: Understanding the Police and Violence / Robert P. McNamara 52

Chapter 4 Situational Determinants of Police Violence / Ronald Burns, Charles Crawford 73

Chapter 5 Police Use of Deadly Force: Where We Should Be Looking / Steven E. Reifert 101

Chapter 6 Training and Police Violence / Kenneth W. Flynn 127

Chapter 7 Police Pursuits: Just One Form of Police Violence / Matt Welch 147

Chapter 8 Community Policing and Police Violence / Rhonda K. DeLong 167

Chapter 9 The International Dimensions of Violence and the Police / Richard H. Ward 189

Chapter 10 Future Directions of Police Violence: What to Expect / Gene Stephens 214

Chapter 11 Policing and Violence in Review: Perspectives from the Practitioner Turned Academic/Practitioner / M.L. Dantzker 228.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references.

Local Notes:

Acquired for the Penn Libraries with assistance from the Lipman Criminology Library Fund.

ISBN:

0130284378

OCLC:

47869115