Making news of police violence : a comparative study of Toronto and New York City / Jeffrey Ian Ross ; foreword by Donna C. Hale.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Ross, Jeffrey Ian.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Police brutality--Public opinion--Case studies.

Police brutality.

Police in mass media--Case studies.

Police in mass media.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (193 p.)

Edition:

1st ed.

Distribution:

London : Bloomsbury Publishing, 2024

Place of Publication:

Westport, Conn. : Praeger, 2000.

Language Note:

English

Summary:

Although many people consider excessive police violence disconcerting, if, when, and how they voice their opinion or respond by taking some sort of action has generally remained empirically unknown. In the hope of understanding this process, Ross has developed a four-stage model, based on a review of the literature and on interviews with the relevant actors. He then uses this tool to analyze police violence that occurred in Toronto, Canada and New York City, over a fifteen-year period. To better focus the study, he uses in-depth case studies of three well-publicized cases of police violence from each city, matched on important criteria. This study addresses a difficult, timely, and important topic for victims, for police personnel, and for society. Ross concludes that, in general, most individuals do not respond to police use of excessive force; further, if and when they do usually depends on the context of the violence. Using both quantitative and qualitative methods, Ross's model integrates a variety of approaches to improve our understanding of how communities come to define and control the use of force by police, including literature on the role of media efforts and their impact upon police violence. The work concludes with an analysis of the reasons why people react so infrequently to incidents of excessive force.

Contents:

Intro

Contents

Foreword

Preface

Acknowledgments

Chapter 1 What Is Public Police Violence?

Chapter 2 A Political Process Model of Public Police Violence

Chapter 3 The Politics and Control of Police Violence in Toronto

Chapter 4 The Politics and Control of Police Violence in New York City

Chapter 5 Beyond Apathy

Appendix A Research Design and Methodology

Appendix B Coding Sheet Used to Record and Categorize the Variables in the Process Model

Appendix C People Interviewed for the Toronto Portion of the Study

Appendix D People Interviewed for the New York City Portion of the Study

Appendix E t-Tests for the Samples of City Data

References

Index.

Notes:

Bibliographic Level Mode of Issuance: Monograph

Includes bibliographical references (p. [157]-171) and index.

ISBN:

9798400681547

9780313002816

0313002819

OCLC:

614611206