Understanding police use of force : officers, suspects, and reciprocity /

This book examines the use of force by police officers. It includes a brief survey of prior research, and then goes on to present important new data and findings. The authors put forward a new conceptual framework, the Authority Maintenance Theory, for examining and assessing police use of force.

Detalles Bibliográficos
Clasificación:Libro Electrónico
Otros Autores: Alpert, Geoffrey P., Dunham, Roger G.
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: Cambridge ; New York : Cambridge University Press, 2004.
Colección:Cambridge studies in criminology (Cambridge University Press)
Temas:
Arrest (Police methods)
Restraint of prisoners > United States.
Police brutality > United States.
Police discretion > United States.
Arrest (Police methods) > United States.
Force nécessaire (Arrestation) > États-Unis.
Prisonniers > Immobilisation > États-Unis.
Brutalités policières > États-Unis.
Pouvoir discrétionnaire de la police > États-Unis.
POLITICAL SCIENCE > Political Freedom & Security > Law Enforcement.
Police brutality
Police discretion
Restraint of prisoners
United States
Acceso en línea:Texto completo
Tabla de Contenidos:
  • Introduction : the context of police use of force
  • Police use of force : the history of research
  • The crucial element : finding research sites
  • Findings from Miami-Dade Police Department study
  • The sequential steps in use-of-force incidents in the Miami-Dade Police Department
  • Miami-Dade Police Department : inconsistencies between officer and suspect accounts of the use of force
  • Findings from Prince George's County Police Department
  • Findings and summary
  • Explaining police use of force : the breakdown of an authority maintenance ritual.

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