When police kill /

When Police Kill is the first comprehensive analysis of police use of lethal force in the United States. The first seven chapters of this volume provide a summary and analysis of the known facts about killings by police. Who dies from police gunfire? What circumstances provoke police to shoot? Why i...

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Bibliographic Details
Call Number:Libro Electrónico
Main Author: Zimring, Franklin E. (Author)
Format: Electronic eBook
Language:Inglés
Published: Cambridge, Massachusetts : Harvard University Press, 2017.
Subjects:
Police shootings > United States.
Police > Violence against > United States.
Police administration > United States.
Police-community relations > United States.
Police > Usage des armes > États-Unis.
Policiers > Violence envers > États-Unis.
Relations police-collectivité > États-Unis.
SOCIAL SCIENCE / Criminology
Police administration
Police-community relations
Police shootings
Police > Violence against
United States
Online Access:Texto completo
Table of Contents:
  • Part I. The character and causes of police violence: The double transformation of police killings in America
  • Killings by police: the numbers game
  • Who dies, where and why? : on the social characteristics of victims, the settings and the explanations of killings by police
  • Only in America? : police killings in other modern nations
  • The problem of police safety
  • Trends over time in killings of and by police in the United States
  • On costs and consequences: how much do black lives (and white lives) matter?
  • Part II. Prevention and control of police killings: The missing links: reporting, documentation, and evaluation in a federal system
  • Mission impossible? : the limits and potential of criminal law
  • Cops and cameras
  • The heart of the matter: governance and training for local policing
  • American possibilities, American limits.

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