Titre : | Above the Law |
Titre original: | Police and the excessive use of force |
Auteurs : | Jerome H. Skolnick, Auteur ; J. James Fyfe, Auteur |
Type de document : | Monographie |
Editeur : | New York : The Free Press, 1993 |
ISBN/ISSN/EAN : | 978-0-02-929153-5 |
Format : | 313 |
Note générale : | violence policière Rodney King |
Langues: | Français |
Catégories : | Sociologie de la police |
Tags : | police ; passage à tabac ; rodney king ; video ; violence policière ; force de l'ordre ; application de la loi |
Résumé : | The now-famous videotape of the beating of Rodney King precipitated a national outcry against police violence. Skolnick and Fyfe, two of the nation's top experts on law enforcement, use the incident to introduce a revealing historical analysis of such violence and the extent of its survival in law enforcement today. |
Note de contenu : |
Contents
Acknowledgments Prologue : whatever happened to Dragnet 1. The beating of rodney king, p1 PART ONE: OCCASIONS 2. Vigilante justice, p23 3. The third degree, p43 4. Public order policing, p67 PART TWO: EXPLANATIONS 5. The culture of the police, p89 6. Cops as soldiers, p113 7. Beyond accountability, p134 PART THREE: REMEDIES 8. Police administration reform, p172 9. Police accountability I: the courts, p193 10.Police accountabilityII: the public, p217 11.Renewing the police, p237 Notes, p267 Index, p301 |
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