Above the Law: Police and the Excessive Use of Force

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Simon and Schuster, 2010 M05 11 - 336 páginas
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.

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The Beating of Rodney King
1
Vigilante Justice
23
The Third Degree
51
Public Order Policing
67
The Culture of the Police
89
Cops as Soldiers
113
Beyond Accountability
137
Police Administrative Reform
172
The Courts
193
The Public
217
Renewing the Police
237
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Jerome Skolnick is Clare Clements Dean’s Professor of Law at the University of California, Berkely. He is the author of The Politics of Protest and co-author of The New Blue Line.

James Fyfe is Professor of Criminal Justice at Temple University. He was a member of the New York City Police Department for sixteen years as patrolman, sergeant, and lieutenant, and also taught at the Police Academy.

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