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Understanding police use of force : officers, suspects, and reciprocity / Geoffrey P. Alpert, Roger G. Dunham.
- Title
- Understanding police use of force : officers, suspects, and reciprocity / Geoffrey P. Alpert, Roger G. Dunham.
- Publication
- Cambridge, UK ; New York : Cambridge University Press, 2004.
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- Description
- x, 191 p. : ill.; 23 cm.
- Summary
- 'Understanding Police Use of Force' examines the patterns of interaction between the officer & the citizen that lead to police use of force. The authors put forward a new conceptual framework, the Authority Maintenance Theory, for examining & assessing police use of force.
- Series Statement
- Cambridge studies in criminology
- Uniform Title
- Cambridge studies in criminology
- Subject
- Genre/Form
- Electronic books.
- Bibliography (note)
- Includes bibliographical references and index.
- Processing Action (note)
- committed to retain
- Contents
- 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.
- ISBN
- 0521837731
- 0521546753 (pbk.)
- LCCN
- ^^2003063883
- OCLC
- 53919237
- SCSB-10020479
- Owning Institutions
- Harvard Library