Criminology explains police violence / Philip Matthew Stinson, Sr.
"Criminology Explains Police Violence offers a concise and targeted overview of criminological theory applied to the phenomenon of police violence. In this engaging and accessible book, Philip M. Stinson highlights the similarities and differences among criminological theories, and provides lin...
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Full Text (via De Gruyter) |
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| Format: | eBook |
| Language: | English |
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Oakland, California :
University of California Press,
[2020]
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| Series: | Criminology explains.
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| Summary: | "Criminology Explains Police Violence offers a concise and targeted overview of criminological theory applied to the phenomenon of police violence. In this engaging and accessible book, Philip M. Stinson highlights the similarities and differences among criminological theories, and provides linkages across explanatory levels and across time and geography to explain police violence. This book is appropriate as a primary or secondary text in criminology, policing, and criminal justice special topic courses. Stinson uses examples from his own research to explore police violence, acknowledging the difficulty in studying the topic because violence is often seen as a normal part of policing"-- |
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| Physical Description: | 1 online resource. |
| Bibliography: | Includes bibliographical references (pages 173-207) and index. |
| ISBN: | 9780520971639 0520971639 |
| Language: | In English. |
| Source of Description, Etc. Note: | Source of description: Online resource; title from PDF title page (Site, viewed 02/02/2021) |