Understanding police use of force : officers, suspects, and reciprocity / Geoffrey P. Alpert, Roger G. Dunham.
This book examines the use of force by police officers. It includes a brief survey of prior research, and then goes on to present important new data and findings. The authors put forward a new conceptual framework, the Authority Maintenance Theory, for examining and assessing police use of force.
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| Language: | English |
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Cambridge ; New York :
Cambridge University Press,
2004.
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| Series: | Cambridge studies in criminology (Cambridge University Press)
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Table of 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.